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  • Samuel Butler There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Sinclair Lewis There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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  • William Trogdon There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t.
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  • Anna Katharine Green There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.
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  • Henry Louis Mencken There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bruce Schneier There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.
    Source: Bruce Schneier (1996)
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • Gordon Graham There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. There's no cure for the first, but success and there's no cure at all for the second.
    Gordon Graham
     
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  • Dean William R. Inge There are two kinds of fools: One says, ''This is old therefore it is good.'' The other one says, ''This is new therefore it is better.''
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Umberto Eco There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • James Thurber There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Camilo Jose Cela There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
    Camilo Jose Cela
    Spanish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1989) (1916 - 2002)
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  • Abigail Van Buren There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, ''There you are'' and those who say, ''Here I am''
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Alan Cohen There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse for why a job was not done, and a results person will find any reason why it can be done.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Robert Byrne There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.
    Robert Byrne
    American author (1928 - 2013)
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  • Indira Gandhi There are two kinds of people: Those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group because there is less competition there.
    Indira Gandhi
    Indian stateswoman (1917 - 1984)
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  • C. S. Lewis There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ''Thy will be done,'' and those to whom God says, ''All right, then, have it your way.''
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Amelia Earhart There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.
    Amelia Earhart
    American aviation pioneer and author (1897 - 1937)
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  • Pearl Bailey There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
    Pearl Bailey
    American actress (1918 - 1990)
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  • James Russell Lowell There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Cliff Fadiman There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
    Cliff Fadiman
    American writer
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