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• Before you can give of yourself to others you must know what of yourself you have to give. Every person is special. In all the land there is only one you, possibly two, but seldom more than sixteen.

  Amy Sedaris

  Land, Giving, Special

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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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• Life is a breathing-space between two eternities, a holiday with appalling realities behind and before.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Life, Holiday, Reality

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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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• 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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• 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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• When it comes to food, there are two large categories of eaters, those who do not worry about what they eat but should, and those who do worry about what they eat but should not.

  Carol Tavris

  Food, Worry, Eating

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• Other problems confront women in power. One is fine but two's a crowd seems to be an unspoken rule when the one wears a skirt. And those in authority have found ways to reward women for excluding others of their kind.

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Power, Rewards, Way

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• Prayer is naught else but a yearning of soul ... it draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up to the plenitude of God; it brings together these two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.

  Mechthild of Magdeburg

  Prayer, Heart, Soul

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• Those who make pictures of the Savior, who is God as well as man in one inseparable person, either limit the incomprehensible Godhead to the bounds of created flesh, or confound his two natures like Eutyches, or separate them, like Nestorius, or deny his Godhead, like Arius; and those who worship such a picture are guilty of the same heresy and blasphemy.

  Philip Schaff

  Men, Flesh, Limits

  Philip Schaff (1885). “The History of the Christian Church (Complete)”, p.3126, Library of Alexandria

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• I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.

  Bette Midler

  War, Thinking, People

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• In the training process, the teacher addresses two sides of your being. One is the tonal and one is the nagual.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Two Sides

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• The aim ... is to provide a clear and rigorous basis for determining when a causal ordering can be said to hold between two variables or groups of variables in a model . . . . The concepts refer to a model-a system of equations-and not to the 'real' world the model purports to describe.

  Herbert Simon

  Real, Groups, World

  Herbert Alexander Simon (1957). “Models of man: social and rational; mathematical essays on rational human behavior in society setting”

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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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• 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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• Rising seas create a higher baseline for future storm surges. The New York City Panel on Climate Change has projected that coastal waters may rise by two feet by 2050 and four feet by the end of the century.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  New York, Sea, Cities

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• I could not tell Himmler everything because he was too false and two-faced.

  Walter Schellenberg

  Himmler

  Letter to Leon Goldensohn. Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004, March 13, 1946.

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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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• The free electoral process is one of the things that outsiders envy most about this country. The distinctly American two-party system is perpetuated through that process.

  Robert A. Agresta

  Country, Party, Envy

  Inauguration Speech at the Mayor & Council Meeting, January 2009.

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• Most of the world's major waterways have been diverted or dammed or otherwise manipulated - in the United States, only two per cent of rivers run unimpeded - and people now use half the world's readily accessible freshwater runoff.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Running, Rivers, People

  "The Sixth Extinction?" by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.newyorker.com. May 25, 2009.

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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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• No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases, could have written the two "Alice" books.

  Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

  Book, Phrases, Use

  "The Lewis Carroll Picture Book". Book by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, 1899.

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• Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces.
  Realism was the death of art.
  Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.

  Arthur Wesley Dow

  Art, Space, Lines

  "Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers" by Arthur Wesley Dow, Boston, 1899.

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• there are only two basic ways of structuring the relations between the female and male halves of humanity. All societies are patterned on either a dominator model - in which human hierarchies are ultimately backed up by force or the threat of force - or a partnership model, with variations in between.

  Riane Eisler

  Humanity, Males, Female

  Riane Tennenhaus Eisler (1987). “The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future”, Harpercollins

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