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"Happiness is the twin sister of optimism and the twin brother of contentment." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or or not." »Fran Lebowitz
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"Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom." »William James
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"Pathos, piety, courage, — they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value." »E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924
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""Being a twin is like being born with a best friend."" »Tricia Marrapodi (1968-2008)
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""When a twin dies, the survivor's spirit goes with her."" »Kelly Marrapodi-Munsell (1968-2011)
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"All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin." »Lord Byron
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"I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Doubt is a feeling too lonely to know that faith is its twin." »Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
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"It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister." »Abigail Van Buren
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"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters." »Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
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"The echo began in some indescribable way to undermine her hold on life. Coming at a moment when she chanced to be fatigued, it had managed to murmur, 'Pathos, piety, courage -- they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.'" »Richard
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"I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle - so all is peace." »Edward Lear
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"Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles." »Marquis de Sade
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"Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time." »Marabel Morgan, The Electric Woman
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"Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality the other, a matter of time." »Marabel Morgan
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"It's not the burdens of everyday that drive men mad. It is the regret of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow. Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today." »Unknown
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"The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one." »H.L. Mencken
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"Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis." »Abraham Myerson
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