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• The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.

  Drew Barrymore

  Good Day, Reality, Next Day

  "Drew Barrymore: Don't mention the c-word". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2010.

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• People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.

  Michele Bachmann

  Compassion, Government, People

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• No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

  Hannah Arendt

  Peace, Civilization, Politics

  Hannah Arendt (1963). “On revolution”, Viking Press

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• I can look into someone's eyes and feel like I know her better, versus a phone call, where you can't get that same type of emotion. That's why text messaging gets you in trouble: You can't bond, and emoticons explain only so much.

  Apolo Ohno

  Eye, Phones, Text Messaging

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• Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Drama, Views, Play

  "Imam Rauf: What's right with Islam" by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2010.

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• 'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.

  Jason Reitman

  Writing, Reality, Empowerment

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• I think art has a right — not an obligation — to be difficult if it wishes. And, since people generally go on from this to talk about elitism versus democracy, I would add that genuinely difficult art is truly democratic.

  Geoffrey Hill

  Art, Thinking, People

  "Geoffrey Hill, The Art of Poetry No. 80". Interview with Carl Phillips, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 2000.

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• You're a grown up, and you get to decide what behaviors affect you for five minutes versus what behaviors change you as a person.

  Kelly Williams Brown

  Behavior Change, Minutes, Persons

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• We have come to discover what we suspect is a new political mindset emerging among a younger generation of political leaders socialized on Internet communications. Their politics are less about right versus left and more about centralized and authoritarian versus distributed and collaborative.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Communication, Leader, Political

  Jeremy Rifkin (2011). “The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World”, p.139, Macmillan

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• There's never been a fantasy movie of the epic battle of good versus evil that ended with evil winning.

  David Benioff

  Epic, Winning, Evil

  "Game of Thrones Showrunners on Season 4: It Will Never Be 'The Epic Conflict of Good and Evil'". Interview with Jim Windolf, www.vanityfair.com. March 12, 2014.

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• I think cosmopolitan spirituality is the best, where we go beyond "My teacher is better than yours" or "My meditation form is better than yours." It's not Ford versus Chevy. But it's rather the transition of our limited awareness into eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Thinking

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• Shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Life Is

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• Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Country, Fun, Southern

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• A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.

  Dar Williams

  Song, Play, Albums

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• Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census', and people fall asleep.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Fall, Years, People

  Interview with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. September 27, 2000.

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• I like stories of the classic hero, of good versus evil, the ones in which the good guys wear white and the bad guys wear black... and I love a good sword fight.

  Simon Sinek

  Hero, Fighting, White

  "Fitting In: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money.

  Russell Simmons

  Successful, Giving, Wake Up

  "Hip-hop philosopher". Interview with Lisa-Marie Klimas, www.seventeen.com. February 22, 2007.

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• The issues of wireless versus wireline gets very messy. And that's really an FCC issue, not a Google issue.

  Eric Schmidt

  Fcc, Issues, Google

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• The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and curators valorize the sixties. People who wrote about these artists 30 years ago still write about them in the same ways, often for the same magazines.

  Jerry Saltz

  Writing, Artist, Years

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• The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

  Paul Ryan

  Mistake, Fighting, Would Be

  "Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand's ideas: in the hot seat again". atlassociety.org. April 30, 2012.

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• The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

  Lord Acton

  Sunset, Long, Loser

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• One of the biggest benefits of playing box for a young lacrosse player is in the development of lacrosse IQ.  Because everyone plays with a short stick [in box lacrosse], you have to focus on being a complete lacrosse player versus specializing as an attackman or d-man. That is how your IQ grows and skills improve.

  Peter Lawrence

  Player, Men, Skills

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• We must also reject the false choice of liberty versus security. We can and must have both.

  Tom Ridge

  Choices, Liberty, Rejects

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• I've been around politics a long time. I've seen it at its best and its worst, been at so many events, listened to private conversations versus public speaking, understood the game of it, and in many ways the theatrics.

  Kevin Spacey

  Games, Long, Events

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Sacrifice doesn't really exist on a national level anymore and that's a pretty new thing - most people aren't engaged nationally in some form of service and that changes the way you think about people in your country; you kind of think of them at a distance. And so there's that shift away from some sort of sacrifice - thinking of yourself as the most important thing in the world versus thinking of yourself as some sort of a whole.

  Joe Meno

  Country, Thinking Of You, Distance

  Source: www.mtv.com

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