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• You can predict a person?s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.

  Earl Nightingale

  Teamwork, Book, Two

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• Well, we're grasping for two things at once. Partly for communion with others - that's the deepest instinct in us. And partly, we're seeking security. By constant communion with others we hope we shall be able to accept the horrible fact of our total solitude.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Two, Solitude, Able

  "Bergman on Bergman: Interviews with Ingmar Bergman" by Stig Bjorkman, Torsten Manns, Jonas Sima, translated by Paul Britten Austin, 1973.

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• Actually, I have only two things to worry about now: afterlife and reincarnation.

  Gail Parent

  Two, Afterlife, Worry

  Gail Parent (2004). “Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York”, p.135, The Overlook Press

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• One of two things is usually lacking in the so-called Philosophy of Art: either philosophy or art.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Philosophy, Two

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• I wanted to be sure that my donation did two things: went directly into the hands of hurricane victims and that it was an amount that could really impact their lives and make a difference.

  Dr. Dre

  Impact, Hands, Two

  "For the record: quick news on Nick and Jessica, Dr.Dre, Green Day, Ashanti, Pitbull, Wyclef Jean & more". www.mtv.com. October 5, 2005.

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• I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to need and be with friends and the two things often need to be together... it's a painful conflict that will never be smoothly resolved.

  Morris Graves

  Secret Places, Two, Solitude

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• You can count on time for two things. One is that it will pass. The other is that it will never shut up.

  Bill Richardson

  Two, Shut Up

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• The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else. Efficiency and charm are mortal enemies, and Southern charm indubitably derives from a carelessness about the efficient aspects of life.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Mean, Civilization, Two

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• We must begin by acknowledging that there is a complete absence of two things in Indian Society. One of these is equality. On the social plane we have an India based on the principles of graded inequality, which means elevation for some and degradation for others. On the economic plane we have a society in which there are some who have immense wealth as against many who live in abject poverty.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Mean, Two, Poverty

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• My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me my first go-kart and a magician's kit.

  Fernando Alonso

  Two, Parent, Magic

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• I never get nervous. Baseball consists of two things: hitting and pitching, and we've got both.

  Carl Pohlad

  Baseball, Two, Hitting

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• I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to, death or liberty."

  Harriet Tubman

  Ideas, Two, Liberty

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• There are two things that I want you to make up your minds to: first, that you are going to have a good time as long as you live - I have no use for the sour-faced man - and next, that you are going to do something worthwhile, that you are going to work hard and do the things you set out to do.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Hard Work, Men, Two

  Theodore Roosevelt (1995). “A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children”, Random House Incorporated

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• At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.

  Matthew Arnold

  Christian, Eye, Men

  Matthew Arnold (1875). “God & the Bible: A Review of Objections to 'Literature & Dogma'”, p.14

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• You're missing it. This is not a one-man show. What's reinvigorating this company is two things: One, there's a lot of really talented people in this company who listened to the world tell them they were losers for a couple of years, and some of them were on the verge of starting to believe it themselves. But they're not losers. What they didn't have was a good set of coaches, a good plan. A good senior management team. But they have that now.

  Steve Jobs

  Senior, Business, Couple

  "Steve Jobs: `There's Sanity Returning'". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. May 23, 1998.

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• There are two things that have to happen before an idea catches on. One is that the idea should be good. The other is that it should fit in with the temper of the age. If it does not, even a good idea may well be passed by.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Ideas, Two, Age

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• The 4th of July combines the two things Americans love most in one day: alcohol and explosives.

  David Letterman

  4th Of July, Two, Alcohol

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• Two things you need to know about taxes. They've extended the deadline to April 18, and when you write your check, just make it out to China.

  David Letterman

  Writing, Two, Needs

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• I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity.

  Boris Trajkovski

  Peace, Two, People

  "Man of Vision". Interview with Sam Vaknin, samvak.tripod.com.

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• There is two things that can disrupt business in this country. One is War, and the other is a meeting of the Federal Reserve Bank.

  Will Rogers

  Country, War, Two

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• With old inflation riding the headlines, I have read till I am bleary-eyed, and I can't get head from tails of the whole thing. ... Now we are living in an age of explanations-and plenty of 'em, too-but no two things that's been done to us have been explained twice the same way, by even the same man. It's and age of in one ear and out the other.

  Will Rogers

  Science, Men, Two

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• In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of ourselves; it's like breathing in and breathing out. And if you can only get to know the world by stepping out, and losing yourself in experience, you can only get to know the self by stepping back, and finding yourself in contemplation. One without the other leads to a kind of madness.

  Pico Iyer

  Motivational, Self, Breathing

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• There are two things that you have to do in life: You have to die, and you have to live until you die. The rest is up to you.

  Urijah Faber

  Mma, Two, Up To You

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• ...from this day forward until the day you are buried, do two things each day. First, master a difficult old insight, and second, add some new piece of knowledge to the world each day.

  Edwin Land

  Thinking, Two, Add

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• There's two things you need to know. One, that you won't quit on yourself, and two, that I've done the work.

  Forrest Griffin

  Mma, Two, Needs

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