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• A person who has no secrets is a liar. We always fold ourselves away from others just enough to preserve a secret or two, something that we cannot share without destroying our inner landscape.

  Anne Roiphe

  Liars, Secret, Landscape

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• In view of my services in Africa, I have the chance of dying by poison. Two generals have brought it with them. It is fatal in three seconds. If I take the poison, none of the usual steps will be taken against my family; that is, against you. They will also leave my staff alone.

  Erwin Rommel

  Taken, Views, Dying

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• And looking into the face of ... one dead man we see two dead, the man and the life of the woman who gave him birth; the life she wrought into his life! And looking into his dead face someone asks a woman, what does a woman know about war? What, what, friends in the face of a crime like that, what does man know about war?

  Anna Howard Shaw

  War, Men, Doe

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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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• 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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• A white woman has only one handicap to overcome - that of sex. I have two - both sex and race. ... Colored men have only one - that of race. Colored women are the only group in this country who have two heavy handicaps to overcome, that of race as well as that of sex.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Country, Sex, Men

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• Personally, I think any more than two or three kids is not a family, it's a litter.

  Tracey Ullman

  Kids, Thinking, Three

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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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• There are two kinds of power. One is power over, which is always destructive, and the other is power from within, which is a transcendent and creative power.

  Starhawk

  Creative, Kind, Destructive

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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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• Every family is a "normal" family- no matter whether it has one parent, two, or no children at all.

  Shere Hite

  Children, Parent, Matter

  Shere Hite (2011). “The Shere Hite Reader: New and Selected Writings on Sex, Globalism, and Private Life”, p.411, Seven Stories Press

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• Now we must remark, that there are two parts in the Commandment-the first forbids the erection of a graven image, or any likeness; the second prohibits the transferring of the worship which God claims for Himself alone, to any of these phantoms or delusive shows.

  John Calvin

  Phantoms, Firsts, Worship

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Law Vol. 2”, p.133, Jazzybee Verlag

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• After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality and voluptuousness as the chief good. Calumny may rest on genius a considerable part of a world's duration; what then is the value of fame?

  William Benton Clulow

  Philosophy, Years, Doctrine

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.413

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• ... one thing I've learned in caving is always to be two hundred percent sure.

  Caroline Llewellyn

  I've Learned, Hundred, Percent

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• I think of a book and a play, or a book and a movie, as two separate things - I don't think of it as my novel having a new life.

  Louis Sachar

  Book, Thinking, Play

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• Humor is the balance of the tonal. Within the tonal you've got reason and humor. The two balance each other so that the tonal can accept and understand the journeys into the nagual.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Journey, Balance

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• There are two worlds, the world of desire and the world of enlightenment. The world of enlightenment doesn't go anywhere. It is endless, luminous perfection. The world of desire leads to more desire.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfection, Suffering

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• Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we will also fail on the other.

  Nicholas Stern

  Two Sides, Challenges, Together

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• In fact, every child on earth born after June 23, 1988 belongs to what I call Generation Hot. This generation includes some two billion young people, all of whom have grown up under global warming and are fated to spend the rest of their lives confronting its mounting impacts.

  Mark Hertsgaard

  Children, Impact, June

  "Meet Generation Hot" by Mark Hertsgaard, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2010.

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• writing had to take the form of journalism. Not for me the Shangri-la of fiction. The rewards, if any, would have been too little and too late, the bailiffs were at the door. ... Two large bailiffs, they were, who visited frequently and smiled like grand pianos, the only really reliable men in my life. They told me what they were going to do and if they did it, woe was me.

  Jill Tweedie

  Writing, Men, Piano

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• There are two kinds of books in this world. One improves the mind, the other the bank balance. Sometimes they're the same -- but not often. Most publishers find combining the two is the only way to stay afloat.

  Paula Gosling

  Book, Mind, Balance

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• We know it (meat eating) is indisputably the number one cause of global warming. So what does it mean exactly to be an environmentalist on a daily basis if you are not thinking about the number one cause of global warming or one of the top two or three causes of all other environmental problems? Does it mean you are necessarily someone who doesn't care about the environment? Obviously not, but it might mean you have a blind spot for something big.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mean, Thinking, Blind Spots

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• I don't want to turn into one of those pathetic creatures who are always homesick, always saying I wish I were still in Beirut. I don't want to become like you, split between here and there. I know I'm not happy here, but why should I be unhappy in two countries?

  Hanan al-Shaykh

  Country, Wish, Unhappy

  Hanan al-Shaykh (2013). “Beirut Blues”, p.366, Anchor

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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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