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• It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from human power; the other, the image it bears of the natural creation.

  John Ruskin

  Character, Bears, Architecture

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.94

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• The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush; there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same network, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike.

  John Ruskin

  Nature, Sea, Tree

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters”, p.55

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• There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.

  Rebecca West

  Kind, Imperialism, Bloody

  Rebecca West (2011). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17”, p.4, Open Road Media

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• Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.

  Betty Smith

  People, Quarrels

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• What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Thinking, People, Together

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Ordinary, Anarchy, Produce

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only possible between two or three. As soon as there are six or seven, collective language begins to dominate. That is why it is a complete misinterpretation to apply to the Church the words 'Wheresoever two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.' Christ did not say two hundred, or fifty, or ten. He said two or three.

  Simone Weil

  Intimate Conversation, Names, Church

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.19, Routledge

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• Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.

  Simone Weil

  Men, Deny

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.151, Routledge

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• In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

  Mary Oliver

  Fire, Ability To Love, Given

  Mary Oliver (2000). “Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The ocean is a place of paradoxes. It is the home of the great white shark, two-thousand-pound killer of the seas, and of the hundred-foot blue whale, the largest animal that ever lived. It is also the home of living things so small that your two hands might scoop up as many of them as there are stars in the Milky Way.

  Rachel Carson

  Stars, Ocean, Home

  Rachel Carson (2011). “Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson”, p.6, Beacon Press

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• Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

  Saint Augustine

  Reputation, Dues, Neighbour

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• If I am going up a ladder, and a dog begins to bite at my ankles, I can do one of two things - either turn round and kick out at the it, or simply go on up the ladder. I prefer to go up the ladder!

  Maria Montessori

  Dog, Challenges, Ankles

  MARIA MONTESSORI “HER LIFE AND WORK”

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• The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.

  John Green

  People, House, United States

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• Sexuality is important, but it's certainly not the most interesting or important thing happening to you right now. We live in a world that tells us that there are only two important things. One is the acquisition of goods and the other is either the acquisition or avoidance of sex, but it turns out that the question of who's a virgin and who's a virgout is not the most interesting question.

  John Green

  Sex, Interesting, Important

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• We consider a prisoner unfortunate. He is unfortunate in two ways-because he has done something wrong and because he is deprived of his liberty. Therefore we should treat him kindly, because of his misfortune, for otherwise he would become hard and bitter and would not be sorry he had done wrong.

  L. Frank Baum

  Sorry, Liberty, Done

  L. Frank Baum (2013). “Oz, the Complete Collection Volume 3 bind-up: The Patchwork Girl of Oz; Tik-Tok of Oz; The Scarecrow of Oz”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.

  Isaac Watts

  Mind, Three, Dry

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• Sometimes, with luck, we find the kind of true friend, male or female, that appears only two or three times in a lucky lifetime, one that will winter us and summer us, grieve, rejoice, and travel with us.

  Barbara Holland

  Friendship, Summer, True Friend

  Barbara Holland (1996). “One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone”

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• Recreational talking is, along with private singing, one of our saddest recent losses. Like singing, talking has become a job for trained professionals, who are paid considerable sums of money to do it on television and radio while we sit silently listening or, if we're truly lonely and determined, call the station and sit holding the phone waiting for a chance to contribute our two cents' worth.

  Barbara Holland

  Lonely, Jobs, Loss

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• There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.

  Hannah More

  Evil, World, Sin

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• Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from an empty one you can gather nothing.

  Hannah More

  Evil, May, Want

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.474

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• The very thing about people that makes the human race interesting is also the thing that makes it so hard to get anything done without the most horrible confusions: no two people think exactly the same way about anything.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Thinking, Race, People

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.283, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about each other, the rest is decoration and prejudice.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Knowledge, People, Prejudice

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.667, Library of America

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• Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Trying, Energy, Thirds

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.116, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• There are three signs of old age: loss of memory ... I forget the other two.

  Red Skelton

  Memories, Humorous, Loss

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• No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled.

  Francoise Sagan

  Bed, Wells, Behave

  "Scars on the Soul". Book by Françoise Sagan, translated by Joanna Kilmartin, 1974.

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