Dichotomy Quotes

• Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

  Pablo Picasso

  Happiness, Hate, Artist

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• Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.

  Morena Baccarin

  Grief, Emotion, Spontaneity

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

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• The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

  Potter Stewart

  Rights, People, Growth

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• False dichotomies are often at the heart of discord.

  Deborah Tannen

  Heart, Discord

  Deborah Tannen (1998). “The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue”, Random House Incorporated

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• In Western culture, there's a dichotomy between the easy narratives of God and the Devil. I now believe in this greater overarching spiritual thing. We are the light and the dark, and have to own the darkness. It's part of us. It's not evil. It's needed. You need to own both of them to be whole. Absorb it, and live it as part of your life.

  Kevin Sessums

  Spiritual, Believe, Dark

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I have often been amused by our vulgar tendency to take complex issues, with solutions at neither extreme of a continuum of possibilities, and break them into dichotomies, assigning one group to one pole and the other to an opposite end, with no acknowledgment of subtleties and intermediate positions and nearly always with moral opprobrium attached to opponents.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Opposites, Issues, Opponents

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History”, p.378, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Dichotomy = operation performed on lesbians to make them normal.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Normal, Operations

  The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan (2001), entry for 11 Oct 1977.

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• I love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know it's a dichotomy.

  Eva Mendes

  Men, The End Of The Day, Ends

  "Sneak Peek: Eva Mendes in W Magazine". W Magazine Interview, www.foxnews.com.

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• Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.

  Paul Ryan

  Believe, Thinking, Government

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• It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Artist, Essence, Interesting

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• That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.

  Jock Sturges

  Artist, Practice, Consumption

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• The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.

  Ann Macbeth

  Art, Film, Term

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• We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.

  Nelson Mandela

  War, Rights, Racism

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• This is a concept that western culture has forgotten : everything is one! The idea of dichotomy is deeply wrong and nothing is better than a great symbol of China, the Tao, the wheel of yin and yang that represents life. The universe is the harmony of opposites, because there is no water without fire, there is no female with no male, there is no night without day, there is no sun without the moon ... there is no good without evil! This symbol is perfect since the white and black are embracing each other; inside the white there is a black point and inside the black there is a white point.

  Tiziano Terzani

  Moon, Night, Opposites

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• Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Power, Greatest Fear

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our devotion to democracy, but we sadly practice the very opposite of the democratic creed.... This strange dichotomy, this agonizing gulf between the ought and the is, represents the tragic theme of man's earthly pilgrimage.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Commitment, Opposites, Practice

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme positions lies somewhere between them. More fruitful perspectives often require that we step off the line to a site outside the dichotomy.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Lying, Perspective, Alternatives

  Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.51, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The way to 'get there' is to 'be there'

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Way

  Neale Donald Walsch (2011). “Conversations with God, Book 3: Embracing the Love of the Universe (Anniv)”, p.393, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• Try seeing your world and yourself this way, eyes open to whatever is before you, mind free of dichotomies. Are you good or bad, fragile or tough, wise or foolish? Yes. And so am I.

  Martha Beck

  Wise, Eye, Mind

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• The great apparent dichotomy is that the more we give, the more we get.

  Stephen Covey

  Law Of Attraction, Giving, Attraction

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

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• When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women?

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Nursing, Clothes

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• I'm really interested in the idea of anomynity and familiarity. And sunglasses, you know, are so indicatitve of that. I mean, they're worn by some people to hide themselves. But they're also a fashion statement, meant to be noticed. So there's a dichotomy there.

  Sarah Dessen

  Fashion, Mean, Ideas

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• There is no dichotomy between man and God's image. Whoever tortures a human being, whoever abuses a human being, whoever outrages a human being, abuses God's image.

  Oscar Romero

  Men, Abuse, Outrage

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• The distinction between mind and body is an artificial dichotomy, a discrimination which is unquestionably based far more on the peculiarity of intellectual understanding than on the nature of things.

  Carl Jung

  Understanding, Mind, Intellectual

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.76, Psychology Press

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• Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

  Edward Bernays

  Giving, Looks, Moments

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