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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• [Walt Shaub] is cleared more than 50 percent of the nominations, Republican nominations that have been provided to him so far, versus 20 percent at this point in the [Barack] Obama transition which I worked on.

  Reince Priebus

  Transition, Nominations, Republican

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• It's a matter of invitations versus context. Twitter is really good at providing context, like, I''m having coffee at Third Rail Coffee.' Foursquare is about invitations to places. In this respect Foursquare has started to replace Yelp for me.

  Jack Dorsey

  Coffee, Matter, Foursquare

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• I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star.

  Jeff Daniels

  Stars, Talent, Knows

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• If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.

  Marc Andreessen

  Morning, Real, People

  "Andreessen on Charlie Rose: 'I Am Creating A Fund'". Interview with Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. February 20, 2009.

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• It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Microsoft, Mankind

  "Oh, What a Tangled Web Silicon Valley Executives Weave". www.wsj.com. March 05, 1998.

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• Healthcare is growing now at about 10 per cent per annum in the U.S. top line, versus 3 per cent for the economy. As someone with a sharp pencil and an eye for this kind of thing, this can't last.

  James Chanos

  Eye, Growing, Lines

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• The thing about being at home versus being out in the world working is, it's a whole different vibe. When I'm home with my kids and partner, I will cook - even though she's a very good cook. She's learned over the years. We started with basics, you know, how to saute onions, how to saute mushrooms.

  Cat Cora

  Home, Kids, Years

  "Chef Cat Cora says "Bon Appetit" at Sundance". Interview with Jane Clark, www.reuters.com. January 20, 2009.

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• As comfortable as I was with my adoption, the nature-versus-nurture question has been a big one for me. I adore my parents, but I always wondered if I would feel a different kind of love-not more or less, just different-for someone who was biologically related.

  Emily Procter

  Adoption, Parent, Different

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• One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.

  Bobby Flay

  Holiday, Men, Games

  "Celebrity Chefs' Christmas Treats & Traditions". Martha Stewart Show, www.goodhousekeeping.com. November 8, 2010.

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• At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.

  Matt Taibbi

  Party, Roots, Tea

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• I try not to get too rattled about things that aren't that important - there's a different outburst for when the kids are reaching for a knife in the kitchen versus the reaction I have when they just won't stop talking. And my wife and I have mellowed out as we've gone along.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Kids, Talking, Knives

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• Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

  Harold Rosenberg

  Struggle, Self, Numbers

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• I should like to bring a case to trial: Prosperity versus Beauty, Cash registers teetering in a balance against the comfort of the soul.

  Amy Lowell

  Soul, Balance, Comfort

  Amy Lowell (1926). “What's o'clock”

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• We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide circles of the American society or wide circles of the Christian community realize this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel versus the anti-Gospel.

  Pope John Paul II

  Christian, Thinking, Circles

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• Mastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity.

  Robin Sharma

  Addiction, Focus, Simplicity

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Jun 09, 2014

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• Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there's an education level that plays into the mix and so if it's inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in.

  Ray Dalio

  Real, Men, Play

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• I've really learned over the years how to control my adrenaline and let it all out when they shoot the gun versus letting the crowd and the lights and the camera get to me.

  Tyson Gay

  Gun, Years, Light

  "Human to Hero: Tyson Gay primed for Olympic challenge", www.cnn.com. May 16, 2012.

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• The thrill of doing television versus features is in television you get to focus more on the characters.

  Lauren Shuler Donner

  Character, Focus, Television

  Source: www.ign.com

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• If we think long term, the younger generation here is better about embracing the world. Not seeing countries boundaries kind of an "us versus them" thing.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• What we're really debating is not security versus liberty, it's security versus surveillance. When we talk about electronic interception, the way that surveillance works is it preys on the weakness of protections that are being applied to all of our communications. The manner in which they're protected.

  Edward Snowden

  Communication, Liberty, Weakness

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• Many books have been written about what the X-factor is, what separates people who win big matches versus those who struggle. Some of it's innate, but there's a piece of it that's learned, embracing those moments.

  Jim Courier

  Struggle, Book, Winning

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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