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• You know, I can see two tiny pictures of myself And there's one in each of your eyes. And they're doin' everything I do. Every time I light a cigarette, they light up theirs. I take a drink and I look in and they're drinkin' too. It's drivin' me crazy. It's drivin' me nuts.

  Laurie Anderson

  Crazy, Eye, Light

  "Laurie Anderson". Book by RoseLee Goldberg and Laurie Anderson, 2000.

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• I want now to be of today. It is painful to be conscious of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness.

  Mary Antin

  World, Want, Today

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• Frankly, I've come to feel that there are two kinds of people: those who act like thermometers and those who act like thermostats.

  Arlene Francis

  People, Kind, Thermometers

  Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”

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• Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.

  Sissela Bok

  Deception, Deceit, Violence

  Sissela Bok (2011). “Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life”, p.54, Vintage

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• Nonviolent actions are by their nature androgynous. In them the two impulses that have long been treated as distinct, 'masculine' and 'feminine,' the impulse of self-assertion and the impulse of sympathy, are clearly joined; the very genius of nonviolence, in fact, is that it demonstrates them to be indivisible, and so restores human community.

  Barbara Deming

  Self, Masculine And Feminine, Long

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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• Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.

  John Stott

  Persecution, Clash, Value Systems

  John R. W. Stott, Dale Larsen, Sandy Larsen (1998). “The Beatitudes: Developing Spiritual Character”, Intervarsity Press

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• I know a lot of people didn't expect our relationship to last - but we've just celebrated our two months' anniversary.

  Britt Ekland

  People, Lasts, Months

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• Long ago the word alone was treated as two words, all one. To be all one meant to be wholly one, to be in oneness, either essentially or temporarily. That is precisely the goal of solitude, to be all one.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Long Ago, Oneness, Goal

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• A two-career couple with children is a complex, sensitive piece of machinery with lots of moving parts. Anything less than total cooperation will throw it out of whack and shut it down. A couple can wind up paying the ultimate price for trying to have it all - losing it all.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Children, Couple, Moving

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!”, Pocket

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• any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.

  Sue Grafton

  Artist, Mystery, Magician

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• I know some good old gals in their 50s and 60s. All these women tell me, 'Forty to 50. Those are the hot times.' So far, you couldn't prove it by me. But hell, I'm only two years in.

  Lauren Hutton

  Years, Hot, Hell

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• the two major parties too often present us with a choice of the evil of two lessers.

  Patricia Ireland

  Party, Evil, Choices

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• Except two breeds - the stupid and the narrowly feline - all women have a touch of the Lesbian: an assertion all good non-analytic creatures refute with horror, but quite true: there is always the poignant intensive personal taste, the flair of inner-sex, in the tenderest friendships of women.

  Mary MacLane

  Sex, Stupid, Taste

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.514, Petrarca Press

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• the Irish ... are full of the fear of the Lord and the joy of living, and they don't know how to combine the two, but they'll sure have a good time trying.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Joy, Trying, Good Times

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• after a generation or two of shedding the deliberate political encumbrances to war ... of dropping Congress from the equation altogether, of super-empowering the presidency with total war-making power and with secret new war-making resources that answer to no one but him, of insulating the public from not only the cost of war but sometimes even the knowledge that it's happened - war making has become almost an autonomous function of the American state. It never stops.

  Rachel Maddow

  War, Political, Empowering

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• The world of money, of numbers and stock markets and interest rates and credit cards, seems on the surface about as far as it could be from the world of spirituality, of seeking meaningful answers to the big questions of life. ... But these two worlds must flow in and out of each other, because it takes both money and spiritual understanding to sustain it. Truly speaking, what determines where our money with its awesome power will go, and what it will do for ourselves and others? If we listen, those answers come from the center of our being, from who we really are.

  Suze Orman

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Money

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• Social climbing and power climbing -- the two are often synonymous -- are what make Washington run. ... If there are more than two people together, if there are three, one of them is climbing.

  Sally Quinn

  Running, Climbing, People

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• In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate governments. Hence a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself.

  James Madison

  America, Rights, Government

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.256, Coventry House Publishing

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• There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.

  Ruth Rendell

  Women, Taken, Age

  Ruth Rendell (2010). “A Sleeping Life: (A Wexford Case)”, p.25, Random House

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• We've lost half the summer sea ice in the Arctic. We've wiped out an enormous percentage of the world's coral reefs. We see huge changes in the planet's hydrology already, the cycles of drought and flood both amped up because warm air holds more water vapor than cold. These things are happening with a one-degree increase and going to two degrees won't be twice as bad, the increase in damage won't be linear, it most certainly will be exponential. So it was precisely the wrong moment to elect Trump.

  Bill McKibben

  Summer, Ice, Sea

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  People, Fifty, Hundred

  Wislawa Szymborska (2002). “Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska”, p.99, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide. Long ago it washed out Homer's. Curiosity follows him in vain; Greece and Asia perplex us with a rival Stratford-upon-Avon. The rank of Aristophanes is only conjectured from his gift to two poor players in Athens. The age made no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest son, passed away.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Son, Player, Greatness

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• Everybody likes to gossip. But it can be a little scary to have people knowing secrets about me when I don't know anything about them. It's not exactly a two-way street there.

  Ally Sheedy

  Knowing, People, Gossip

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• You know, we've been married for 22 years ... and I have learned a long time ago that the only people who count in any marriage are the two that are in it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Marriage, Years, Long

  Interview, NBC Today Show, 27 Jan. 1998

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• There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something, then disseminating it.

  Jane Alexander

  Creative, Endeavor

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