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• I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed.

  Mae West

  Marriage, Lying, Sleep

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• Whenever I think about an issue, I always argue the opposite side of it. So, when I ultimately decide on a course of action, I've already been through all the conceivable scenarios, and I'm going to go for it.

  Kenneth I. Chenault

  Leadership, Thinking, Opposites

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• Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions where the players have castled on opposite sides.

  Alexander Kotov

  Learning, Player, Opposites

  Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov (2012). “The Art of the Middle Game”, p.51, Courier Corporation

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• Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Girl, Women, Holding On

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• These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faces, Facts, Contradiction

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.26, editionNEXT.com

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• The person is only a phenomenon, the principle is behind it. Thus from both sides, simultaneously, we find the breaking down of personalities and the approach towards principles, the Personal God approaching the Impersonal, the personal man approaching the Impersonal Man.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Personality, Principles

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.87, editionNEXT.com

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• We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.[so we can see the bright side of everything]

  Earl Nightingale

  Gratitude, Dark, Light

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• When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun. There is always a bright side - even if only that it is not worse...and it can always be worse

  Helen Keller

  Gratitude, Shadow, Faces

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• Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gratitude, Fire, Circles

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.151

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• A disposition to dwell on the bright side...is like gold to its possessor.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Gratitude, Gold, Disposition

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• Could Afghanistan become another Vietnam? Is the United States facing another stalemate on the other side of the world? Premature the questions may be, three weeks after the fighting began. Unreasonable they are not, given the scars scoured into the national psyche by defeat in Southeast Asia. For all the differences between the two conflicts, and there are many, echoes of Vietnam are unavoidable.

  R. W. Apple

  Fighting, Echoes, Two

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• We're stuck. We're stuck between the East and the West. Between the past and the future. On the one hand there are the secular modernists, so proud of the regime they constructed, you cannot breathe a critical word. They've got the army and half of the state on their side. On the other hand there are the conventional traditionalist, so infatuated with the Ottoman past, you cannot breathe a critical word. They've got the general public and the remaining half of the state on their side.

  Elif Safak

  Army, Past, Hands

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• In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone.

  Alexis Korner

  Age, Tables, Dinner

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• It ended up being a great quarter across the country. The national trend was more on the IT (information technology) side of things. When you look at Southern California and San Diego specifically, it's driven largely by the life sciences and biotech side of things.

  Don Williams

  Country, Technology, California

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• The whole race, which is now called Gallic or Galatic,is madly fond of war,high-spirited and quick to battle,but otherwise straightforward and not of evil character.For at any time or place and on whatever pretext you stir them up,you will have them ready to face danger,even if they have nothing on their side but their own strength and courage.

  Strabo

  War, Character, Race

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• All of us, I suspect, imagine that a world exists from which we alone have been excluded; all of us have our noses pressed against the glass. But if we contemplate our own lives, not the phantom life on the other side, we might find things in them to envy-a family that’s intact; a job we like; excellent health (the thing we take for granted and on which all happiness depends). Good fortune is there, however sporadic, however modest, however difficult to achieve. The trick is to recognize it.

  James Atlas

  Jobs, Glasses, Envy

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• A gentleman can see a question from all sides without bias.
  The small man is biased and can see a question only from one side.

  Confucius

  Men, Gentleman, Bias

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I am ashamed of a human race that can continue to allow the sordid ambitions of politicized groups who genuinely feel that right is on their side, and can therefore instigate such atrocities in the name of their own sense of right and wrong.

  Ralph Steadman

  Ambition, Names, Race

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• Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Students, Poor, Grad

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• The extremists are talking too loudly, and everyone is convinced that only he is on the right side. It’s not just Jews against Arabs. It’s the Orthodox versus those who don’t think they can keep all six hundred and thirteen commandments of the Bible. It’s rich people versus poor people. At some point, something came over Israel so that everyone has his own ideas—and everyone else is an enemy. It’s a dialogue among deaf people and it is getting more and more serious.

  Reuven Rivlin

  Thinking, Israel, Talking

  "The One-state reality" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 2014.

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• I know the other side. I know what awful golf is.

  David Duval

  Golf, Awful, Knows

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• The winner in a political contest is determined by the number and the effectiveness of the activists on the respective sides.

  Morton Blackwell

  Effectiveness, Numbers, Political

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• It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.

  Richard Whately

  Truth, Wish, Sincerely

  Richard Whately (1854). “Essays (second Series) on Some of the Difficulties in the Writings of the Apostle Paul: And in Other Parts of the New Testament”, p.18

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• No hint of genuine charity ameliorates our vision of society, once sentimentalism has been laid side. What passes for cooperation turns out to be a mixture of opportunism and exploitation. Scratch an altruist and watch a hypocrite bleed.

  Michael Ghiselin

  Hypocrite, Vision, Watches

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• Our life is like a land journey, too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up the steep grades; but, on the summits of the mountain, you have a magnificent view—and your eyes are full of happy tears—and you want to sing—and wish you had wings! And then—you can’t stay there, but must continue your journey—you begin climbing down the other side, so busy with your footholds that your summit experience is forgotten

  Lloyd C. Douglas

  Distance, Eye, Journey

  Lloyd C. Douglas (2012). “The Robe”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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