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• I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.

  John Scalzi

  Army, Two, Wife

  John Scalzi (2014). “Old Man's War Boxed Set I”, p.12, Macmillan

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• My ma says You can't unspill a stew." "She also says Undoing a wrong is greater than doing a right." "You know, Ma is very good at saying two things at once.

  Shannon Hale

  Two, Undoing, Stew

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Princess Academy: Palace of Stone”, p.205, A&C Black

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• How was it possible to be afraid and in love... The two things did not go together. How was it possible to be afraid, when the two of them grew stronger together every day? And every night. Every night was different, and every morning. Together they possessed a miracle.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Morning, Night, Two

  Patricia Highsmith (2015). “The Price of Salt: (Illustrated Edition)”, p.221, She Winked Press

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• I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Giving Up, Two, Balance

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• There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Baby, Children, Wings

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• I do plan on saying one or two things to him when we're allowed an hour for goodbyes. To let him know how essential he's been to me all these years. How better my life has been for knowing him." -Katniss Everdeen

  Suzanne Collins

  Goodbye, Years, Two

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• I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasnt going to change unless I made it change.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Two, Made, Made It

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• You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed.

  Julian Barnes

  Two, Together, World

  "Levels of Life". Book by Julian Barnes, 2013.

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• Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Two, Development, World

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.119, Westminster John Knox Press

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• You need demarcation." "Demarcation?" I asked. "It means a clear separation between two things," he told me. "A solid end before a clean beginning. No murky borders. Clarity.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mean, Two, Needs

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.105, Penguin

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• If you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger, better of the two wins.

  Ann Patchett

  Love You, Winning, Two

  Jenna Blum, Maggie O'Farrell, Molly Gloss, Nicole Mones, Elizabeth Benedict (2010). “The Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels”, p.1170, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen

  Jojo Moyes

  Jobs, Two, Make Me Happy

  Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.204, Penguin

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• It looked exhausting and pointless, two things that should be avoided at all costs

  Daniel Handler

  Two, Cost, Should

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• There are only two things that can screw this up for us: you and me." "Then we're doomed for sure.

  Ilona Andrews

  Two, Screws, Doomed

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.245, Penguin

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• New Rule: Food companies must face the facts: One container equals one serving. Look, we’re Americans, and that means once we open the bag, there’s no stopping us until we’re licking stray bits of powdered cheese off the carpet. So stop trying to give us nutritional information based on a fraction of the package. It assumes a talent for two things that we’re really not capable of: restraint and math.

  Bill Maher

  Mean, Math, Two

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.196, Penguin

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• If the same object from two different times touches itself, one of two things will happen. Either the Universe will cease to exist. Or three remarkable dwarfs will dance through the streets with flowerpots on their heads.

  Neil Gaiman

  Two, Different, Three

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “Fortunately, the Milk...”, p.74, A&C Black

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• There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Time, Years, Two

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.153

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• There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"

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• Maybe the reason my memory is so bad is that I always do at least two things at once. It's easier to forget something you only half-did or quarter did.

  Andy Warhol

  Happiness, Memories, Two

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.212, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Happiness, it seems to me, consists of two things: first, in being where you belong, and second -- and best -- in comfortably going through everyday life, that is, having had a good night's sleep and not being hurt by new shoes.

  Theodor Fontane

  Happiness, Good Night, Hurt

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• As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

  Adelle Davis

  Motivational, Health, Two

  Adelle Davis (1970). “Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt”

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• When things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics

  Victor Frederick Weisskopf

  Music, Two, Tough

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• Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.

  Simeon Denis Poisson

  Life, Teaching, Science

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• You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, you might be sexier than me, you might be all of those things you got it on me in nine categories. But if we get on the treadmill together, there are two things: You're getting off first, or I'm going to die. It's really that simple, right?

  Will Smith

  Life, Simple, Two

  "Actor-musician Will Smith". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. December 13, 2007.

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• Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships.

  Robert Breault

  Love, Marriage, Two

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