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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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• With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan and cruelly try to jerk her forward two thousand years in two decades, giving no thought to the profound shock this must be to her national psychology.

  Dervla Murphy

  Country, Years, Giving

  Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.76, The Overlook Press

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• There are two phases of enjoyment in journeying through an unknown country - the eager phase of wondering interest in every detail, and the relaxed phase when one feels no longer an observer of the exotic, but a participator in the rhythm of daily life.

  Dervla Murphy

  Country, Details, Exotic

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• Mutability is the badge of infirmity. It is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days alike. Now he is for marrying; and now a mistress is preferred to a wife. Now he is ambitious and aspiring; presently the meanest servant is not more humble than he. This hour he squanders his money away; the next he turns miser. Sometimes he is frugal and serious; at other times profuse, airy, and gay.

  Pierre Charron

  Humble, Gay, Men

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• The day is divided into two important sections: Mealtimes and everything else.

  Merrill Markoe

  Important, Divided, Sections

  Merrill Markoe (1992). “What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned”, Viking Press

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• For nearly a century the psychoanalysts have been writing op-ed pieces about the workings of a country they've never traveled to, a place that, like China, has been off-limits. Suddenly, the country has opened its borders and is crawling with foreign correspondents, neurobiologists are filing ten stories a week, filled with new data. These two groups of writers, however, don't seem to read each other's work. That's because the analysts are writing about a country they call Mind and the neuroscientists are reporting from a country they call Brain.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Country, Writing, Data

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• Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast. I'm not talking about onset or duration. I mean the quality of the insanity, the day-to-day business of being nuts.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Mean, Talking, Nuts

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.75, Vintage

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• It takes two to make a woman into a sex object.

  Elaine Morgan

  Sex, Sexism, Objects

  Elaine Morgan (2011). “The Descent of Woman”, p.228, Souvenir Press

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• The art of leadership is a serious matter. One must not lag behind a movement, because to do so is to become isolated from the masses. But one must not rush ahead, for to rush ahead is to lose contact with the masses. He who wished to lead a movement must conduct a fight on two fronts--against those who lag behind and those who rush ahead.

  Joseph Stalin

  Leadership, Art, Fighting

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• Now, there are two ways to approach a subject that frightens you and makes you feel stupid: you can embrace it with humility and an open mind, or you can ridicule it mercilessly.

  Judith Stone

  Stupid, Learning, Ignorance

  Judith Stone (1991). “Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity”, Ballantine Books

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• There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.

  Molly Haskell

  Movie, Memories, Cinema

  Molly Haskell (2016). “From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition”, p.42, University of Chicago Press

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• Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

  Mary Stewart

  Party, Political, Greek

  Mary Stewart (2011). “This Rough Magic”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• I think we ought to have a new rule: You can ask two questions, and then we can pick the one we want to answer.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Thinking, Answers, Want

  Donald Rumsfeld, United States. Dept. of Defense. Historical Office (2001). “Public statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• One nourishes one's created characters with one's own substance: it's rather like the process of gestation. To give the character life, or to give him back life, it is of course necessary to fortify him by contributing something of one's own humanity, but it doesn't follow from that that the character is I, the writer, or that I am the character. The two entities remain distinct.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Character, Giving, Humanity

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• Southward, two mighty ranges of the Appalachians shouldered their way into the blue distance like tremendous caravans marching across eternity.

  Hervey Allen

  Distance, Book, Blue

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• Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Children, Vision, Brighter

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1986). “Teacher”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• ... of the two kinds of order, the conscious and the unconscious order, only one is real. It's the order in the deep hidden places.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Real, Order, Kind

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1986). “Teacher”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• So remember these two things: you are talented and you are original. Be sure of that. I say this because self-trust is one of the very most important things in writing.

  Brenda Ueland

  Writing, Self, Important

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• ... when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two people cannot go fast and keep tripping each other because their two legs are tied together.

  Brenda Ueland

  Thinking, Race, People

  Brenda Ueland (1939). “Me”

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• In the '80s, I thought I'd be a success as a woman if I were the president of a billion dollar company, had a sensitive soul-mate husband, two bilingual children, buns of steels, and a compost heap. In the '90s, I pretty much feel I'm a success if I can get through the afternoon without eating a cheesecake.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Children, Husband, Soul

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• When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Life And Death, Alternatives, Hesitation

  Tsunetomo Yamamoto (2001). “The Hagakure - The Way of the Samurai”, p.35, BoD – Books on Demand

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• there seem to be times of reception and times of creation and it is perhaps difficult not to confuse the two.

  Margaret Wise Brown

  Creativity, Creation, Difficult

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• On everything you need to hear other people's opinions. It's the only way to do things. You ask a friend's advice and then between the two of you things somehow get clearer.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  People, Advice, Needs

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• no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Self, Groups, Three

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• If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government?s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes them! It is such a fraud.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Mistake, Responsibility, Fighting

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