Versus Quotes

• As far as horses go, people will ask about one breed versus another. I have to tell you, I really don't have any prejudice one way or another. I treat every horse at face value, how he/she is as an individual.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, People, Prejudice

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a reveling in humiliations that are good unclean fun. A popular venture that is keen to paste—épater—everybody (not just the bourgeoisie), it is the art of the single entendre. Highly staged low life, it guffaws at the pious, the prudish, and the priggish. High cockalorum versus high decorum…. The introduction here, like the translator’s note, tells well the story of the comic tales, anonymous for the most part, usually two or three hundred lines long, of which about 160 exist.

  Christopher Ricks

  Art, Fun, Dirty

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• The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

  Ayn Rand

  Mistake, Fighting, Individualism

  "Is Paul Ryan for or against Ayn Rand?" by Gary Weiss, www.cnn.com. August 14, 2012.

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• Chess is a unique battlefield for human minds and computers - human intuition, our creativity, fantasy, our logic, versus the brute force of calculation and a very small portion of accumulated knowledge infused by other human beings. So in chess we can compare these two incompatible things and probably make projections into our future. Is there danger that the human mind will be overshadowed by the power of computers, or we can still survive?

  Garry Kasparov

  Creativity, Unique, Two

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• America's the great conundrum and the great dream and the great fascination: the new land, the new world, the new temple, the new city, and the great mess. The most handguns, bombs, weaponry, violence, the cop of the world etcetera. All the contradictions. Mediocrity versus something like indigenous jazz, one of the most evolved sophisticated musical forms on the planet.

  Anne Waldman

  Dream, Land, Cities

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Climate, Suggestions, Shifting

  "An interview with Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm". Interview with Keith Schneider, grist.org. October 27, 2004.

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• Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.

  Brian Greene

  Law, Two, Environmental

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• We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Thinking, Climate, Assassins

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• Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.

  Sam Harris

  Thinking, Political, Way

  "Print: Atheism's Poster Boy Sam Harris on the Science of Morality". Interview with Olivia Koski, www.wired.com. November 29, 2010.

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• The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.'

  Thomas Sowell

  Teaching, Men, Rights

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.328, Hoover Press

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• If you're using live bass versus orchestral bass, you've got to make sure that you're not stepping on the toes of the other elements, so you've got to balance it out.

  Serj Tankian

  Balance, Elements, Bass

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 11, 2010.

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• What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.

  Felicia Day

  Media, Space, Stories

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

  Colm Toibin

  Thinking, Play, Fiction

  Interview with Anis Shivani, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2011.

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• A lot of times, I think that what I do for a living has no integrity. 'Once Upon A Time' has changed that to a certain extent because the reaction we get from children out in the world is so fulfilling, I cannot even articulate it. There's nothing like being greeted as Snow White by a hyperventilating child versus Ginnifer Goodwin.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Children, Integrity, Thinking

  "What Made Ginnifer Goodwin 'Freak The Fudge Out?'". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 7, 2013.

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• It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, Class, White

  "The biggest brother". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2003.

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• Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

  Jack Lynch

  Communication, Style, Pepsi

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• This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.

  Allen West

  Country, Opportunity, Greatness

  "Fiery Speech Thrusts Congressional Candidate Into National Spotlight". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Weed, Art, Winning

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• Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

  E. O. Wilson

  Selfishness, Groups, Sin

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• If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Children, Autism, Parent

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• Giants versus Jets Super Bowl. I'm telling you, that's all I want to see.

  Jesse McCartney

  Giants, Want, Super Bowl

  "McCartney's Big Apple sports dreams". Interview with Mary Buckheit, www.espn.com. December 28, 2010.

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• If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

  Thomas Sowell

  Winning, Civilization, Battle

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.328, Hoover Press

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• All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.

  Beth Ditto

  Fashion, Kids, Nerd

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.

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• Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you're reading. It is about what you're reading.

  Maureen Dowd

  Reading, Bells, Pixels

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• Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.

  John Ensign

  Doctors, Issues, Reform

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