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• Personally, when it comes to rights, I think one of two things is true. I think either we have unlimited rights, or we have no rights at all. Personally I lean towards unlimited rights, I feel for instance I have the right to do anything I please, BUT! If I do something you don't like I think you have the right to kill me.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Rights, Two

  "Character: George Carlin". "George Carlin... It's Bad for Ya!", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we succeed we will never know it

  Donald Hall

  Writing, Two, Goal

  Donald Hall (1988). “Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982-1988”

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• I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  War, Two, Tanks

  "Holidays in Hell". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1989.

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• I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

  Jeff Hawkins

  Two, Design, Brain

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• I try to do two things: locate my fastball and change speeds. That's it. I try to keep as simple as possible. I just throw my fastball (to) both sides of the plate and change speed every now and then. There is no special food or anything like that, I just try to make quality pitches and try to be prepared each time I go out there.

  Greg Maddux

  Simple, Two, Special

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• There are only two things a manager needs to know: When to change pitchers and how to get along with your players.

  Bucky Harris

  Player, Two, Needs

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• Two things distinguish nonviolent actions from violent actions. First, you don't see an enemy and second, your intention is not to make the other side suffer.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Two, Enemy

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• There are two things for a marriage to be good. One is to work hard on it. The other one is to marry above you. And I succeeded at both of those.

  Ben Affleck

  Marriage, Hard Work, Two

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• Saying and doing are two things.

  Matthew Henry

  Two, Saying And Doing, Pilgrims Progress

  Matthew Henry “Matthew HenryÕs Commentary on the Whole Bible: Volume IV-III - Ezekiel to Hosea”, Lulu.com

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• Of God's love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino on the planet; and secondly, God's love doesn't seek value, it creates value. It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Love, God, Loneliness

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.6, Westminster John Knox Press

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• But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision.

  Steven Brust

  Two, Decision, Action

  Steven Brust (2002). “The Book of Taltos”, p.384, Penguin

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• In McKinsey's world, all of life is one of two things: strategy or organization.

  Tom Peters

  Organization, Two, World

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• Two things that are not long for this world: dogs that chase cars and professional golfers who putt for pars.

  Lee Trevino

  Dog, Golf, Two

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• Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Two, People

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• What did John Ashcroft say about moderates, he said, quote, there are two things you find in the middle of the road, a moderate and a dead skunk and I don't want to be either.

  John Ashcroft

  Two, Want, Middle

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• We must do something about the cross, and there’s only one of two things we can do- flee it or die upon it!

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Two, Crosses, Can Do

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• You should never do two things. You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn't do that; I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone.

  Brion Gysin

  Two, Nails, Hammers

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• That gut-wrenching feeling of defeat I can still feel today. Losing and God are the two things that I fear. I fear no man

  Joe Calzaghe

  Men, Two, Feelings

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• There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can’t remember what the second one is.

  Mark Hanna

  Two, Important, Firsts

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• Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once.

  Lesley Howarth

  Two, Maps, Way

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• To be right, a person must do one of two things: either he must learn to have God in his work and hold fast to him there, or he must give up his work altogether. Since, however, we cannot live without activities that are both human and various, we must learn to keep God I everything we do, and whatever the job or place, keep on with him, letting nothing stand in our way.

  Meister Eckhart

  Jobs, Giving Up, Two

  Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

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• You seeyou can beat a dog and it's going to do one of two things..it's gonna roll over and die or it's going to bite you and attack you. And I'm the kind of person..uh..whose the type of dog that will bite back..I wasn't going to roll over and die

  Mike Katz

  Dog, Two, Kind

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• For the most part I'll probably do floor exercise and balance beam. Those are the two things that I do.

  Shannon Miller

  Exercise, Two, Balance

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• Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

  Warren Spahn

  Games, Two, Magic

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• There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

  Stephen Leacock

  Two, People, Ordinary

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.82, University of Toronto Press

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