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• On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you. Evolution is win-win…life is self-correcting.

  Deepak Chopra

  Winning, Self, Order

  Deepak Chopra (2009). “The Book Of Secrets: Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here?”, p.97, Random House

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• ...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

  Stephen King

  Two, Stupidity, Retrospect

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• Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

  Charles de Lint

  Lying, Night, Blue

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.190, Macmillan

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• Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once.

  David Levithan

  Two, Giving, Trying

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.192, Macmillan

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• Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Writing, Two, Knowing

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• It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy.

  Terence McKenna

  War, Engineering, Years

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• When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?

  Jodi Picoult

  Running, Fall, Two

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Utopianism also attempts to shape and dominate the individual by doing two things at once: it strips the individual of his uniqueness, making him indistinguishable from the multitudes that form what is commonly referred to as 'the masses,' but it simultaneously assigns him a group identity based on race, ethnicity, age, gender, income, etc., to highlight differences within the masses.

  Mark Levin

  Race, Ethnicity, Two

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• Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw. Morality tells you what is right, and adventure moves you. If morality means anything it means keeping bounds, respecting implications, respecting implicit bounds. If individuality means anything it means breaking bounds – adventure.

  H. G. Wells

  Moving, Adventure, Mean

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.3014, Delphi Classics

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• A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.

  Seth Godin

  Years, Ideas, Two

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.1, Penguin

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• She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

  Edith Wharton

  Two, Together, Amusement

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1608, Delphi Classics

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• Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

  Seamus Heaney

  Epic Poems, Two, Mind

  Seamus Heaney (2009). “Beowulf”, p.30, Faber & Faber

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• There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the end time will show you that the cards you have been dealt could always have been worse.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Things In Life, Two, Differences

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2011). “The Midnight Palace”, p.186, Hachette UK

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• Filters are for cigarrettes and coffee," Simon muttered under his breath as they went inside. "Two things I could use right now, incidentally.

  Cassandra Clare

  Coffee, Two, Filters

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.

  Patrick Ness

  Men, Two, Differences

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• Scholars do one of two things when they discover information that doesn't fit what they already know. Either they sweep it aside so it doesn't bring their cherished theories into question or they focus on it with laserlike intensity and try to get to the bottom of the mystery.

  Deborah Harkness

  Two, Focus, Trying

  Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.21, Penguin

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• Everything you’ve told yourself you ought to do, your mind thinks you should do right now. Frankly, as soon add you have two things to do stored in your RAM, you’ve generated personal failure, because you can’t do two things at the same time. This produces an all-pervasive stress factor whose source can’t be pin-pointed.

  David Allen

  Stress, Thinking, Two

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• We men are very simple people: if we like what we see, we’re coming over there. If we don’t want anything from you, we’re not coming over there. Period. Please highlight this part right here so you can always remind yourself the next time a man steps to you: a man always wants something. Always. And when it comes to women, that plan is always to find out two things: (1) if you’re willing to sleep with him, and (2) if you are, how much it will cost to get you to sleep with him.

  Steve Harvey

  Sleep, Simple, Men

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• why don't we go back out there and tell them what happened? because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane and stupid by life. in this society there are only two things that count: don't be caught without money and don't get caught high on any kind of high. (Night Streets of Madness)

  Charles Bukowski

  Stupid, Night, Two

  Charles Bukowski (1972). “Erections, ejaculations, exhibitions, and general tales of ordinary madness”

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• Love is like infinity: You can't have more or less infinity, and you can't compare two things to see if they're "equally infinite." Infinity just is, and that's the way I think love is, too.

  Fred Rogers

  Love Is, Thinking, Two

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.24, Penguin

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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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