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• By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.

  Robert Harris

  Dawn, Sides, Inertia

  Robert Harris (2011). “Enigma”, p.257, Random House

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• Both sides so blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they couldn't see they were all fighting for the same thing.

  Brom

  Hate, Fighting, Sides

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• Things change when someone special comes into your life. Both sides have to give up things. The one thing you don't give up in a good relationship is you--whatever makes you most you. - Jim Olsten (Jane's Grandpa)

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Grandpa

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• The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.

  Quentin Crisp

  Sex, War, Sleep

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• Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall take flack from both sides."- Unofficial UN Motto

  Robert Asprin

  Blessed, Sides, Motto

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• So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof

  John F. Kennedy

  Weakness, Sides, Remember

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961

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• The best relationships were the ones where both sides went out of their way to make sure the other wasn't disappointed.

  Jodi Picoult

  Best Relationship, Way, Sides

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• People are really trying their best. Just like being happy and sad, you will find yourself on both sides of the equation many times over your lifetime, either saying or hearing the wrong thing. Let's all give each other a pass, shall we?

  David Rakoff

  Forgiveness, People, Giving

  David Rakoff (2010). “Half Empty”, p.217, Anchor

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• I find that Americans are all in the middle somewhere, except for the extreme nuts, and extreme nuts on both sides are the loudest. And that's why it feels like we are polarized.

  Christopher Titus

  Nuts, Sides, Middle

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• Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.

  Henry James

  Country, Tombstone, Sea

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• Ground which can be freely traversed by both sides is called accessible.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Sides

  Sun Tzu, General Press (2016). “The Art of War”, p.42, GENERAL PRESS

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• The love of dress is very marked in this attractive animal; he is proud of the lustre of his coat, and cannot endure that a hair of it shall lie the wrong way. When the cat has eaten, he passes his tongue several times over both sides of his jaws, and his whiskers, in order to clean them thoroughly; he keeps his coat clean with a prickly tongue which fulfills the office of the curry-comb.

  Champfleury

  Lying, Cat, Animal

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• The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Military, War, Space

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.49, Verso

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• Strong views exist on both sides but I believe MPs voting for gay people being able to marry too, is a step forward for our country.

  David Cameron

  Country, Strong, Believe

  Twitter post from Feb 05, 2013

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• Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.

  W. C. Sellar

  Writing, Paper, Examination

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• Actually what is happening in the twenty-first century, this is the great century of migration, so we have people from all around the globe going all over the place, and they have to integrate into a society, that society that exists has to integrate with them. Both sides have to work at it. It's not a one-way thing.

  Roma Tearne

  People, Twenties, Migration

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• To us ... the only acceptable point of view appears to be the one that recognizes both sides of reality-the quantitative and the qualitative, the physical and the psychical-as compatible with each other, and can embrace them simultaneously ... It would be most satisfactory of all if physis and psyche (i.e., matter and mind) could be seen as complementary aspects of the same reality.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Science, Reality, Views

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• Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.

  Ajahn Chah

  Meditation, Mind, Woods

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• There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Differences, Wish, Three

  Mary Parker Follett (1957). “Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett”

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• The Bully has a Jekyll and Hyde nature - is vile, vicious and vindictive in private, but innocent and charming in front of witnesses; no-one can (or wants to) believe this individual has a vindictive nature - only the current target of the serial bully's aggression sees both sides; whilst the Jekyll side is described as "charming" and convincing enough to deceive personnel, management and a tribunal, the Hyde side is frequently described as "evil"; Hyde is the real person, Jekyll is an act.

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Real, Believe

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• Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Judging, Listening, Doe

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• To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Way, Sides

  "The Creator" by Dejan Stojanovic, Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd, "Zero and Sign," (p. 23), 2000.

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• The development doctrines are doing much harm on both sides of the Atlantic, especially among intelligent mechanics, and a class of young men engaged in the subordinate departments of trade and the law. And the harm, thus considerable in amount, must be necessarily more than merely considerable in degree. For it invariably happens, that when persons in these walks become materialists, they become turbulent subjects and bad men.

  Hugh Miller

  Science, Men, Intelligent

  "The Foot-prints of the Creator: Or, The Asterolepis of Stromness".

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• In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Suicide, War, Loss

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• War is the only game in which both sides lose.

  Walter Scott

  War, Games, Sides

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