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• From this haunting feeling of being not wanted, which remained a recurrent haunt through life, I found two ways of escape, both of which in changing form also persisted. One was the invention of gods, the other was personal efficiency in work.

  Anna Louise Strong

  Feelings, Way, Haunting

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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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• Most American heroes of the Revolutionary period are by now two men, the actual man and the romantic image. Some are even three men - the actual man, the image, and the debunked remains.

  Esther Forbes

  Hero, Men, History

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• [On England:] In this country there are only two seasons, winter and winter.

  Shelagh Delaney

  Country, Winter, England

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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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• When two kids came along, I couldnt see how I could support them. The way it played out, I was away from the theatre for five years. I was a postie for the first part and then worked as an advertising copywriter, but I somehow found my way back.

  Peter Hambleton

  Kids, Years, Support

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• We French-Canadians belong to one country, Canada: Canada is for us the whole world: but the English-Canadians have two countries, one here and one across the sea.

  Wilfrid Laurier

  Country, Sea, World

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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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• Marlene Dietrich and Roy Rogers are the only two living humans who should be allowed to wear black leather pants.

  Edith Head

  Leather Pants, Clothes, Black

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

  Sue Grafton

  Artist, Mystery, Magician

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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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• I make up the characters in my books, but of course my consciousness is filled with every child I've ever known, including my two grandchildren, my own kids (I had four) and especially myself as a child, because that person still lives inside me, too.

  Lois Lowry

  Children, Book, Character

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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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• 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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• Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep their balance in both the ordinary and the non-ordinary worlds.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Medicine, Two Worlds, Ordinary World

  Paula Gunn Allen (1991). “Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook”, Beacon Press (MA)

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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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• There's a couple of universal principles in life. One is, don't ever open a restaurant. One out of every two fails.

  Susan Powter

  Couple, Principles, Failing

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

  Jane Alexander

  Creative, Endeavor

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