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• My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be treated equally because no one is better than anyone else, and he never pressured me to become a doctor.

  Greg Iles

  Mother, Teacher, Father

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• I like people trying to do two things at once.

  Allison Janney

  Two, People, Trying

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• Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.

  John Maeda

  Art, Growing Up, Math

  "Jobs Added Art to STEM to Create Steam" by John Maeda, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2011.

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• What I find very attractive, what I find sexual, are people who are unapologetic for who they are and comfortable with themselves. And I think with those two things sexual energy does come out because you're not hovering or censoring yourself, you're just being who you are. And being who you are is a very attractive quality in a person.

  Katherine Moennig

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Two

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• Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.

  Ann Patchett

  Teenager, Writing, Two

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• Wisdom is the ability to do two things at once, to be in the world and enjoy it and at the same time, to be in the realms of light, to be in samadhi.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Buddhism, Two

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• I have a certain sensibility that I bring to my writing that comes from knowing two things: what I as a reader like to read, and what as a writer I am capable of. I know my own limits. I know there are things I cannot do.

  Paullina Simons

  Writing, Two, Knowing

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• I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter, because the truth is that all pursuits are connected if we gain an eye for the thematic links.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Art, Eye, Two

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• When you are in a bad production there are two things you can do. You can do your best or you can leave. I chose to do the third thing which was sulk.

  Samuel West

  Two, Thirds, Can Do

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• If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Two, Wish, Would Be

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• Developing a genius mindset essentially comes down to two things: operating at speed and using the subconscious mind more than the conscious. This intuitive or relaxed approach to study is the polar opposite of traditional and mainstream forms of education.

  James Morcan

  Opposites, Two, Mind

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• I learned that there are two things that kids really like: movement and love. Happy kids move; unhappy, they don't move.

  Magnus

  Moving, Kids, Happy Kid

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• I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once.

  Jane Smiley

  Thinking, Years, Two

  "Jane Smiley: Everything I need to know I learned from a horse" by Jane Smiley, www.cnn.com. September 5, 2011.

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• If someone should ask me, 'What does the soul do?' I would say, It does two things. It loves. And it creates. Those are its primary acts.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Two, Soul, Doe

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• If there's a God, and we have all this evidence that there's evolution, but He created the world only 6,000 years ago - what is the best and most logical explanation to reconcile those two things? I came up with - He came up with it, of course - that all things are fakeable.

  David Javerbaum

  Years, Two, World

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• There's the part that I just want what I want, and I don't want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term more compulsive self. And then that's the longer-term, aspirational self that wants to be informed about the world and wants to be a good citizen. The best media basically helps us strike a balance between those two things.

  Eli Pariser

  Self, Media, Two

  "Eli Pariser: What Search Engines Are Hiding From Us". "KPBS Midday Edition" with Maureen Cavanaugh, www.kpbs.org. May 23, 2011.

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• There are two things that people [are surrounded by and] avoid trying to understand. One is music, and the other is electricity.

  Frank Oppenheimer

  Two, People, Trying

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• If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this.

  Jose Padilha

  Thinking, Wings, Two

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• There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Two, Religion, Atheism

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.96

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• Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Two, Firsts, Quarrels

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.206

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  For over 221 years our Corps has done two things for this great Nation. We make Marines, and we win battles.

  Charles C. Krulak

  Military, Marine, Winning

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• Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

  Carrie Snow

  Successful, Two, Marriage Equality

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• England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sports, Two, England

  Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.13, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Two, Facts, Leafs

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• You and your brain are two things. The brain is your machinery just like everything else is your machinery. This hand is my mechanism; I use it. My brain is my mechanism; I use it.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Hands, Two

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