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[[Self-Demonstrating Article|...Those who put everyone into two groups, and everyone else.]]

 

 

# [[Shaped Like Itself|Tautologies]]: "There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who fit, and those who don't." Logically, this statement is self-evident: [[Captain Obvious|either you are, or you aren't]]. ("X, and everyone else" is another variation.)

* There's a ''[[Pokémon]]'' novelization which promisingly opened stating that there are two types of people in the world: people who catch and train Pokémon themselves and people who try to steal other people's Pokémon. The immediate audience reaction is: "What about those people who sit around and have no interest in Pokémon whatsoever?"

** Those are called dead people.

{{quote|It is said that there are two types of people in the world: those who look at a glass that is exactly half full and say, "This is glass is half full," and those who look at the same glass and say, "This glass is half empty." But the world is ''ruled'' by the people who look at the glass and say, "Excuse me? ''Excuse'' me? This is ''my'' glass? I don't ''think'' so. My glass was full. And I had a bigger glass!"}}

{{quote|'''Detritus''': Only ... ''(counts fingers)'' only two-er things come from Slice Mountain. Rocks, an' ... an' other sorts of rocks!}}

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110604053509/http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2004/9/20warner.html This] parody of David Brooks.

* ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', "Meltdown": When Rimmer is inspecting the troops, he tells St. Francis: "There's only two kinds from Assisi, steers and queers -- which are you, boy?"

** Which is, of course, homage to [[Full Metal Jacket]] in reference to things that come from Texas.

** It also doubles as a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], especially when you consider that had anyone else said that, it probably would have sounded rather arrogant. Somehow Sarah Jane saying it just makes it ''work.''

* From a season 7 episode of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'': "There are two kinds of people: those who move on, and those who can't."

* From the [[Pushing Daisies]] episode ''Circus Circus'', the French acrobat tells Ned and Emerson that they are two types of people in the world- circus performers, and "stubs", those that watch.

* There are two kinds of pedestrians in Rome: the fast ones and the dead ones.

* There are two types of people in this world. One is people who can infer based on what they're given.

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* Probably not the last word on the subject, but there are two types of people in the world: Those who divide people into two types and those that don't.

* There are two kinds of women who enlist in the Navy: [[Really Gets Around|Bikes]] and [[Butch Lesbian|Dykes]].