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  • Rainer Maria Rilke All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Anna Jameson All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
    Anna Jameson
    Anglo-Irish art historian (1794 - 1860)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Samuel Butler An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Nadine Gordimer Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Bill Owens As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Bhagavad Gita As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Comte de Bussy-Rabutin As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.
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  • Bill Kreutzmann At first I missed it, but it was the amazing energy thing that happened during shows, when a lot of people were like Yay Yay Yeah! I missed that for a while. But I don't miss the regular and the business side of that whole thing.
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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  • Bjorn Borg Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.
    Bjorn Borg
    Swedish tennis player (1956 - )
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  • Ada Leverson Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction.
    Ada Leverson
    British writer (1862 - 1933)
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  • Bun E. Carlos Before signing any contract, you have to assume that the guy on the other side of the desk is handing you a shifty piece of paper that works to his advantage. I know that sounds cynical, but it's really that simple.
    Bun E. Carlos
    American drummer (1950 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Susan Sontag Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Bob Dylan But I can't think for you
    You'll have to decide
    Whether Judas Iscariot
    Had God on his side
    The Times They Are A-Changin (1964)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Euripides Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Adolf Loos Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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