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• The idea of being in the desert is fundamental, but it's totally relative, and it's about that membrane: the way that one defines self versus the environment.

  Tavares Strachan

  Self, Ideas, Desert

  "Tavares Strachan's Desert Explosion". Interview with Matt Mullen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 1, 2017.

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• Being a down-to-earth type of individual, I feel like I can connect with people on a different level, versus the GOD-like pedestal that people tend to put us on.

  Michael Clayton

  People, Different, Pedestal

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Violence can behave like a disease. That insight gives a different frame of reference that is designed to take the judgment out of it, to take the good-versus-bad-people view out of it.

  Steven James

  Views, People, Giving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Margaret Thatcher was a 20th century visionary who understood the power of individual freedom versus the tyranny of government collectivism. She was a loyal supporter and friend of the United States and her terms as prime minister were marked as the beginning of the resurgence of the economy of the United Kingdom.

  Joe Lhota

  Government, Loyal, Kingdoms

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• There were several points where I would kind of turn to the book and say, "Get thee behind me." I don't think real novelists do that. But I make a distinction between prose that's very efficiency-minded (like, the minimum I can get away with), versus loosening the screws and letting the words spill out beautifully and so on.

  George Saunders

  Real, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In my personal and spiritual life, I reject that. I don't believe in that. I'm always trying to get my mind into a less judgmental place, making less rigid judgments about things like "perverse" versus "pure." But in terms of prose, those sorts of oppositions seem to work.

  George Saunders

  Spiritual, Believe, Always Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it's taken on lethal proportions.

  Wole Soyinka

  Taken, Thinking, World

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• This isn't Republican versus Democrat. This is not right versus left right now. This is not conservative versus populist. This is globalist, America-is-not-first establishment versus those of us who believe America is first. This is an establishment/anti-establishment fight that's going on.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Fighting, America

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The other thing that's useful for me is this notion of the absolute versus the relative:if we walk out and it's a beautiful morning, it's only a beautiful morning because we don't have a broken leg or hemorrhoids or something.

  George Saunders

  Beautiful, Morning, Broken

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have a great deal of concern for any president and the amount of power they accumulate versus congress. I'm a stickler about the idea of separation of powers.

  Rand Paul

  Ideas, President, Separation

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think what we are confronting now is a new war of ideas. It's not communism versus capitalism, but it is authoritarianism versus democracy and representative government. And that is a threat that here in Europe, they feel acutely. They've seen their countries interfered with, bombarded by cyber-attacks, by Russian propaganda, indeed, by Russian troops.

  Adam Schiff

  Country, War, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I'm tall for the weight class. I am built to go in and stand in front of the man and trade bombs - why would I do that? I've got length, I've got reach, I've got speed; I've got footwork and defense, but that's not what's going to be the difference in this fight. It's not a tall guy versus a short guy - It's Chris Algieri versus Manny Pacquiao. It's what I bring to the table versus what he brings to the table. I think a lot of it has to do with my mental preparation and mind going into this fight as well as what we know from Manny.

  Chris Algieri

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• We live in a world of absolute immediacy. It is an interconnected, combustible world, where technology and many other actions have given nonstate actors a reach, into countries and societies, for both good and evil, that we have never seen before. So it isn't a matter of just state versus state challenges or conflict. The bigger problem is nonstate actors.

  Chuck Hagel

  Country, Technology, Evil

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Whether we're talking about what the role of the government is, what you think of the United Nations, political leaders or how to respond to [Hurricane] Katrina and whether it had anything to do with race, across a wide variety of issues we see differences between mainstream black and white American opinion that dwarfs anything in American public opinion, period. Democrat versus Republican, men versus women, conservative versus liberal, the black/white divide is the biggest, one of the biggest in the world, and certainly the largest gap in the United States.

  Michael C Dawson

  Black And White, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Weed, Art, Winning

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• Giants versus Jets Super Bowl. I'm telling you, that's all I want to see.

  Jesse McCartney

  Giants, Want, Super Bowl

  "McCartney's Big Apple sports dreams". Interview with Mary Buckheit, www.espn.com. December 28, 2010.

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• If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Children, Autism, Parent

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• If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Polio Vaccine, Vaccines, Autism

  "Jenny McCarthy on Autism and Vaccines". Interview with Jeffrey Kluger, content.time.com. April 1, 2009.

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• Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

  Jack Lynch

  Communication, Style, Pepsi

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• The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

  Lord Acton

  Issues, People, Political

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• I think the evidence is pretty clear. If you look at various characteristics of carnivores versus herbivores, it doesn't take a genius to see where humans line up.

  William C. Roberts

  Thinking, Looks, Genius

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• If we Americans are split into two meaningful camps, it is not conservative versus liberal. The two camps are the politically awake and the hypnotized.

  Doris "Granny D" Haddock

  Meaningful, Two, Splits

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• This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the conscious mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our hearts, or intuition, another.

  Robert E. Ornstein

  Passion, Heart, Intuition

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• I've always wanted to be a DJ so I could play the music I love for other people. That feeling hasn't changed, but my sets are always evolving. In terms of tailoring to a specific crowd, certainly I do play differently depending on the situation. It's a different feel, for example, in a small club versus a festival.

  Tiesto

  Play, People, Feelings

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Choice of evils debates always produce extremism - people choose what they hope is the lesser evil, then call it good and demonize the other choice. It will be a challenge for your generation to synthesize - to move beyond Us versus Them, to We.

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspirational, Graduation, Moving

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