quotes about Two Sides
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I don't believe there are two sides to every argument. I think the facts are the center. And watching the news abandon the facts in favor of 'fairness' is what's troubling to me.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
Capitalism and Bolshevism are the two sides of the same international Jewish coin.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
-- AesopSource : Aesop, Thomas James (1866). “Æsop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.28
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Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.
-- Albert Bushnell HartSource : Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”
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What a bunch of garbage, liberal, Democratic, conservative, Republican, it's all there to control you, two sides of the same coin! Two management teams, bidding for control of the CEO job of Slavery Incorporated!
-- Alex JonesSource : "Fictional character: Alex Jones". "Waking Life", www.imdb.com. 2001.
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Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.
-- Alfie Kohn -
You cannot be this successful without having God on your side.
-- Andy Dick -
I am hoping the four new players can bring in some energy and fresh enthusiasm because they do not have the baggage that comes from being part of a losing side.
-- Andy Pick -
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Budget consolidation and economic growth are two sides of the same coin.
-- Angela Merkel -
I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.
-- Angelina Jolie -
If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.
-- Angelina Jolie -
On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.
-- Anna Howard Shaw -
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I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They are both absolutely right.
-- Auberon Waugh -
I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.
-- Augusten BurroughsSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
-- Ayn RandSource : Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.102, Penguin
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Sustainable development and climate change are two sides of the same coin
-- Ban Ki-moon -
We like things to be black or white, tall or short, here or there. We like to consider two sides to every story. Unfortunately, there aren't always two sides. Sometimes there's only one; more often, there are multitudes. Many facets on the stone. Nooks and crannies in abundance. Things are usually not either black or white, but multicolored.
-- Barry Leiba -
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
-- Baruch SpinozaSource : "The New York Comics And Picture-story Symposium: Jennifer George And Charles Kochman", therumpus.net. March 4, 2014.
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I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
-- Ben WhishawSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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When it comes to religion, we're not two sides of the same coin, and you don't get to put your unreason up on the same shelf with my reason. Your stuff has to go over there, on the shelf with Zeus and Thor and the Kraken, with the stuff that is not evidence-based, stuff that religious people never change their mind about, no matter what happens.
-- Bill Maher -
There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.
-- Bill Parcells -
I was involved with the Batman. There are two sides to every story. Now you've heard my side.
-- Bob Kane -
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When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty.
-- Christopher AlexanderSource : Christopher Alexander (1977). “A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction”, p.747, Oxford University Press
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We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.
-- D.T. Suzuki -
It's hard to be fully creative without structure and constraint. Try to paint without a canvas. Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds. Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.
-- David AllenSource : David Allen (2011). “Ready For Anything: 52 productivity principles for work and life”, p.53, Hachette UK
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We all have at least two sides. The world we live in is a world of opposites. And the trick is to reconcile those opposing things. I've always liked both sides. In order to appreciate one you have to know the other. The more darkness you can gather up, the more light you can see too.
-- David Lynch -
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But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.
-- Dick Bruna -
Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.
-- DiogenesSource : Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other.
-- E. L. James -
Always remember, me dear, whether you're listening to a tale or telling one: Every penny piece that's struck has two sides to it.
-- E. M. DelafieldSource : E. M. Delafield (2015). “Collected Novels of E. M. Delafield (6 Unabridged Editions in One Volume): Zella Sees Herself, The War Workers, Consequences, Tension, The Heel of Achilles & Humbug by the Prolific Author of The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Thank Heaven Fasting and The Way Things Are”, p.959, e-artnow
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The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
I know if someone is coming from my right side. I could feel it.
-- Emerson FittipaldiSource : Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. August 2, 2002.
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Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.
-- Eric Allman -
There's something that's sexy about a guy who has the strength to kill somebody, but is also vulnerable enough to be in love. It's just those two sides - like, I don't know why, but women for some reason aren't attracted to normal guys, like, guys who are in between.
-- Evan PetersSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad.
-- Gary Bettman -
Only those who see that the two sides of all phenomena, visible and invisible, are front and back or beginning and end of one reality can embrace any antagonistic situation, see its complementarity , and help others to do the same, thereby establishing peace and harmony.
-- George OhsawaSource : George Ohsawa (1984). “Macrobiotics: The Way of Healing”, p.55, George Ohsawa Macrobiotic
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Iraq... has also had contacts with al-Qaida. Their ties may be limited by divergent ideologies, but the two sides' mutual antipathy toward the United States and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between them is possible.
-- George Tenet -
there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
-- Gertrude Stein -
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If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.
-- Gijs de Vries -
Disarming behavior, where you have two sides involved in a conflict that everybody has stereotypes of the evil other side that is convinced that they would never ever do something reasonable. If a leader on one of those sides were to defy those stereotypes then it would change everything.
-- Guy Burgess -
The two sides that fought in World War I lived in the same century but in different places. The same is true for World War II. In World War III, both sides are almost everywhere, but they live in different centuries.
-- Haim Harari -
After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.
-- Hemant Joshi -
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Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.
-- Honore de Balzac -
Women have traditionally been either put on pedestals or damned as the source of all sexual temptation and sin. These are two sides of the same coin, since both place women in a nonhuman role. Playboy has opposed these warped sexual values and, in so doing, helped women step down from their pedestals and enjoy their natural sexuality as much as men.
-- Hugh HefnerSource : Interview with Larry Dubois, iplayboy.com. January 1, 1974.
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Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.
-- Ida RolfSource : Ida P. Rolf (1989). “Rolfing: Reestablishing the Natural Alignment and Structural Integration of the Human Body for Vitality and Well-Being”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
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To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.
-- Idries Shah -
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Inviting an invasion by foreigners and instigating one against them are two sides of the same neoconservative coin.
-- Ilana Mercer -
Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.
-- Ivy Baker Priest -
Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.
-- Jack DeeSource : "Question time: Jack Dee". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2009.
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On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.
-- Jackson Pollock -
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Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade
-- Jacqueline CareySource : Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.210, Pan Macmillan
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Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the Bill of Rights most of the time.
-- James Bovard -
The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.
-- James G. Frazer -
What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.
-- James L. Buckley -
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Those who fail to see that population growth and climate change are two sides of the same coin are either ignorant or hiding from the truth. These two huge environmental problems are inseparable and to discuss one while ignoring the other is irrational.
-- James LovelockSource : "Stop blaming the poor. It's the wally yachters who are burning the planet" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2009.
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
-- James Madison -
Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.
-- Jennifer Garner -
Life consists of two sides ... light and dark. Joy and sorrow. Without a balance, one cannot fully experience a full and well-rounded life.
-- JoAnn Ross -
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There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.
-- John Boorman -
Madness and genius are two sides to the same coin.
-- John Hendy -
The great biblical tradition says that loving God and loving one's neighbor are not two separate actions but two sides of the same action. It was the prophet Amos who bore witness to the fact that divine worship is nothing but human justice being offered to God and human justice is nothing but divine worship being lived out.
-- John Shelby Spong -
Like everybody I have many different sides.
-- Juliette Lewis -
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Cooperation and conflict are two sides of the same coin; both arise out of man's relationship with his fellows. The larger the group, the greater the possibility of development through cooperation, and the greater the possibility of conflict.
-- Julius Nyerere -
The proverbist knows nothing of the two sides of a question. He knows only the roundness of answers.
-- Karl ShapiroSource : Karl Shapiro (1964). “the Bourgeois Poet”
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I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.
-- Kel Mitchell -
I am convinced that of all the people on the two sides of the great curtain, the space pilots are the least likely to hate each other. Like the late Erich von Holst, I believe that the tremendous and otherwise not quite explicable public interest in space flight arises from the subconscious realization that it helps to preserve peace. May it continue to do so!
-- Konrad Lorenz -
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I dont accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.
-- Krista Tippett -
If I see one side of somebody, I want to see the other side.
-- Kurt Russell -
Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it's evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.
-- Laurell K. Hamilton -
We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin.
-- Leif Johansson -
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When we came then to the 1967 negotiations we had the problem of one market between two countries fully under the control of the American companies that owned the facilities on both sides of the border.
-- Leonard Woodcock -
I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.
-- Loretta Lynn -
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher -
The longer the game went on, you got the feeling that neither side really wanted to lose.
-- Mark Lawrenson -
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I do jokes about what's funny, and both sides are funny.
-- Mark Russell -
Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected.
-- Mary E. PearsonSource : Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.263, Macmillan
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It was hard to watch, the business side is so big in the game.
-- Mats Sundin -
There are two sides to being pigeonholed. There's, 'Oh, no, I'm going to be Chandler for the rest of my life,' but there's also the fact that getting to play Chandler opened up doors to me. It's now my job to find things that shake it up a little bit.
-- Matthew Perry -
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Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.
-- Michelle Sagara -
This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.
-- Mort SahlSource : Mort Sahl (1976). “Heartland”, New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.
-- Mort Walker -
Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we will also fail on the other.
-- Nicholas Stern -
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The two sides of the equation are the same. We have a tautology. The definition is meaningless.
-- Norman Macbeth -
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes -
Two sides of the same coin, but which side is which?
-- Orson Scott Card -
There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
-- Oscar Levant -
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We do not want to be giving quality sides such as Southampton, Palace, Norwich and the rest eight or nine points start and expect to get back up with them.
-- Paul Ince -
Low carbon, resource efficient solutions and halting then reversing population growth are two sides of the same coin
-- Phil Harding -
In the middle of this it was good to have some moments in which whatever was left of you could sit in silence. When you could remember. When the evidence that had gathered could be sorted. And it was a difficulty if another person imagined these moments were their property. Your life got sliced from two sides like a supermarket salami until there was nothing left in the middle. You were the bits that had been given away right and left to others. Because they wanted the piece of you that belonged to them. Because they wanted more. Because they wanted passion. And you did not have it.
-- Philip O Ceallaigh -
I think utopianism and eschatology are really two sides of the same coin. They both assume that some massively transformative event is going to happen that's going to completely change the nature of society. They only disagree on whether we get a happy ending or all die horribly. And so utopianism is on the wane right now because at the moment most of the plausible candidates for huge historical transformation look like they're going to kill us.
-- Phillip Sandifer -
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And just as love has two sides, so too does Death. While Ismae will serve as His mercy, I will not, for that is not how He fashioned me. Every death I have witnessed, every horror I have endured, has forged me to be who I am -- Death's justice.
-- R.L. LaFevers -
If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.
-- Ray Bradbury -
The Hypotenuse has a square on, which is equal Pythagoras instructed, to the sum of the squares on the other two sides If a triangle is cleverly constructed.
-- Richard Digance -
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Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral's flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief.
-- Richard Widmark -
People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
Political monopoly and economic monopoly are two sides of the same coin, two heads of the same monster. Despite all the claims to the contrary, the essential ideology of Neo-Conservatism is to preserve the status quo, with all of its injustices. Its public relations experts call for "freedom and democracy" without a framework of higher values. They fail to comprehend the need for a paradigm of justice and therefore are blind to what concerns most of the people in the world. This failure is the taproot of terrorism.
-- Robert Dickson Crane -
The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
-- Robert E. Lee -