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• When we say 'time', I believe we mean at least two things. We mean changes. And we mean something unchangeable. We mean something that moves . but against an unmoving background. And vice versa.Animals can sense changes. But consciousness of time involves the double sense of constancy and change. Which can only be attributed to those who give expression to it. And that can only be done through language, and only man has language.The perception of time and language are inextricably bound up with one another.

  Peter Høeg

  Believe, Moving, Mean

  Peter Høeg (2013). “Borderliners: A Novel”, p.253, Macmillan

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• When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods.

  Sophocles

  Taken, Two, Mind

  Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). “Sophocles: Fragments”, p.245, Harvard University Press

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• Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.

  Hippocrates

  Two, Skills, Ignorant

  Hippocrates (1849). “The Genuine Works of Hippocrates”, p.785

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• The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular condition of actual things which he designs to reform.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Eye, Two, Design

  "The Limits of State Action". Book by David Sidorsky. Chapter 16, 1792.

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• Two things have always been true about human beings. One, the world is always getting better. Two, the people living at that time think it's getting worse.

  Penn Jillette

  Thinking, Two, People

  "Honest Questions with Penn Jillette". "The Glenn Beck Program", transcripts.cnn.com. November 2, 2007.

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• My mother only ever said two things. She said,'I don't know, dear.'And she said,'Can I get you a sandwich, honey?

  Bill Bryson

  Mother, Two, Sandwiches

  1989 The Lost Continent, ch.1.

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• A natural parent has only two things principally to consider, the improvement of his son, and the finances to do it with.

  George Washington

  Son, Two, Parent

  George Washington (1908). “Letters and Addresses,”

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• Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Book, Destiny

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, 1982.

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• If you vent anger with the object of spreading your toxic feelings, the result will have nothing to do with healing. Your anger is your weapon. On the other hand, if you release anger the way you'd expel a rock from your shoe, your intention clearly has healing behind it. Once the anger starts flowing, both of these alternatives might feel the same. Anger is anger. But if you have a healing intention, two things will happen: you will feel more peaceful after your anger has been released, and you will feel like an old, fixed belief in enemies and injustice has started to move.

  Deepak Chopra

  Moving, Anger, Healing

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• If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  War, Opposites, Civilization

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  Two things people throughout history have had in common are hatred and humour. I am proud that I have been able to use humour to lessen people's hatred.

  Richard Pryor

  Two, People, Hatred

  2004 InThe Scotsman, 5 Jun.

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• To succeed in life one needs two things -- influence and a lucky star.

  Leonid Andreyev

  Stars, Two, Succeed

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• Two things are always the same the dance and war.

  Gertrude Stein

  War, Two

  1937 Everybody's Autobiography, ch.5.

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• I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction; and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly.

  Andy Grove

  Real, Thinking, Two

  "Rotman on Design: The Best on Design Thinking from Rotman Magazine". Book by Roger Martin and ‎Karen Christensen, p. 213, 2013.

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• When people can't abide things as they are, when they can't abide the present, they do one of two things ... either they ... either they turn to a contemplation of the past ... or they set about to ... alter the future. And when you want to change something ... YOU BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

  Edward Albee

  Change, Past, Two

  EDWARD ALBEE (1962). “WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?”

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• Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.

  Edward Albee

  Character, Play, Two

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• Trust him with none of thy individualities who is, or pretends to be, two things at once.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Two, Hypocrisy, Individuality

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• Two things can get people to make efforts: if people want to get something, or if they want to get rid of something. Only, in ordinary conditions, without knowledge, people do not know what they can get rid of or what they can gain.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Two, People, Effort

  "The Fourth Way". Book by P.D. Ouspensky, 1957.

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• If man looks within himself he must perceive two things: a law of right, and that which it condemns.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Men, Law, Two

  Henry Parry Liddon (1872). “The Life of Faith and the Athanasian Creed: a Sermon [on John Iii. 36], Etc”, p.11

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• [Social legislation] raised the cost of production; and what can be more illogical than to raise the cost of production in the country and then to allow the products of other countries which are not surrounded by any similar legislation, which are free from any similar cost and expenditure freely to enter our country in competition with our own goods...If these foreign goods come in cheaper, one of two things must follow...either you will take lower wages or you will lose your work.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Country, Two, Competition

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• Too many christians have been chargeable with... confounding the Logos of Plato with that of John , and making of it a second person in the trinity, than which no two things can be more different.

  Joseph Priestley

  Christian, Plato, Two

  Joseph Priestley (1782). “An History of the Corruption of Christianity”, p.462

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• I think love and friends are two things that you don't chase. True love and true friends come.

  Toni Gonzaga

  True Friend, Thinking, Two

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• When you peel back the layers of the anti-choice motivation, it always comes back to two things: What is the nature and purpose of human sexuality? And second, what is the role of women in the world? Sex and the role of women are inextricably linked, because if you can separate sex from procreation, you have given women the ability to participate in society on an equal basis with men.

  Gloria Feldt

  Sex, Motivation, Men

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• Two things, generally, for me, is what life is about. And they're not funny. Living in the moment, is one. And No. 2 is getting out of yourself and helping other people. Because all of my suffering stems from thinking from myself.

  Bobby Lee

  Helping Others, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If you want to write, do two things - read lots of books and also, in your own writing, practise. Just write and write and then write again. persist. And never be put off or discouraged. You can do it!

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Book, Writing, Two

  "National Book Festival: 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency' Novelist Alexander McCall Smith". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. September 19, 2008.

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