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• Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear expression also becomes muddled by mere wordplay, affirming this one aspect and denying all the rest. The pivot of Tao passes through the center where all affirmations and denials converge. He who grasps the pivot is at the still-point from which all movements and oppositions can be seen in their right relationship... Abandoning all thought of imposing a limit or taking sides, he rests in direct intuition.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Expression, Opposites

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• By what right does White, in an absolutely even position, such as after move one, when both sides have advanced 1. e4, sacrifice a pawn, whose recapture is quite uncertain, and open up his kingside to attack? And then follow up this policy by leaving the check of the black queen open? None whatever!

  Emanuel Lasker

  Queens, Moving, Sacrifice

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• Having spent alarmingly large chunks of my life studying the white side of the Open Sicilian, I find myself asking, why did I bother?

  Daniel J. King

  Asking Why, White, Chess

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• Anyone who sees only the bright side but not the difficulties cannot fight effectively for the accomplishment of the Party's tasks.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Struggle, Fighting

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.197, China Books

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• When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Football, Player, Grease

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• Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Business, Combination

  Oliver Goldsmith (1809). “The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.76

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• I try to find what is closest to me in the character. There's many sides to personality, but it's a matter of, do you entertain those specific areas of your personality, or are you afraid to entertain them?

  Corin Nemec

  Character, Personality, Trying

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The boring side of business is what makes it work.

  Alan Sugar

  Business, Boring

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• The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes; natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down. We know they have fallen before.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Christian, Country

  Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

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• The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called "patriotism" and "love of sport."

  Sinclair Lewis

  Sports, Baseball, Games

  Sinclair Lewis (2008). “Babbitt (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)”, p.270, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction.

  John Boehner

  Fighting, Iraq, Retreat

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• In early life I had felt a strong desire to devote myself to the experimental study of nature; and, happening to see a glass containing some camphor, portions of which had been caused to condense in very beautiful crystals on the illuminated side, I was induced to read everything I could obtain respecting the chemical and mechanical influences of light, adhesion, and capillary attraction.

  John William Draper

  Beautiful, Nature, Strong

  John William Draper (1973). “Scientific memoirs, being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy”, Ayer Co Pub

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• You're always first when no one's on your side.

  Brandon Boyd

  Your Side, Firsts, Introvert

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• Dolby was in the driver's seat. "Surround Sound" was added. Now we had three speakers behind the screen, two more on the left side of the theater, and two on the right. A closely guarded secret about all this is that you hear the correct balance only if you're sitting in the center of the theater. On the left or right side, those speakers tend to dominate.

  Sidney Lumet

  Surround Sound, Two, Secret

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• Because of the nature of my life, it's difficult for people to recognize that a person can live a full life, and maybe an unorthodox life, and still be on the side of the angels.

  Hugh Hefner

  Angel, People, Unorthodox

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• Gratitude is looking on the brighter side of the life, even if it means hurting your eyes.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Thank You, Gratitude, Hurt

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• The thing is with me I look on the brighter side of everything.There's no point being pessimistic or being worried about too many things because frankly life's too short.

  Prince William

  Attitude, Looks, Pessimistic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

  Peter Straub

  Life, Pain, Half

  Peter Straub (2015). “Ghost Story”, p.302, Penguin

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• Questions are often more effective than statements in moving others. Or to put it more appropriately, since the research shows that when the facts are on your side, questions are more persuasive than statements, don't you think you should be pitching more with questions?

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Moving, Thinking

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• In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Brain, Mind

  "Why right-brainers will rule this century". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2009.

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• Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there. Since then, I've tried to make up for the potato famine by making the potato the only vegetable that passes these lips.

  Art Donovan

  Vegetables, Potatoes, Lips

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• Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the other side of the continent, we find the very same problem awaiting us when we arrive.

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Taught Us, Needs

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.165, Shambhala Publications

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• Mary joins us, she fights at our side. She supports Christians in the fight against the forces of evil. Especially through prayer, through the rosary. Hear me out, the rosary... Do you pray the Rosary each day?

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Prayer, Fighting

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• I think it's fascinating to note that some of the most successful organizations of our time got there by focusing obsessively on service, viewing compensation as an afterthought or a side effect. As marketing gets more and more expensive, it turns out that caring for people is a useful shortcut to trust, which leads to all the other things that a growing organization seeks.

  Seth Godin

  Successful, Caring, Thinking

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• Embracing our dark side gives us a new found freedom to be with the darkness in others. For when I can love all of me, I will love all of you.

  Debbie Ford

  Dark, Giving, Found

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