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Your Quotes for 18 June 2005 - Two Kinds

One consistent trait of the human mind is to categorize the phenomena it encounters. Thus, there are countless quips that start out "There are two kinds of people ..." It should come as no surprise that there are a number of serious quotes along the same lines.

There are two kinds of people in the world; those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'Go ahead, then, have it your way.'
     - Clive Staples Lewis, 1898 - 1963

The two kinds of people on earth I mean,
Are the people who lift and the people who lean.
     - Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1850 - 1919

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
     - Emile Chartier

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
     - Laurence J. Peter, 1919 - 1990

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.
     - William Least Heat Moon

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
     - Will Rogers, 1879 - 1935

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