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• Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or.

  Eileen Wilks

  Life And Death, Doe, Life Death

  Eileen Wilks (2010). “Blood Magic”, p.283, Penguin

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• Monsters, among other brutes, are the ones without guilt feelings. Perhaps Hitler did not have any, or Himmler, or Stalin. Maybe Mafia bosses do not have any guilt feelings either, or maybe their remains are just well hidden in the cellar. Even aborted guilt feelings...All men need guilt feelings.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, Boss, Feelings

  Pope Benedict XVI (2006). “On conscience: two essays”, Natl Catholic Bioethics Center

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• We all tend to go to extremes; some rely only on their own preparation and look for nothing more; others, as I say, tend to despise preparation and trust to the unction, the anointing and the inspiration of the Spirit alone. But there must be no "either/or" here; it is always "both/and." These two things must go together.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Inspiration, Two, Preparation

  D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1972). “Preaching and Preachers”, p.305, Zondervan

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• It's not an 'either/or,' it's an 'and.' You can be serious and play.

  Tim Brown

  Motivation, Inspiration, Play

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• Perfectionism and optimalism are not distinct ways of being, an either-or choice, but rather they coexist in each person. And while we can move from perfectionism toward optimalism, we never fully leave perfectionism behind and never fully reach optimalism ahead. The optimalism ideal is not a distant shore to be reached but a distant star that guides us and can never be reached. As Carl Rogers pointed out, ‘The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination

  Tal Ben-Shahar

  Stars, Good Life, Moving

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• I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both.

  Angela Davis

  Believe, Feminist, Sides

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• In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.

  Primo Levi

  Order, Diversity, Growth

  Primo Levi (1995). “The Periodic Table”, Schocken

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• A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It's either-or.

  Art Alexakis

  Rocks, People, Singers

  "Clearly A Success / Art Alexakis isn't typical flighty rock star". Interview with James Sullivan, www.sfgate.com. November 23, 1997.

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• I am not against standardized tests. There are tests and tests and tests, and, to simplify, the ones I favor are criterion-referenced tests of skills, aligned with the curriculum. Social and emotional skills are important but skills are too. I find it heartbreaking that this is so often seen as an either-or choice. To get to the richness of studying literature, for example, you must first be an adept and confident reader. Whether you are is something a good test can measure.

  Nicholas Lemann

  Emotional, Skills, Choices

  "Ask the Author Live: Nicholas Lemann on Higher Education". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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• I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets; it's not either/or, it's not over or against.

  Cornel West

  Philosophy, Believe, School

  Source: genius.com

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• Many people think in terms of either/or: either you're nice or you're tough. Win-win requires that you be both. It is a balancing act between courage and consideration. To go for win-win, you not only have to be empathic, but you also have to be confident. You not only have to be considerate and sensitive, you also have to be brave. To do that-to achieve that balance between courage and consideration-is the essence of real maturity and is fundamental to win-win.

  Stephen Covey

  Real, Nice, Maturity

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• One can't say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition. It is simplistic to produce events in pairs and lean them against each other like cards. I suppose if you a playing go or shogi, then such a thing might be helpful, but that is not life.

  Jesse Ball

  Might, Pairs, Events

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• the bus timetable sites are all run by an inbred cabal of malicious gnomes. Who don’t speak English. And who don’t count very well either. Or tell time. And they certainly can’t read maps.

  Robin McKinley

  Running, Speak English, Maps

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• Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I'd always tell her, why can't I do both? Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?

  Sarah Dessen

  Sports, Girly, Smart

  Sarah Dessen (2010). “Along for the Ride”, p.169, Penguin UK

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• It is a matter of perspective, the difference between opponent and partner," Tsukiko says. "You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely. It is difficult to know which face is true.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Differences, Perspective, Opponents

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.311, Random House

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• Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?

  Sarah Dessen

  Knows, Capable

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.149, Penguin

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• The first question we usually ask new parents is : “Is it a boy or a girl ?”. There is a great answer to that one going around : “We don’t know ; it hasn’t told us yet.” Personally, I think no question containing “either/or” deserves a serious answer, and that includes the question of gender.

  Kate Bornstein

  Girl, Boys, Thinking

  Kate Bornstein (2013). “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us”, p.56, Routledge

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• I liked him first, but it doesn't matter. I still like him. That doesn't matter either. Or at least, it's not supposed to.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Matter, Firsts, Stills

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “The Unwritten Rule”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us.

  Jim Butcher

  Mean, Wicked, Bob

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• They don't have to choose either/or. They can have their cake and mutilate it too.

  Rob Thurman

  Cake

  Rob Thurman (2009). “Deathwish”, p.109, Penguin

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• The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either -- or both -- when needed?

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Spiritual, Humility, Apology

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• If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and religions. We don't find demons in those with whom we disagree. We don't cozy up to people who mouth our jargon. If we are open, we rarely resort to either-or: either creation or evolution, liberty or law, sacred or secular, Beethoven or Madonna. We focus on both-and, fully aware that God's truth cannot be imprisoned in a small definition.

  Brennan Manning

  Children, Law, Ideas

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.42, Multnomah

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• It then becomes necessary to stop short and make a choice: Either/Or. Either one drifts with their absurd system of ideas, believing that this is the human community. Or one dissents totally from their system of ideas and stands as a lonely human being. (But luckily one notices that the others are in the same crisis and making the same choices.)

  Paul Goodman

  Lonely, Believe, Ideas

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.124, New York Review of Books

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• I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or it they try, they will shortly be out of office.

  Milton Friedman

  Believe, Office, People

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• When the question is either/or, the answer is almost alwaysboth/and.

  Bill Crawford

  Answers

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