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• Unlimited enmity of the Albanian people against Serbia is the foremost real result of the Albanian policies of the Serbian government. The second and more dangerous result is the strengthening of two big powers in Albania, which have the greatest interests in the Balkans.

  Dimitrije Tucovic

  Real, Government, People

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• For much of the Internet, the shortest path between two points doesn't exist.

  Kevin Poulsen

  Path, Internet

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• Our lives consist of two numbers: date of birth and date of death.

  Javad Alizadeh

  Numbers, Birth, Our Lives

  "Humor & Caricature magazine". October 1995.

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• Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Ideas, Needs, Moments

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• No human being can destroy the structure of a marriage except the two who made it. It is the one human edifice that is impregnable except from within.

  Gwen Bristow

  Structure, Made, Humans

  GWEN BRISTOW (1971). “GWEN BRISTOW, TOMORROW IS FOREVER”

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• There are two kinds of trouble: The kind you have and the kind you haven't. There are but few of the first sort, but of the second there is no end.

  Sophie Irene Loeb

  Firsts, Kind, Trouble

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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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• does one ever say the same thing in the same way to two different people?

  Naomi Mitchison

  People, Way, Doe

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• For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble.

  Hadewijch

  Sweet, Noble, Stranger

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• There are two types of people in the world: those who think everyone needs therapy, and those who have never been.

  Jenny Mollen

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Jenny Mollen (2014). “I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People”, p.29, St. Martin's Press

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• The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that it constitutes and reveals them as classes.

  Monique Wittig

  Struggle, Class, Contradiction

  Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)

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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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• for every person who's stepped out of line and lived to regret it, there are two people who stayed in line because they got their values mixed and lost their nerve, and who have lived to regret it still more. You don't hear about those people because they're still in line where they don't show.

  Gwethalyn Graham

  Regret, People, Risk

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• ... the fishermen of Port Sonas care only for the two things, fishing and women. And there's some that are no' that keen on the fishing.

  Naomi Mitchison

  Fishing, Care, Fisherman

  Naomi Mitchison (1997). “Lobsters on the Agenda”, Birlinn Publishers

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• At one time or another the more fortunate among us make three startling discoveries. Discovery number one: Each one of us has, in varying degree, the power to make others feel better or worse. Discovery two: Making others feel better is much more fun than making them feel worse. Discovery three: Making others feel better generally makes us feel better.

  Laura Huxley

  Fun, Kindness, Feel Better

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• Oh! mothers aren't fair - I mean it's not fair of nature to weigh us down with them and yet expect us to be our own true selves. The handicap's too great. All those months, when the same blood's running through two sets of veins - there's no getting away from that, ever after. Take yours. As I say, does she need to open her mouth? Not she! She's only got to let it hang at the corners, and you reek, you drip with guilt.

  Henry Handel Richardson

  Mother, Running, Mean

  Henry Handel Richardson (pseud.) (1934). “The End of a Childhood”

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• What do you call it when two people have intense shared history? when nothing can separate them? Soul Sisters

  Susane Colasanti

  People, Soul, Intense

  Susane Colasanti (2010). “Something Like Fate”, p.16, Penguin

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• I would like to become the prime minister, do the job for two years, and then leave and devote myself to public work.

  Bidzina Ivanishvili

  Jobs, Years, Prime

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• the house protects the dreamer; the houses that are important to us are the ones that allow us to dream in peace. Guests we've had stop in for a night or two all come down the first morning, ready to tell their dreams.

  Frances Mayes

  Dream, Morning, Night

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• Will it be said that the judgment of a male of two years old, is more sage than that of a female's of the same age? I believe the reverse is generally observed to be true. But from that period what partiality! how is the one exalted, and the other depressed, by the contrary modes of education which are adopted! the one is taught to aspire, and the other is early confined and limited. As their years increase, the sister must be wholly domesticated, while the brother is led by the hand through all the flowery paths of science.

  Judith Sargent Murray

  Brother, Believe, Hands

  Judith Sargent Murray, Sharon M. Harris (1995). “Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray”, p.6, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• There are too many unpredictable things that can happen within two months. To me, the ideal trade lasts ten days, but I approach every trade as if I'm only going to hold it two or three days.

  Linda Bradford Raschke

  Unpredictable Things, Lasts, Months

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• What I would argue is that real spirituality is the ability to keep encountering two opposite thoughts at the same time and still maintain some kind of morality and perspective in the world. It is not the elimination of one side of the equation or the elimination of what you don't like; it is the investigation of everything.

  Eve Ensler

  Real, Opposites, Perspective

  Interview with Carolyn Roark, www.ecumenicajournal.org. February 16, 2016.

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• I'm proud of the two adjectives, superficial and frivolous.

  Jeanloup Sieff

  Adjectives, Proud, Superficial

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• I want to show off how beautiful my subjects are, whether its a cheetah or a live girl or two of them together.

  Bunny Yeager

  Beautiful, Girl, Together

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• Well, it looks like John Boehner will be the new Speaker of the House. He is the son of a bartender, one of 12 children. He grew up in a two room home with just one bathroom, worked his way through school, became the first person in his family to graduate from college. And, sadly, fell in with the wrong crowd and wound up in Congress.

  Jay Leno

  Children, Home, School

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