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• I finished 'Beautiful Creature,' and I felt somewhat unfulfilled. I felt like this other side of me needed to be released. Some of the songs I left off the album weren't intense enough to be what I wanted. They weren't hard enough.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Beautiful, Song, Albums

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• There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Disappointment, Exaggeration Is

  George Eliot (1996). “Daniel Deronda”, p.350, Wordsworth Editions

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• Icon of Prague, the medieval bridge crossed the Vltava between Old Town and the Little Quarter. Gothic bridge towers rose on both sides, and the whole span — pedestrian-only — was lined by monumental statues of saints.

  Laini Taylor

  Bridges, Icons, Rose

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• I like cats.... When I meet a cat, I say, "Poor Pussy!" and stoop down and tickle the side of its head; and the cat sticks up its tail in a rigid, cast-iron manner, arches its back, and wipes its nose up against my trousers; and all is gentleness and peace.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Cat, Iron, Pussy

  Jerome K. Jerome (2010). “Three Men in a Boat”, Giunti Editore

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• We are aware of yoga only as a technique to gain physical strength, flexibility, or increased health. And indeed these are potent side effects of the practice. But that is what they are: side effects. To focus on these largely insignificant manifestations is to miss the point entirely.

  John McAfee

  Yoga, Practice, Focus

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• The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.

  Laurens van der Post

  Children, Dark, Parent

  Laurens Van Der Post (2010). “A Walk With A White Bushman”, p.49, Random House

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• Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his dreams. Nor does it help me to tell me that the aspirations of mankind

  Thomas Huxley

  Dream, Science, Men

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.358, University of Georgia Press

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• There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which makes a big noise.

  Jules Renard

  Justice, Littles, Noise

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.251, Tin House Books

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• It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

  Jonathan Swift

  Strong, Believe, Army

  Jonathan Swift (1857). “The works of Dean Swift: comprising A tale of a tub, The battle of the books, with thoughts and essays on various subjects, together with The Dean's advice to a young lady on her marriage”, p.250

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• I'm half Scotch-Irish on both sides, and when I lose my temper-brother, I go.

  S. J. Perelman

  Brother, Scotch, Half

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• Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Hair, Friendly, Together

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• Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Fighting, Loss

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches”, p.43, Penguin

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• The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side.

  William McFee

  Men, Warning, Form

  William McFee (1916). “Casuals of the Sea: The Voyage of a Soul”

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• Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?

  Boethius

  Happiness, Quarrels, Estates

  Boethius, Aeterna Press (1964). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.25, Aeterna Press

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• There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Philosophy, Believe, Science

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• To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

  Edwin Markham

  Literature, Things To Do, Oneself

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• It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Argument, Difficult

  Charles Dudley Warner (1870). “My Summer in a Garden”, p.120

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• I know on which side my bread is buttered.

  John Heywood

  Food, Bread, Knows

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.86

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• When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true.

  Blaise Pascal

  Views, Wish, Matter

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• When you're thirty-five, you can't take as much booze ... and I always got a little violent on drink...So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it.

  John Lennon

  Suicide, Drinking, Believe

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• North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  North And South, South, Incessantly

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.76, Vanderbilt University Press

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• Manhattan's probably one of the bluest parts in the country, and Indiana's definitely one of the redder states. I have sympathy for both sides.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Country, Manhattan, Indiana

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. February 28, 2006.

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• If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith increases our faith, and our capacity for faith), if I did not have faith that the works of mercy do lighten the sum total of suffering in the world, so that those who are suffering on both sides of this ghastly struggle somehow mysteriously find their pain lifted and some balm of consolation poured on their wounds, if I did not believe these things, the problem of evil would indeed be overwhelming.

  Dorothy Day

  Pain, Believe, Struggle

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• It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Disappointment, Knowing, Looks

  Ellen Glasgow (0101). “The Sheltered Life”, p.199, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow - that would be too sad and too obvious. Death prefers to do it piecemeal. The meadow is attacked from several sides at the same time. One of us goes one day; another some time afterwards; you have to stand back and look around you to take in what's missing, to grasp the vast slaughter of your generation.

  Alphonse Daudet

  Death, Clever, Fall

  "The art of suffering" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2002.

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