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• I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable: the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I have had the good fortune to enjoy them both equally.

  Peter Greenaway

  Things In Life, Two, Together

  "Fictional character: Nagiko". "The Pillow Book", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• All Taliban are moderate. There are two things: extremism ['ifraat,' or doing something to excess] and conservatism ['tafreet,' or doing something insufficiently]. So in that sense, we are all moderates - taking the middle path.

  Mohammed Omar

  Two, Middle Path, Excess

  "Omar: 'Our plan is the destruction of America'". BBC World Service Interview, www.independent.co.uk. November 16, 2001.

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• For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do with each other. I arrange words one after another, or one in front of another, to tell a story, to say something that I consider important or useful, or at least important or useful to me. It is nothing more than this.

  Jose Saramago

  Jobs, Writing, Two

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• The creative is always an act of recombination, with something added by new juxtaposition—as making a spark requires two things struck together.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Creativity, Two, Creative

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• There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Two, Enough

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• Two things I recognize, O Lord, in myself: Nature, which Thou hast made; Sin, which I have added.

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Two, Sin, Lord

  Lancelot Andrewes (1957). “Private Prayers”, London : S.C.M. Press

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• Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me... Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

  Immanuel Kant

  Two, Awe And Wonder, Law

  "Critique of Practical Reason". Book by Immanuel Kant, 1788.

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• There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.

  Andrew Tobias

  Ideas, Two, Complicated

  "The invisible bankers". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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• No good government can ever want more than two things for its support: 1st, Its own excellence; and, 2dly, a people sufficiently instructed, to be aware of that excellence. Every other pretended support, must ultimately tend to its subversion, by lessening its dependence upon these.

  James Mill

  Government, Two, People

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• It's the spirit of Dominicans coming out and the pride that we have in our music and our baseball players. Dominicans love two things: politics and baseball. When we're not talking politics, we're talking baseball.

  Jose Peralta

  Baseball, Pride, Player

  "Mets Set for Merengue Night Honor - GM Minaya Accepts State Citation for Club's Outreach Efforts" by Ben Couch, MLB.com,

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• Spiritual growth depends on two things: first a willingness to live according to the Word of God; second, a willingness to take whatever consequences emerge as a result.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Spiritual, Two, Growth

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• You go through the Sporting News for the last one hundred years, and you will find two things are always true. You never have enough pitching, and nobody ever made money.

  Donald Fehr

  Years, Two, News

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• To be influential in our conversations, we must first be aware of two things, (1) what do we want to bring to the conversation and (2) what do we want to bring out in others.

  Bill Crawford

  Two, Want, Firsts

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• It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first. You may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the mean time your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learned them both.

  Samuel Johnson

  Education, Children, Mean

  Samuel Johnson (1807). “Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.59

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• You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got too much of one and not enough of the other.

  Paul Newman

  Happiness, Success, Winning

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• Two things, Christian reader, particularly excite the will of man to good. A principle of justice is one, the other the profit we may derive therefrom. All wise men, therefore, agree that justice and profit are the two most powerful inducements to move our wills to any undertaking. Now, though men seek profit more frequently than justice, yet justice is in itself more powerful.

  Louis of Granada

  Wise, Christian, Powerful

  Venerable Louis of Granada, Aeterna Press (1851). “The Sinner's Guide”, p.5, Aeterna Press

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• Well, maybe there are one or two things about the double jeopardy concept that are overlooked. I could be charged with violating my probation. I could be charged for illegal possession of a firearm or violating his civil rights if I did kill him. But when you're making a movie, there's only so much that you can do. I know that some people, while thoroughly enjoying it, have said, It's a little bit implausible. But it's such great fun.

  Ashley Judd

  Fun, Rights, Two

  "A list at last" by Bob Strauss, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2000.

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• Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.

  Uwe Boll

  Two, Hollywood, Actors

  "Boll, Uwe (Bloodrayne)". Interview with Jon Condit, www.dreadcentral.com. January 1, 2006.

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• Possession properly has two faces, two aspects: we all have a right to private property, but this is accompanied by our responsibility for its righteous use. These two things (which should be inseparable) are frequently divided today. Everyone admits that the farmer who own a horse is obligated to feed and care for it, but in the case of stocks and bonds, we often forget that the same principle should prevail.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Horse, Responsibility

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• I write best about two things, which is evident from the cover of So Far Gone: the constant quest to understand love and money.

  Drake

  Writing, Two, Gone

  "Drake: I Remain Calm (2010 Cover Story)". Interview with Damien Scott, www.complex.com. May 2, 2016.

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• The greatest sci-fis, in my mind, are two things: They're what-ifs - what if this happened, and you get to see it - but they're also these philosophical cautionary tales. They deal with the underlying themes beneath the what-if.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Philosophical, Two, Mind

  "Chris Pratt And Bryce Dallas Howard Are Living Our Dinosaur Fantasies In ‘Jurassic World’". Interview With Matthew Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2015.

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• With respect to the relationship between nuclear weapons and the advent of détente, one has to consider two things. One, the nature of nuclear weapons in themselves, and secondly, the advent of nuclear parity.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Two, Nuclear, Weapons

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• There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.

  Mark Twain

  Law, Two, Watches

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• Two things seemed pretty apparent to me. One was that in order to be a pilot a man had to learn more than any one man ought to learn; and the other was that he must learn it all over again in a different way every 24 hours.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Order, Two

  Mark Twain (2008). “Life on the Mississippi (Volume 1 of 3 ) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)”, p.167, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You must overcome any shyness and have a conversation with the librarian, because he can offer you reliable advice that will save you much time. You must consider that the librarian (if not overworked or neurotic) is happy when he can demonstrate two things: the quality of his memory and erudition and the richness of his library, especially if it is small. The more isolated and disregarded the library, the more the librarian is consumed with sorrow for its underestimation. A person who asks for help makes the librarian happy.

  Umberto Eco

  Memories, Two, Advice

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