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There are two kinds of people…

September 14th, 2005 by Michael Moncur in Quotations

One well-defined trait of the human race is that we like to divide each other up into opposite categories: good or bad, friend or enemy, young or old, wise or foolish. Perhaps that’s why there are so many quotations that begin with the words “There are two kinds of people”:

There are two types of people–those who come into a room and say, ‘Well, here I am!’ and those who come in and say, ‘Ah, there you are.’
Frederick L Collins
There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’
C. S. Lewis
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
Indira Gandhi
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.
Robert Byrne

While these kinds of generalizations are fun and a great way to make a point, the reality is that there are millions of kinds of people, and it’s wise to remember that people just might be more than the category you’ve assigned them to. Robert Benchley has the final word on this topic:

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don’t.
Robert Benchley, Benchley’s Law of Distinction

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