Both Sides Quotes - Page 17

• Same-sex marriage confuses the balance that God created when he created male and female. He created a balance, where both sides would bring something to the table that would reflect the uniqueness of the creation. There is no reflection of the uniqueness of creation in same-sex marriage.

  Tony Evans

  Sex, Reflection, Balance

  Source: www.gospelherald.com

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• It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Judging, Weapons, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

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• Derivative trading with mark-to-market accounting degenerates into mark-to-model. Two firms make a big derivative trade and the accountants on both sides show a large profit from the same trade.

  Charlie Munger

  Two, Degenerates, Sides

  Source: www.calculatedriskblog.com

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• When we get to the point, as we one day will, that both sides know that in any outbreak of general hostilities, regardless of the element of surprise, destruction will be both reciprocal and complete, possibly we will have sense enough to meet at the conference table with the understanding that the era of armaments has ended and the human race must conform its actions to this truth or die.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Race, Understanding

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• The India-Nepal border should not be a barrier but a bridge which helps bring prosperity to both sides.

  Narendra Modi

  Bridges, India, Borders

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• The Chinese military budget today is officially listed as, I think, about $15 billion. But even if you double it, that's only a tenth of ours. So the possibility of China challenging the United States for the next ten years over the Pacific is next to zero. There could be a conflict between us and China over Taiwan, but I think that, too, will not occur with the proper policies on both sides.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Zero, Military, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

  Robert Townsend

  Business, Mistake, Two

  Robert Townsend (1988). “Further up the organization”, HarperCollins

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• It's not that the grass is greener on the other side, it's that you can never be on both sides of the lawn at the same time.

  Laura Fraser

  Grass Is Greener On The Other Side, Sides, Lawns

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• I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.

  Sam Ervin

  Country, War, Sacrifice

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• The Palestinians are fighting with human suicide bombers, that's all they have. The Israelis... they've got one of the most powerful military machines in the world. The Palestinians have nothing. So who are the terrorists? I would make a case that both sides are involved in terrorism.

  Ted Turner

  Suicide, Powerful, Military

  "Ted's tears". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2002.

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• When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice so that the whole affair would not be seen for what it was: a meaningless waste of millions of lives. Logically, if the flower of youth had been cut down in Flanders, the survivors were not the flower: the dead were superior to the traumatized living. In this way, the virtual destruction of a generation further increased the distance between the old and the young, between the official and the unofficial.

  Robert Hughes

  Distance, War, Flower

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• I don't want to involve myself in the various arguments about why Israel was created . . . . . I want to deal with the situation at hand which is the ongoing killing on both sides. . . . . . . It's true that there's also much oppression of Palestinians in Arab countries, where Palestinians aren't allowed to vote or own property and are treated as second class citizens and pawns in the fight against Israel. But I'm not going to spend my time on this since there is isn't a whole lot I can do about it.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Fighting, Hands

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• This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today, a competitive marketplace - that's an idea that both sides embrace.

  David Axelrod

  Two Sides, Ideas, People

  "Sen. Graham & David Axelrod on "This Week"". "This Week" with Jake Tapper, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 14, 2010.

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• As a young victim of bullying and then, later, a vindictive perpetrator of violence myself, I've known both sides of this experience, and I tried very hard in the writing here to be as absolutely honest as I possibly could, to not romanticize myself or my past actions or cowardly inactions in any way.

  Andre Dubus

  Bullying, Writing, Past

  Source: therumpus.net

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• From an over-arching point-of-view, in war there is heroism on both sides. Obviously, the victor gets the spoils, the victor gets to write history, but there's heroism and compassion on both sides, and to me that's very important.

  Russell Crowe

  War, Writing, Compassion

  "The Water Diviner - Russell Crowe interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• When I think of my background, if I was privileged on any level, it was in terms of the kind of exposure to experience and bohe-mian cultural influence that my parents and my uncles and my grandfather gave me. On both sides I come from an extremely eccentric, artsy, intellectually intense, activist family.

  Edward Norton

  Uncles, Thinking, Parent

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• Global war has become Frankenstein's monster, threatening to destroy both sides.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Monsters, Sides

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• I grew up with him [Michael Jackson] and I've spent a lot of time at Neverland and nothing has ever happened with me in any way. You have to look at both sides. I do think it is very convenient that his album came out and all this stuff is happening. I definitely do think that's very convenient... It really hurts me to see that his whole life is ruined.

  Nicole Richie

  Hurt, Thinking, Stuff

  "Alicia Keys, LL Cool J, Ludacris Denounce Treatment Of Jackson". Interview with Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. November 21, 2003.

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• The level of trust is extraordinarily low and the level of suspicion extraordinarily high, and with good reason and on both sides. The press has hunkered down for very good reason, because it's being treated like a mushroom.

  Ted Gup

  Mushrooms, Levels, Sides

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad for both sides. But I don't think the forces are there (that could carry out) an uprising against the leadership. The people that could initiate it are in Israeli prisons. And what could they hope to achieve? In the end, they're too weak to end the Israeli occupation.

  Tom Segev

  Mistake, Thinking, Uprising

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It's possible to do your best work at your highest level without competing. I'm not anticompetition, but at an individual level, it can be degrading for both sides. And it doesn't have to be that way. I've done pretty well at getting past that sort of thing, and it's a relief not to have the rancor.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Past, Way, Sides

  Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004.

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• Both sides go the bargaining table holding cards quite close to the chest and bluffing like crazy, .

  Andrew Zimbalist

  Crazy, Cards, Tables

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• Let us, on both sides, lay aside all arrogance. Let us not, on either side, claim that we have already discovered the truth. Let us seek it together as something which is known to neither of us. For then only may we seek it, lovingly and tranquilly, if there be no bold presumption that it is already discovered and possessed.

  Saint Augustine

  Arrogance, Together, May

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• In this new digital landscape, this sort of international marketplace, it's come full circle, and I wanted to take advantage of my talent relations on both sides of the Atlantic.

  Colin Callender

  Circles, Digital, Sides

  Source: deadline.com

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• When I did Nicholas Nickelby originally, that was a co-production between the new Channel 4, Polygram in Europe and Mobil Oil in America, and I have been involved in working on co-productions for years on both sides of the Atlantic and that's very much at the core of what Playground is doing. So marrying, finding projects that can be co-produced and can be produced using the very best talent from both sides of the Atlantic that's absolutely right at the center of what Playground is doing.

  Colin Callender

  Oil, America, Years

  Source: deadline.com

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