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• There's Insanity on Both Sides of the Debate When You Argue with an Idiot.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Insanity, Sides

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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, Sides, Sticks

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• The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, History, Sides

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

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• Mindfulness can create a foundation for emotional bonding that allows you to be fully present and authentic during dialogues or a discussion. A mindful approach to entering difficult conversations keeps both parties out of the heat of emotions and able to explore the needs, wants and interests on both sides. Judgement is suspended and, with a strong bond, the mind is able to focus on and look for the mutual benefit of the common goal.

  George Kohlrieser

  Strong, Party, Emotional

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• We all have at least two sides. The world we live in is a world of opposites. And the trick is to reconcile those opposing things. I've always liked both sides. In order to appreciate one you have to know the other. The more darkness you can gather up, the more light you can see too.

  David Lynch

  Creativity, Light, Order

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• The number one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain their self-esteem. You don't hit a man on the head when you've got your fingers between his teeth.

  Kofi Annan

  Self Esteem, Men, Numbers

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• When we came then to the 1967 negotiations we had the problem of one market between two countries fully under the control of the American companies that owned the facilities on both sides of the border.

  Leonard Woodcock

  Country, Two Sides, Borders

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• The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.

  Mort Walker

  War, Army, Two Sides

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• The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we've realized that this incredible natural wealth comes with a price.

  Dan Miller

  Relationship, Blessed, Heart

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• Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

  Horst Kohler

  Leadership, Country, Ideas

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• Walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the same street each with the lamplight of the living room, shining golden, and inside the little blue square of the television, each living family riveting its attention on probably one show; nobody talking; silence in the yards; dogs barking at you because you pass on human feet instead of wheels.

  Geoff Nicholson

  Dog, Night, Journey

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• The two sides that fought in World War I lived in the same century but in different places. The same is true for World War II. In World War III, both sides are almost everywhere, but they live in different centuries.

  Haim Harari

  War, Israel, Two Sides

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• The only resolution is for the aspirations of both sides to be met through two states, where Israelis and Palestinians each live in peace and security. ... Israelis must acknowledge that just as Israel's right to exist cannot be denied, neither can Palestine's. The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.

  Barack Obama

  Israel, Two, Sides

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

  Francis Bacon

  Dark, Decision, Age

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• If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.

  Amos Oz

  Fate, Unhappy, Sides

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• To deny the darkness of the soul is to be but half a human being. But we had both sides.

  Ray Manzarek

  Soul, Darkness, Half

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• Even as a supporter of Roe v. Wade, I am compelled to acknowledge that the language both sides use on this subject can be unfortunately misleading and unconstructive.... Everyone is worse off for it.

  John F. Kerry

  Abortion, Use, Wade

  "Kerry Speaks About Faith, 'Godly Tasks'" by Michael R. Blood, www.washingtonpost.com. September 18, 2006.

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• We long to connect, all of us. We long to be noticed, to be cared for, to matter. Generosity is the invisible salve on our wound of loneliness, one that benefits both sides, over and over again.

  Seth Godin

  Loneliness, Long, Generosity

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• Management is like making love. There's heat from both sides. You have an instinct to get there. You have no idea what you're really in for, but you do it anyway.

  Bernie Brillstein

  Ideas, Making Love, Sides

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• I don't know the science behind climate change. I can't say one way or another what is the direct impact, whether it's man-made or not. I've heard arguments from both sides, but I do believe in protecting our environment, but without the job killing regulations that are coming out of the Environmental Protection Agency.

  Joni Ernst

  Jobs, Believe, Men

  "Braley, Ernst tear into each other" by James Hohmann, www.politico.com. August 28, 2014.

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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, Sides

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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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• I do jokes about what's funny, and both sides are funny.

  Mark Russell

  Two Sides, Sides, Jokes

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• Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Military, Two Sides, Preparation

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.

  Joichi Ito

  Believe, Japan, Korea

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