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• The best path to power combines two things: 1) a path that not many are taking and 2) something that you are capable and comfortable with doing.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Two, Path, Comfortable

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• thought I was doing two things. One is inquiring into the phenomenon of revelation, if you are not a religious person. But, clearly, it's a sincere phenomenon.

  Salman Rushdie

  Religious, Two, Inquiring

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• The whole importance of Iraq is that we have now created two things. One, Iraq is in the Arab heartland in terms of an attraction for people who want to fight the Americans and their allies. It's far greater than anything Afghanistan was aftertheSoviets invaded. It's easy to get to, there's no trouble with languages.

  Michael Scheuer

  Fighting, Two, Iraq

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I live by the simplest, perhaps facile command that Jesus ever gave, which is to love God with the whole self and the neighbor as the self, and I find that's entirely consuming. To do those two things leaves me very little time to do much else.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Jesus, Self, Two

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I find it so funny that for the first time in history, people have access to this great equalizer in the Internet, which grants everyone the same knowledge base, and we use it to read album reviews and watch kitten videos... not to put those two things in the same light!

  Alan Palomo

  Light, Two, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Make a record in your bedroom on a cheap computer, play it on pirate radio, and that's what's it's all about. You can do something really exciting and you don't need any record companies. The way I do everything comes from that, the impact of those two things.

  Kieran Hebden

  Two, Impact, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I hate money. It is boring and it is arithmetic. The two things I hate the most.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Hate, Two, Boring

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• Luckily when you drive a cab there are two things: You don't have a boss in the cab with you, and you are not facing the people that you are making money from.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Two, People, Boss

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• You can recruit the populace conservatism for the interests of corporate conservatism that the two things can be married into one unholy union.

  Jeff Sharlet

  Two, Unions, Married

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can live with, two things have to happen.

  Edward Hirsch

  Writing, Thinking, Two

  "Embracing the Mess of Poetry". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• But, something has to be worked through formally as well as emotionally. Now, when those two things come together I've got something, I think, that I can be proud of.

  Edward Hirsch

  Thinking, Two, Together

  Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• I'd say that that is a challenge, but it also is, again, it's helpful. It's helpful to have the discipline of, okay, I'm doing, I'm doing something that's quite precise over here, working the puppet, and I'm doing something that's very imprecise and creative and unleashed over here, which is the comedy side. And it's kind of nice to allow your brain to be doing those two things at once.

  Brian Henson

  Nice, Two, Discipline

  Source: bigthink.com

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• What I like in comedies are really two things: stories that are character-driven and stories that are rooted in authenticity.

  Alex Karpovsky

  Character, Two, Stories

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• After Luis Suarez of Uruguay bit an Italian opponent in the shoulder, two things happened. Suarez was thrown out of the rest of the tournament, and the player he bit turned Uruguayan.

  Peter Sagal

  Italian, Player, Two

  "Who's Bill This Time". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!", www.npr.org. June 27, 2014.

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• Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine.

  Gene Perret

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Naps

  Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

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• "If we had not created a set of people against another the world would have been corrupt", and "against" here means two things: Against in the fact that they are challenging you with their diversity, challenging your intelligence and to challenge is not negative, it can be very positive depending on how you are challenged.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Mean, Two, People

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• I had always spoken about the space between the art object and the person looking at it as this dynamic space, which I referred to over and over. So the idea of the space between two things was sort of interesting to me.

  Robert Barry

  Art, Space, Ideas

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I was definitely prepared for it to be slower, and it has not worked out that way in any shape or form. I'm grateful as a comedian, and slightly demoralized, occasionally, as a human being - those two things are always very different.

  John Oliver

  Grateful, Two, Comedian

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Obviously, our political system is profoundly corrupted by, among other things, the influence of money. But, at a deeper level, the current structure is flawed because it looks to citizens for only two things - votes and money. I don't think we will see any healing until citizens are viewed in a whole new way.

  Marianne Williamson

  Healing, Thinking, Two

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I think what Lawrence did was provide an assurance that gay and lesbian couples could live openly in society as free people and start families and raise families and participate fully in their communities without fear. And two things flowed from that, I think. One is that has brought us to the point where we understand now in a way even that we did not fully understand in Lawrence, that gay and lesbian people and gay and lesbian couples are full and equal members of the community.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Couple, Gay, Thinking

  Source: www.slate.com

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• No two things are equal. No two people are equal. Nobody can guarantee equal outcomes unless everybody's poor.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Two, People, Guarantees

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Now, two things happen. One is, people know people, whether that's on Facebook or Twitter. They feel closer to the event. Secondly, people see other people doing something about it.

  Pete Cashmore

  Two, People, Events

  "Pete Cashmore of MASHABLE". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I am a storyteller and a researcher, and I'm sorry the world has a hard time straddling the tension of those two things, but that's who I am.

  Brené Brown

  Sorry, Hard Times, Who I Am

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think that the influence of people with power and money to distort democracy and have their interests served before the rest of the population is the biggest problem. That is caused by two things: campaign finance and the way that's structured, and by the Citizen's United supreme court decision. So those two things are keeping democracy from working right.

  Shepard Fairey

  Thinking, Two, People

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• There are two things that matter in a criminal investigation of a subject.What did the person do, and when they did that thing, what were they thinking? When you look at the hundred-years-plus of the Justice Department investigation and prosecution of mishandling of classified information, those two questions are obviously present.

  James Comey

  Thinking, Years, Two

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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