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• The summer has seized you, as when, last month in Amalfi, I saw lemons as large as your desk-side globe-that miniature map of the world-and I could mention, too, the market stalls of mushrooms and garlic bugs all engorged. Or I even think of the orchard next door, where the berries are done and the apples are beginning to swell. And once, with our first backyard,I remember I planted an acre of yellow beans we couldn't eat.

  Anne Sexton

  Summer, Thinking, Doors

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• That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the same side less than two right angles, the two straight lines, if produced indefinitely, meet on that side on which the angles are less than two right angles.

  Euclid

  Fall, Science, Two

  Euclid, Dana Densmore (2002). “Euclid's Elements: all thirteen books complete in one volume : the Thomas L. Heath translation”, Green Lion Pr

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• Confidence comes from seeing so many sides, angles, views, and tangents. Because when you do select an approach or direction, you are doing so with better/ more complete information.

  Thomas Leonard

  Inspirational, Views, Information

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• Marry...into a family that will enable your children to feel proud of both sides of the house.

  Robert E. Lee

  Marriage, Children, House

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• I had learned volleyball in the Navy, where all the captains and admirals wanted to be spikers, and I found then that a man who can subdue his own desires and master the art of serving others can make himself invaluable. In choosing sides the team captain always chose the good spikers on the first and second choice, but then the spikers would grab his arm and whisper, 'Take Michener.' I was never chosen lower than third, because I was needed. I wasn't good, but I was faithful.

  James A. Michener

  Sports, Volleyball, Art

  James A. Michener (2014). “Sports in America”, p.601, Dial Press

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• Autism, like a rainbow, has a bright side and a dark side and even though it can mean rough weather, it can be beautiful!

  Stuart Duncan

  Beautiful, Mean, Dark

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• You have the Savior of the world on your side. If you seek His help and follow His directions, how can you fail?

  Gary E. Stevenson

  Your Side, World, Helping

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• If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'pro' one side or the other in a conflict.

  Eddie Vedder

  War, Mean, Conflict

  "Eddie Vedder Plays 'Imagine' at Concert, Reinforces Anti-War Stance" by Kory Grow, www.rollingstone.com. July 21, 2014.

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• The Iranians are Moslems and the Iraqi are Moslems. Both are certain that there is no God but Allah and that Mohammed is his prophet and believe it with all their hearts. And yet, at the moment, Iraq doesn't trust Iran worth a damn, and Iran trusts Iraq even less than that. In fact, Iran is convinced that Iraq is in the pay of the Great Satan (that's God-fearing America, in case you've forgotten) and Iraq counters with the accusation that it is Iran who is in the pay of the Great Satan. Neither side is accusing the Godless Soviets of anything, which is a puzzle

  Isaac Asimov

  Believe, Heart, Iran

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• A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

  Carl Jung

  Mean, Special, Energy

  Carl Gustav Jung (1933). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”

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• Man is always separated from what he is by all the breadth of the being which he is not. He makes himself known to himself from the other side of the world and he looks from the horizon
  toward himself to recover his inner being.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Horizon, Looks

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “The Philosophy of Existentialism: Selected Essays”, p.58, Open Road Media

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• Always listen to your heart, because even though its on your left side, its always right.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Heart, Listen To Your Heart, Left

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• The Zionist movement did not send any assistance, financial or otherwise, for the victims of Nazism and it did not allow any other side to provide any kind of aid. The Zionist movement concealed the information that came from within the ghetto walls and concentration camps, news that shed light on what was really happening. If it had to publish anything, it did so by questioning that information and diminishing its importance.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Wall, Ghetto, Light

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• When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you. You can't write if you don't think they're on your side, because then you start to yell at them or preach down to them.

  Tony Kushner

  Writing, Thinking, Your Side

  Interview with Andrea Bernstein, www.motherjones.com. July/August 1995.

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• People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they'll join your side.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Hurt, Your Side, People

  "Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet". Book by James Mann, March 8, 2004.

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• In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the side. People don't listen.

  Chet Baker

  Art, Europe, America

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• I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.

  David Brock

  One Day, Wake Up, Economics

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• Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to ideas that, if stated directly, would seem superficial, stale, frivolous, or false. The line between serious and spurious scholarship is an easy one to blur, with jargon on your side.

  David Lehman

  Hands, Your Side, Ideas

  David Lehman (1992). “Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man”, Poseidon Pr

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• Poetry is the dark side of the moon.

  Charles Wright

  Dark, Moon, Poetry Is

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• The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.

  Gayle Forman

  Opposites, Coins, Flip

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Year”, p.168, Penguin

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• You can't always see both sides of the story. Eventually, you have to pick a side and stick with it. No more equivocating. You have to commit.

  John Mulaney

  Stories, Sticks, Commit

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• One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.

  Ramakrishna

  Pride, Land, Water

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• The smartest side to take in a bidding war is the losing side.

  Warren Buffett

  War, Bidding, Losing

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• If you flip a coin three times and it lands on heads each time, it’s probably chance. If you flip it a hundred times and it lands on heads each time, you can be pretty sure the coin has heads on both sides. That’s the concept behind statistical significance—it’s the odds that the correlation (or other finding) is real, that it isn’t just random chance.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Real, Odds, Land

  T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2006). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health”, p.40, BenBella Books

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• It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others — playing people against one another, making them pursue you.

  Robert Greene

  People, Independence, Fool

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.12, Profile Books

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