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• History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's important is what we make of it; its moral use. By writing history, we can widen readers' thinking and deepen their sympathies in every direction. Perhaps history should show us not how to control the world, but how to enlarge, deepen, and discipline ourselves.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Dream, Writing, Thinking

  Gretel Ehrlich (1989). “Heart Mountain”, Vintage

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• The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In the end, these unavoidable conflicts provide architecture's essential and productive tensions; the tragedy is that so little of it rises above the level imposed by compromise, and that this is the only work most of us see and know.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Art, Responsibility, Vision

  Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

  Jimmy Wales

  Fighting, People, Politics

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• The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed.

  Hannah Arendt

  Truth, Real, Lying

  "Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth & Morality: Insights from The Origins of Totalitarianism", www.openculture.com. January 24, 2017.

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• Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Fall, Character, Writing

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• Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles.
  [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

  Horace

  Poetry, Substance, Trifles

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• The man is either mad or his is making verses.
  [Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.]

  Horace

  Men, Mad, Poet

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• The reason we have the stars twinkle at night is because the light is being kind of blurred by the atmosphere around the Earth. That is why the Hubble Space Telescope is so good, because it is above the atmosphere. So it is kind of like looking at the sun from the bottom of a swimming pool, versus looking at the sun above the swimming pool.

  Michael J. Massimino

  Stars, Swimming, Night

  "NASA Astronaut Discusses Gravity and the Dangers of Spacewalking". Interview with Alejandro Rojas, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2013.

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• It [TV] is the cancer of film. It's why people can't be educated to film. In the late '60s, we expected to see a movie or two every week and be stimulated, excited and inspired. And we did. Every week after week. Antonioni, Goddard, Truffaut - this endless list of people. And then comes television and home video. I know how to work exactly for the big screen, but it doesn't matter what I think about the art of movie-making versus TV.

  Jack Nicholson

  Art, Cancer, Home

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• The problem we have is not Democrats versus Republicans. It is a Washington cartel. I've said many times the biggest divide we have politically is not between Republicans and Democrats. It's between career politicians in both parties and the American people.

  Ted Cruz

  Party, Careers, People

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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• I think it's very important to know what you want to do next versus just leave it up to chance, really position yourself in the right footings to get to where you want to be.

  Kellan Lutz

  Thinking, Important, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• When it comes to the whole debate today over evolution versus creation, Jesus affirmed the early chapters of Genesis were accurate when He said, "Have you not read, that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female" (Matthew 19:4). Adam and Eve didn't come on the scene after billions of years of mutations and evolution. No. God created them all the way back in the beginning-just like Moses reported in the Book of Genesis.

  Charlie Campbell

  Bible, Jesus, Book

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• Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, humility is often self-proclaimed. The Church is most definitely supposed to be a hospital for the spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically sick, hurting, and broken individual, yet ironically, many of its critics are those who ran away and permanently denounced its members after they visited and felt that they were sneezed on.

  Criss Jami

  Hurt, Humility, Black And White

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.26, Criss Jami

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• Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He's not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced. God is both and neither.

  Criss Jami

  Simple, Names, Wings

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.8, Criss Jami

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• Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Numbers, Unions, Collectives

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• I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.

  Edward Norton

  Character, Interesting, Ends

  "Edward Norton in the Kingdom of Cannes". Interview with Annette Insdorf, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2012.

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• I don't love Photoshop; I like imperfection. It doesn't mean ugly. I love a girl with a gap between her teeth, versus perfect white veneers. Perfection is just... boring. Perfect is what's natural or real; that is beauty.

  Marc Jacobs

  Girl, Real, Mean

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• So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.

  Jesse Jackson

  Technology, Skin Color, Play

  "Rev. Jesse Jackson on Fallout From Firing of Shirley Sherrod". Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. July 25, 2010.

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• The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again... just singing one song, the national anthem.

  Hugh Jackman

  Song, Night, Australia

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• Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?

  Katherine Heigl

  Reality, Way, Plans

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• So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Drama, Knowing, People

  "Ellen DeGeneres Sits Down with The Four Agreements Author don Miguel Ruiz". www.oprah.com. October 2001.

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• You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Humor, Commitment, Two

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• Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

  John Cusack

  Art, Men, Challenges

  "John Cusack: 'I'm not a scenester. I'm out for a few months, then I disappear'". Interview with Jason Solomons, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2012.

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• It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Country, Judging, Twelve

  Joseph Brodsky, Cynthia L. Haven (2002). “Joseph Brodsky: Conversations”, p.98, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.

  Jo Brand

  Drama, Comedy, Candle

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