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• I can't imagine what they're planning. But I can tell you two things. We won't like it, and it won't be legal.

  Eoin Colfer

  Two, Planning, Imagine

  Eoin Colfer (2004). “Artemis Fowl Files, The (Sp 04 edition)”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Two, Eyes Watching

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.230, University of Illinois Press

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• You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.

  Jane Fonda

  Inspirational, Women, Two

  Jane Fonda (2006). “Jane Fonda's Words of Politics and Passion”

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• The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!

  Juvenal

  Two, People, Circus

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• As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wisdom, Money, Two

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• War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

  William Faulkner

  Funny, War, Men

  William Faulkner (2011). “A Fable”, p.26, Vintage

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• There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Stars, Home, Moon

  Barbara KingSolver (1988). “The Bean Trees: A Novel”, Harpercollins

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• Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Men, Mercy Of God, Things In Life

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• When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse

  Theodore Dreiser

  Girl, Fall, Home

  Theodore Dreiser (2016). “Sister Carrie”, p.5, Theodore Dreiser

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• Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.

  John Newton

  Religious, Jesus, Memories

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• When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.

  Edward Teller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Seven Steps to Starting and Running an Editorial Consulting Business" by Jane M. Frutchey, (p. 121), 2002.

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• The only thing you should have to do is find work you love to do. And I can't imagine living without having loved a person. A man, in my case. It could be a woman, but whatever. I think, what I always tell kids when they get out of class and ask, 'What should I do now?' I always say, 'Keep a low overhead. You're not going to make a lot of money.' And the next thing I say: 'Don't live with a person who doesn't respect your work.' That's the most important thing—that's more important than the money thing. I think those two things are very valuable pieces of information.

  Grace Paley

  Kids, Men, Thinking

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• Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Two, Rose, Secret Garden

  Frances Hodgson Burnett, General Press (2016). “The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)”, p.175, GENERAL PRESS

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• The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which our Enemy has of reality of whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered to them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Reality, Two

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• A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.

  Wallace Stevens

  Order, Two, Violent

  "Connoisseur of Chaos" l. 1 (1942)

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• Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I come into contast as a patient in the emergency room. I see a lot of gaping wounds and dazed expressions. Or, as Marianne Moore put it, "The world's an orphan's home." And this feels more true than almost anything else I know. But so many of us can be soothed by writing: think of how many times you have opened a book, read one line, and said, "Yes!" And I want to give people that feeling, too, of connection, communication.

  Anne Lamott

  Book, Communication, Home

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• She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing forever everything that is familiar.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Change, Dream

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• I read for growth, firmly believing that what you are today and what you will be in five years depends on two things: the people you meet and the books you read.

  Twyla Tharp

  Believe, Book, Years

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• I didn't think I was in a morbid mood, but it appears I am. My mind goes round and round trying to figure things out, but I always come back to the same two things: Loneliness and Death. Life ends before we figure anything out, most importantly how not to be lonely. Solitude is fine. But feeling like you have no one to love - abject lonliness - is not alright.

  Jonathan Ames

  Lonely, Loneliness, Thinking

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• The god of dirt came up to me many times and said so many wise and delectable things, I lay on the grass listening to his dog voice, frog voice; now, he said, and now, and never once mentioned forever from, One or Two Things

  Mary Oliver

  Wise, Dog, Two

  Mary Oliver (2014). “Dream Work”, p.37, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that you love her. Of these the second is more important, for if you tell a woman you love her, she will certainly feed you.

  Louis L'Amour

  Country, Two, Important

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• Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable, determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Two, Mind, Courageous

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2015). “The Secret Garden”, p.224, Xist Publishing

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• There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Men, Things In Life, Two

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• The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination is the discovery of likenesses between two things which were thought unlike. An example is Newton’s thinking of the likeness between the thrown apple and moon sailing majestically in the sky. Hence, the ‘discovery’ of the laws of gravity.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Moon, Thinking, Discovery

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• The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.

  Vera Nazarian

  Memories, Two, Acting

  Vera Nazarian (2004). “Dreams of the Compass Rose”, p.175, Wildside Press LLC

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