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* From ''[[The Acts of Caine|Blade of Tyshalle]]'': |
* From ''[[The Acts of Caine|Blade of Tyshalle]]'': |
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{{quote|"You know what they say. There are two kinds of people in the world: [[Lampshade Hanging|people who say things like 'There are two kinds of people in the world', and people who know those first people are full of shit.]]"}} |
{{quote|"You know what they say. There are two kinds of people in the world: [[Lampshade Hanging|people who say things like 'There are two kinds of people in the world', and people who know those first people are full of shit.]]"}} |
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* The treecats from |
* The treecats from ''[[Honorverse]]'' recognise two types of enemy: those who have been appropriately dealt with, and those who are still alive. |
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* Humorist Robert Benchley once noted that there were two types of people in the world: people who believe that there are two types of people in the world, and people who don't. |
* Humorist Robert Benchley once noted that there were two types of people in the world: people who believe that there are two types of people in the world, and people who don't. |
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** This was parodied in Donald Westlake's short story ''[http://www.donaldwestlake.com/shortstory2.html Don't You Know There's A War On?]'', in which the inhabitants of a planet consist of two types of people: people who believe what Robert Benchley said about there being two types of people in the world, and people who don't. And they've been fighting a war for several '''centuries''' about it. |
** This was parodied in Donald Westlake's short story ''[http://www.donaldwestlake.com/shortstory2.html Don't You Know There's A War On?]'', in which the inhabitants of a planet consist of two types of people: people who believe what Robert Benchley said about there being two types of people in the world, and people who don't. And they've been fighting a war for several '''centuries''' about it. |
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* From ''[[The Pendragon Adventure]]'' series, after being given a room with a clown motif. |
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{{quote|There are two kinds of people in this world. People who hate and fear clowns... and clowns.}} |
{{quote|There are two kinds of people in this world. People who hate and fear clowns... and clowns.}} |
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* A classic one from Rainsford in ''[[The Most Dangerous Game]]'': "This world's divided into two kinds of people: the hunter and the hunted." |
* A classic one from Rainsford in ''[[The Most Dangerous Game]]'': "This world's divided into two kinds of people: the hunter and the hunted." |
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* Fisk tries to use this in the ''[[Knight and Rogue Series]]'' to describe what kind of nobleman Michael's father is, but can't help but admit that if he bothered to think about it he'd probably come up with at least thirty types. |
* Fisk tries to use this in the ''[[Knight and Rogue Series]]'' to describe what kind of nobleman Michael's father is, but can't help but admit that if he bothered to think about it he'd probably come up with at least thirty types. |
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* ''[[Forgotten Realms |
* ''Azure Bonds'' ([[Forgotten Realms]] novel) put things straight: |
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{{quote|'''Alias''': Riding a wagon along protected trading routes in a guarded merchant caravan doesn't make you an adventurer. Until you've hiked more than twenty miles a day, slept in a ditch, and eaten something that tried to kill you first, you're not an adventurer. Anyone who isn't an adventurer is a greengrocer.}} |
{{quote|'''Alias''': Riding a wagon along protected trading routes in a guarded merchant caravan doesn't make you an adventurer. Until you've hiked more than twenty miles a day, slept in a ditch, and eaten something that tried to kill you first, you're not an adventurer. Anyone who isn't an adventurer is a greengrocer.}} |
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* In ''[[Kim]]'' the [[Cool Old Lady|old Sahiba]] had her own version: |
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{{quote|I have seen something of this world, and there are but two sorts of women in it — those who take the strength out of a man and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.}} |
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== Live Action TV == |
== Live Action TV == |
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