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• was revolution much more than one fast kick forward in the long process called evolution? We condemened the 'cost' of revolution; but was it higher than the cost over centuries in backward, underdeveloped communities, which still covered two-thirds of the earth and which still could not guarantee their populations daily bread?

  Ella Winter

  Long, Community, Population

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• The crisis in America that we barely notice anymore is that we've become two nations - divided by poverty, opportunity, and race. It's like a neighbor's car alarm that we don't hear anymore because it rings so often.

  Arianna Huffington

  Opportunity, America, Race

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• There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.

  John Tillotson

  Human Nature, Shame, Virtue

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• Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and rain.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Rain, Vines, Sacred

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• my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of which is the story I tell the reader, and the other the buried story I know and let slip now and then into a clue to whet the reader's interest.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Book, Stories, Mystery Novels

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1957). “The Mary Roberts Rinehart crime book”

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• The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too much sentiment.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Sex, Fiction, Too Much

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• when two people unite, kindness must be mutual, or shocking things will happen.

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Kindness, People, Mutual

  Rosamond Lehmann (1975). “The ballad and the source”, Harvest Books

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• The English have no imagination: and yet they do show imagination in two things - two only. In the evening-clothes worn by old ladies, and in their cafés.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Clothes, Imagination, Evening

  Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (1989). “The Little Virtues”, p.24, Arcade Publishing

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• There are literally billions of people on the planet who live in an unimaginable poverty that's not in any way different from the plight of the people in Orchid. And you can't have the splendor of Rodeo Drive without the sweatshops of Indonesia; those two things go hand in hand.

  Tom Morello

  Hands, Orchids, People

  Interview with Robin Grearson, logger.believermag.com. August 27, 2013.

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• When two working people decide to marry, their federal income tax is usually increased. As soon as one spouse earns at least 20 percent of a married couple's total income, the couple pays a 'marriage tax.' ... The United States is the only major industrialized nation in the free world in which the tax cost of the second [married] earner's entry into the work force is higher than that of the first. On one hand, our government's social policy is to help working women earn equal salaries to those of men, but on the other we have a tax structure that penalizes them when they do so.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Couple, Men, Hands

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• To get that word, male, out of the Constitution, cost the women of this country fifty-two years of pauseless campaign; 56 state referendum campaigns; 480 legislative campaigns to get state suffrage amendments submitted; 47 state constitutional convention campaigns; 277 state party convention campaigns; 30 national party convention campaigns to get suffrage planks in the party platforms; 19 campaigns with 19 successive Congresses to get the federal amendment submitted, and the final ratification campaign.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Country, Party, Equality

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• Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me,' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.' A woman I know says, for her morning prayer, 'Whatever,' and then for the evening, 'Oh, well,' but has conceded that these prayers are more palatable for people without children.

  Anne Lamott

  Morning, Prayer, Children

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.75, Anchor

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• But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for more, which is not even temporarily pleasurable. Which then leads to deterioration of the faculties of both body and mind; plus a bewildering lack of co-operation between the two.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Lying, True Evil, Leaving

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• There is a brotherliness about a drinking person, which is coldly lacking in the straight and narrow enemies of drink; the difference between the two is more marked than nationality or belief: it is an opposite species altogether. It is against the unwritten laws of congeniality for them to mix. For me, a man who does not drink is distinctly indecent.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Drinking, Men, Law

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• Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

  Edith Hamilton

  Truth, Reality, Connections

  Edith Hamilton (1949). “Spokesmen for God: The Great Teachers of the Old Testament”

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• In the United States, as elsewhere, there are, and have always been, two parties in politics ... It is remarkable how nearly their positive statements of political doctrine agree, while they differ in almost every possible application of their common principles.

  Harriet Martineau

  Party, Political, Principles

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• Two generations ago only a few unfortunate children ever saw anyone hit over the head with a brick, shot, rammed by a car, blown up, immolated, raped or tortured. Now all children, along with their elders, see such images every day of their lives and are expected to enjoy them. ... The seven-year-old who hides his eyes in the family cops-and-robbers drama is desensitized four years later to a point where he crunches potato chips through the latest video nasty.

  Penelope Leach

  Children, Drama, Eye

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• Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people - the autobiographists and the biographists.

  Stella Benson

  Thinking, People, Kind

  Stella Benson (1924). “Pipers and a dancer”

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• I do apologize for writing by hand - and so badly. I shall soon be like Helen Thomas, notoriously illegible. In her last letter only two words stood out plain: 'Blood pressure.' Subsequent research demonstrated that what she had actually written was 'Beloved friends.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Writing, Blood, Hands

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• I'm afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you want to be wholly in the world you are writing about, that it would take two days to get the visitor's voice out of the house so that you could listen to your own characters again?

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Photography, Hurt, Writing

  Margaret Bourke-White (2016). “Portrait of Myself”, p.331, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Only two things are real to me: my love and my death. In between them, I merely exist as a scatter of senses.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Real, Two Things, Senses

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1994). “The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Virago Pr

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• It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato salad improves with age - that is, if you are lucky enough to have any left over.

  Laurie Colwin

  Wise, Food, Cooking

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• Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight.

  Elizabeth I

  Strong, May, Bows

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.262, University of Chicago Press

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• The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways -- through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.

  Kenneth Kaunda

  War, Drama, Brutality

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• [To the mother of two unruly children in a restaurant after the woman said she really didn't know what to do with her children:] Have you tried infanticide?

  Joan Crawford

  Mother, Children, Restaurants

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