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• There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land.

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Two, People

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• You must get good at one of two things; planting in the spring or begging in the fall.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spring

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 28, 2011

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• My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Cutting, Men

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Sports, Winning

  "Duke of the Court". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Funny, Writing, Winning

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• Every boy should have two things: a dog and a mother who lets him have one

  Robert Benchley

  Mother, Dog, Animal

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• As a southern man, there's two things I'm definitely not scared of: bow ties and white pants.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Men, Two, White

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• Two things to remember in life: take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take are of your words when you are with people.

  Lorde

  Two, People, Care

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• I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.

  Thucydides

  Passion, Thinking, Hands

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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• I doubt about myself. I think doubts are good in life. The people who don't have doubts I think only two things-arrogance or not intelligence.

  Rafael Nadal

  Thinking, Two, People

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• Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.

  Colin Powell

  Motivation, Inspiration, Men

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• My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady, and the other was to be independent. The study of law was unusual for women of my generation. For most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A., but your M.R.S.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Girl, Mother, Growing Up

  "Happy 83rd Birthday, Ruth Bader Ginsburg!" by Marina Fang, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2016.

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• Trust is a function of two things: character and competence. Character includes your integrity, your motive and your intent with people. Competence includes your capabilities, your skills, and your track record. Both are vital.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Character, Skills

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• The businessman only wants two things said about his company-what he pays his public relations people to say and what he pays his advertising people to say. He doesn't like anybody ever to look above, beyond or over that.

  Don Hewitt

  Two, People, Want

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• I've noticed two things about men who get big salaries. They are almost invariably men who, in conversation or in conference, are adaptable. They quickly get the other fellow's view. They are more eager to do this than to express their own ideas. Also, they state their own point of view convincingly.

  John Hallock, Jr.

  Communication, Men, Views

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• I believe in love. I believe in hard times and love winning. I believe marriage is hard. I believe people make mistakes. I believe people can want two things at once. I believe people are selfish and generous at the same time. I believe very few people want to hurt others. I believe that you can be surprised by life. I believe in happy endings.

  Isabel Gillies

  Inspirational, Marriage, Hurt

  Isabel Gillies (2009). “Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• If anybody had that cure out there like so many people swear to me they do, you'd be two things: you'd be very rich, and you'd be very famous. Otherwise, shut up.

  Patrick Swayze

  Cancer, Two, People

  "Swayze: Outlived Most With Pancreatic Cancer" by Joseph Brownstein, abcnews.go.com. September 16, 2009.

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• In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.

  Brian Mulroney

  Inspiration, Two, Political

  1990 Remark made to a journalist following the by-election victory of Liberal leader Jean Chre tien,10 Dec, quoted two days later by Graham Fraser in The Globe and Mail.

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• When I look at each of my brothers, I see two things. First, I see the next place I want to leave a rosy welt. Second, I see a good man who will always be there, no matter how hard life gets for me or him. Then, I get out of the way because I realize he's coming at me with a wet dish towel.

  Daniel Pearce

  Brother, Men, Two

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• Let us reflect in this way, too, that there is good hope that death is a blessing, for it is one of two things: either the dead are nothing and have no perception of anything, or it is, as we are told, a change and a relocation for the soul from here to another place.

  Socrates

  Apology, Blessing, Two

  "The Apology" by Plato,

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• I used to be afraid of two things - being alone and not being able to write. Since Albert's death, I don't care about writing or about other people.

  Hans-Uwe Bauer

  Death, Writing, Two

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• When I moved to the United States [from Asia] in 2001, I experienced a more rigid concept of gender, but somehow I was allowed to change my name and my gender marker. Why is there that paradox? How do I get those two things to be the same?

  Geena Rocero

  Inspiring, Names, Two

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• If a tablet is not wiped clean of it's figures, nothing can be written upon it. A single heart cannot serve as the place for two things, let alone for several things. If the heart is filled with the forms of sensory perceptions, it is rare that it would perceive the meaning of Allah, even if one were to say Allah a thousand times. When the heart is empty of all that is other-than-God, if one uttered Allah only once, one would find such bliss that the tongue could not describe.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Heart, Two, Perception

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• There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.

  Olive Schreiner

  Love, Reality, Two

  Olive Schreiner (1986). “The Woman's Rose: Stories and Allegories”, Ad Donker Publishers

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• In this lifetime, you got two things:
  Bad and good, and ain't nothin' in between.

  Cold 187um

  Rap, Two, Hip Hop

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