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• I would assume that there is a greater amount of joy for you in being able to write and help produce your own stuff and make a decent living, but not get rich versus always doing the other stuff that you don’t write, and make more money.

  Julie Delpy

  Writing, Joy, Able

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 22, 2014.

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• I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy. But, I wanted to put a somewhat different spin on it. The whole trope of absolute good versus absolute evil, which was wonderful in the hands of J.R. Tolkien, became cliche and rote in the hands of the many Tolkien imitators that followed.

  George R. R. Martin

  Reading, Hands, Evil

  Source: collider.com

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• What you think you know versus what you actually learn.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Thinking, You Think You Know, Knows

  Source: www.elle.com

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• In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality--the principle of order versus the split atom.

  Ezra Pound

  Order, Ideas, Rose

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• Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth was lost that people don't make war, governments do.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, War, Government

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

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• I'm in favor of free trade, but I think if you had to make a choice between having technological progress versus free trade, you had one or the other, you should always pick technological progress. I think it's an incredibly important variable for creating more prosperity.

  Peter Thiel

  Thinking, Creating, Choices

  Interviewed with Victoria Brown, bigthink.com. November 15, 2010.

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• The education needs in Silicon Valley versus rural Iowa versus Tennessee are very different.

  Andy Ogle

  Education, Iowa, Different

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• The thing that's important for me to focus on is the balancing of the tension between satisfying myself and satisfying an audience, and making something that I think is good and funny, worthwhile, small-"i" important, versus something that's going to do well.

  Andy Richter

  Thinking, Focus, Important

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Usually I object when someone makes over-much of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Men, Thinking, Excellence

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• I like doing live things and plays. You can perfect the laugh or extend the laugh, you can get them on a roll. Versus improv, which I hate. Put it all together. They're more vignettes. Improv makes me slightly anxious because I feel for them.

  Eric Idle

  Hate, Play, Perfect

  "Eric Idle: the Pio Interview". Interview with Kyle Seasly, whitmanwire.com. May 13, 2013.

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• I don't have a least favorite [movie] or favorite anything except love versus non-love. Love's my favorite, non-love's my least favorite.

  Giuseppe Andrews

  My Favorite

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Religious education is only valuable intellectually, if the child is educated in a religion versus [just] about a religion. I don't believe you can have both.

  Susan Jacoby

  Religious, Children, Women

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• There is just something about the common being. My education pretty much came from the streets, just connecting with people, different cultures. I gained the wealth just engaging at that level. I'm still like that. I continue to document everyday people versus the stars.

  Jamel Shabazz

  Stars, People, Everyday

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I can do an acoustic set, I can sit down and sing. And then when I have a huge arena full of people, there's nothing like that. It's the coolest feeling in the world, but I also like to play small intimate shows because I feel you can connect a little more. And that's something I had to learn - how to connect to a big audience versus the small one.

  Avril Lavigne

  Play, People, Feelings

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• We urge the beginner in security buying not to waste his efforts and his money in trying to beat the market. Let him study security values and initially test out his judgment on price versus value with the smallest possible sums.

  Benjamin Graham

  Effort, Trying, Beginners

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• When some people ask me about voting, they would say will you support this candidate or that candidate? I say: "I will support this candidate for one minute that I am in the voting booth. At that moment I will support A versus B, but before I am going to the voting booth, and after I leave the voting booth, I am going to concentrate on organizing people and not organizing electoral campaign."

  Howard Zinn

  People, Support, Voting

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• Star Wars is mythology. Its like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. Its the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless.

  Michael Franti

  Stars, War, Long

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• Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor.

  Mario Monti

  Mean, Europe, Prejudice

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• I think my favorite movie is Joe Versus the Volcano - or maybe Multiple Maniacs by John Waters.

  Justin Kirk

  Thinking, Volcanoes, Water

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• This is a world that is much more uncertain than the past. In the past we were certain, we were certain it was us versus the Russians in the past. We were certain, and therefore we had huge nuclear arsenals aimed at each other to keep the peace. That's what we were certain of... You see, even though it's an uncertain world, we're certain of some things. We're certain that even though the "evil empire" may have passed, evil still remains.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Past, Evil

  "Bush, in his own words" by Jacob Weisberg, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2000.

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• Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!

  Edward Abbey

  Reality, Appearance, Damn

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.11, RosettaBooks

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• The moment the game (AL Pennant versus the Twins) was over I sprinted for the dugout. The fans were pouring onto the field. If they'd caught me they'd have torn my uniform into shreds for souvenirs.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Games, Fans, Pouring

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• Consider, for example, lust versus love. When we lust after someone or something, we think in terms of what they (or it) can do for us. When we love, however, our thoughts are immersed in what we can give to someone else. Giving makes us feel good, so we do it happily. But when we lust, we only want to take. When someone we love is in pain, we feel pain. When someone whom we lust is in pain, we only think in terms of what that loss or inconvenience means to us.

  David J. Lieberman

  Pain, Mean, Loss

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• My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teaching, Thinking, People

  "Why Revive ‘Cosmos?’ Neil DeGrasse Tyson Says Just About Everything We Know Has Changed". Interview with David Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

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• A 2001 survey of business owners with MBAs conducted by the Rochester Institute of Technology found that money was the primary motivator for only 29% of women, versus 76% of men. Women prioritized flexibility, fulfillment, autonomy and safety.

  Warren Farrell

  Technology, Men, Mba

  "Are Women Earning More Than Men?". www.forbes.com. May 12, 2006.

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