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• What did John Ashcroft say about moderates, he said, quote, there are two things you find in the middle of the road, a moderate and a dead skunk and I don't want to be either.

  John Ashcroft

  Two, Want, Middle

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• We must do something about the cross, and there’s only one of two things we can do- flee it or die upon it!

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Two, Crosses, Can Do

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• You should never do two things. You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn't do that; I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone.

  Brion Gysin

  Two, Nails, Hammers

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• That gut-wrenching feeling of defeat I can still feel today. Losing and God are the two things that I fear. I fear no man

  Joe Calzaghe

  Men, Two, Feelings

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• There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can’t remember what the second one is.

  Mark Hanna

  Two, Important, Firsts

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• Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once.

  Lesley Howarth

  Two, Maps, Way

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• To be right, a person must do one of two things: either he must learn to have God in his work and hold fast to him there, or he must give up his work altogether. Since, however, we cannot live without activities that are both human and various, we must learn to keep God I everything we do, and whatever the job or place, keep on with him, letting nothing stand in our way.

  Meister Eckhart

  Jobs, Giving Up, Two

  Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

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• You seeyou can beat a dog and it's going to do one of two things..it's gonna roll over and die or it's going to bite you and attack you. And I'm the kind of person..uh..whose the type of dog that will bite back..I wasn't going to roll over and die

  Mike Katz

  Dog, Two, Kind

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• For the most part I'll probably do floor exercise and balance beam. Those are the two things that I do.

  Shannon Miller

  Exercise, Two, Balance

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• Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

  Warren Spahn

  Games, Two, Magic

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• There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

  Stephen Leacock

  Two, People, Ordinary

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.82, University of Toronto Press

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• Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition

  A. R. Ammons

  Teaching, Reading, Class

  A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Two, Use, Unix

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• What I need to do is have a great positive attitude and a great work ethic. Those two things validate me. Yes, it's important that I have good numbers, and I'm well-respected as a player. But I think it's more important that I'm respected as a man.

  David Robinson

  Sports, Respect, Attitude

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• The Lord will always prepare a way for you to escape from the trials you will be given if you understand two things. One is that you need to be on the Lord's errand. The second thing you need to understand is that the escape will almost never be out of the trial; it will usually be through it.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Two, Understanding, Preparation

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• I well remember it being said to me by an occultist of great experience that two things are necessary for safety in occultism, right motives and right associates.

  Dion Fortune

  Two, Safety, Remember

  Dion Fortune (2016). “Psychic self-defense: The Classic Instruction Manual for Protecting Yourself Against Paranormal Attack”, p.86, Dion Fortune

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• The first rule of style is to have something to say. The second rule of style is to control yourself when, by chance, you have two things to say; say first one, then the other, not both at the same time.

  George Polya

  Two, Style, Firsts

  George Pólya (1948). “How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method”

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• There are two things that really get under Gary Neville's skin: scousers and policemen.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.

  Juvenal

  Military, Men, Long Ago

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• Men of genius are not to be analysed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.

  Robert Menzies

  Men, Thinking, Two

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• There are two things that if you do them you will attain the good of this world and the hereafter; [They are] that you bear what you dislike if it is beloved to Allah and you leave what you like if it is disliked by Allah.

  Ibn Hazm

  Two, World, Bears

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• Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals, the two things seem to go together, it is a pathology it is a sickness.

  Pat Roberts

  Two, People, Together

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• There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority, and control – your mind and your mouth.

  Molefi Kete Asante

  Two, Mind, Mouths

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• Perhaps five or even ten per cent of men can do something rather well. It is a tiny minority who can do anything really well, and the number of men who can do two things well is negligible. If a man has any genuine talent, he should be ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate it to the full.

  G. H. Hardy

  Sacrifice, Men, Order

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.68, Cambridge University Press

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• I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.

  Darrell Issa

  Government, Two, Reform

  "Darrell Issa Asks Business: Tell Me What To Change" by Nick Wing, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2011.

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