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• Two things a novelist can do with a hat: Talk through it or pull a rabbit from it.

  Peter S. Prescott

  Two, Novelists, Rabbits

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• Thank God, 50 years ago I learned that our entire business is all based on two things; a great song and a great story. Film, television, if you don't have that story, nothing else matters. You don't call anybody else or direct anybody. The same with a song. A great song can make the worst singer in the world a star.

  Quincy Jones

  Song, Stars, Years

  "Quincy Jones Recalls "Freaking Out" at Michael Jackson's Death and His Private Nickname for the Star". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2015.

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• Technology to me does two things: it increases the velocity of communication and increases the number of people who can participate. That's it. That's really all technology for our entire history has ever done.

  Jack Dorsey

  Communication, Technology, Two

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• There's two things I really like to do and that's whoop ass and look good. I'm doing one of them right now and on Saturday night, I'm doing the other.

  Conor McGregor

  Night, Ufc, Two

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• There are two things to do in Juneau, drink and get drunk.

  Chuck Thompson

  Two, Drunk, Drink

  Chuck Thompson (2007). “Smile When You're Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer”, p.15, Macmillan

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• When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.

  Alexander Calder

  Artist, Two, Fit

  Alexander Calder, A. S. C. Rower, Ugo Mulas, Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, Palazzo delle esposizioni (Rome, Italy) (2009). “Calder: Sculptor of Air”, 24 Ore Cultura

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• You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.

  C. S. Lewis

  Two, Firsts, Thirds

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “The Pilgrim's Regress”, p.67, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Two, Debt, Possession

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.103

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• Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.

  William Hazlitt

  Fashion, Two, Ends

  1818 'On Fashion', in the Scots Magazine.

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• In fact, Bill Clinton's an excellent example of what he should be doing when he realizes that he's not invulnerable. He realized two things: his invulnerability was contextualized in two things: junk food, and he had a problem with certain kinds of women.

  Walter Mischel

  Two, Example, Bills

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was collecting Barbies. I know... embarrassing. I sold them all on eBay, and traded them for vintage dishes. So I've collected two things.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Two, Ebay, Vintage

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We had no religion at all, but we were Jews in New Hampshire, and my sister - who is now a rabbi - said it best: We were, like, the only Jews in Bedford, New Hampshire, as well as the only Democrats, so we just kind of associated those two things together. My dad raised us to believe that paying taxes is an honor.

  Roseanne Barr

  Dad, Believe, Two

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I'm looking for one of two things and sometimes they dovetail: I'm looking to go into a theatre and see a certain kind of show. And if it's not there, I'd like to do it myself so it would be there.

  Hal Price

  Two, Theatre, Would Be

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• How I Shed My Skin is, simply put, a brilliant book. While I was reading, I kept thinking two things. One, this is totally shocking. Two, it's not at all shocking, but a familiar part of my life and memory. Grimsley's narrative is straightforward and plain-spoken while at the same time achingly moving and intimately honest, and it does more to explain the South than anything I've read in a long, long time.

  Josephine Humphreys

  Memories, Moving, Book

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• Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.

  Alan Watts

  Sleep, Acceptance, Skeletons

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• It seems then that it is not the excellence of any two things (or more) in themselves, but those two things as viewed by the light of each other, that makes beauty.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Light, Two, Excellence

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.90, Delphi Classics

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• I am looking forward very much to getting back to Cambridge, and being able to say what I think and not to mean what I say: two things which at home are impossible. Cambridge is one of the few places where one can talk unlimited nonsense and generalities without anyone pulling one up or confronting one with them when one says just the opposite the next day.

  Bertrand Russell

  Home, Mean, Thinking

  Bertrand Russell, Nicholas Griffin (2002). “The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Private Years, 1884-1914”, p.25, Psychology Press

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• Nothing can better express the feelings of the scientist towards the great unity of the laws of nature than in Immanuel Kant's words: "Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing awe: the stars above me and the moral law within me."... Would he, who did not yet know of the evolution of the world of organisms, be shocked that we consider the moral law within us not as something given, a priori, but as something which has arisen by natural evolution, just like the laws of the heavens?

  Konrad Lorenz

  Stars, Law, Two

  "On Aggression" by Konrad Lorenz, (Ch. XII), 1963.

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• When we say 'time', I believe we mean at least two things. We mean changes. And we mean something unchangeable. We mean something that moves . but against an unmoving background. And vice versa.Animals can sense changes. But consciousness of time involves the double sense of constancy and change. Which can only be attributed to those who give expression to it. And that can only be done through language, and only man has language.The perception of time and language are inextricably bound up with one another.

  Peter Høeg

  Believe, Moving, Mean

  Peter Høeg (2013). “Borderliners: A Novel”, p.253, Macmillan

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• When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods.

  Sophocles

  Taken, Two, Mind

  Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). “Sophocles: Fragments”, p.245, Harvard University Press

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• Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.

  Hippocrates

  Two, Skills, Ignorant

  Hippocrates (1849). “The Genuine Works of Hippocrates”, p.785

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• The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular condition of actual things which he designs to reform.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Eye, Two, Design

  "The Limits of State Action". Book by David Sidorsky. Chapter 16, 1792.

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• Two things have always been true about human beings. One, the world is always getting better. Two, the people living at that time think it's getting worse.

  Penn Jillette

  Thinking, Two, People

  "Honest Questions with Penn Jillette". "The Glenn Beck Program", transcripts.cnn.com. November 2, 2007.

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• My mother only ever said two things. She said,'I don't know, dear.'And she said,'Can I get you a sandwich, honey?

  Bill Bryson

  Mother, Two, Sandwiches

  1989 The Lost Continent, ch.1.

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• A natural parent has only two things principally to consider, the improvement of his son, and the finances to do it with.

  George Washington

  Son, Two, Parent

  George Washington (1908). “Letters and Addresses,”

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