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"It's so effortless to let my loneliness defeat me, make me mold myself to whatever would (in some way - but not wholly) relieve it. I must never forget it... I want sensuality and sensitivity, both... Let me never deny that... I want to err on the side of violence and excess, rather than to underfill my moments."
"Change is always subjective. All through evolution you find that the conquest of nature comes by change in the subject. Apply this to religion and morality, and you will find that the conquest of evil comes by the change in the subjective alone. That is how the Advaitic system gets its whole force, on the subjective side of man."
"These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides."
"Whenever there is a conflict between the pure heart and the intellect, always side with the pure heart."
"The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side"
"Lacking positive myths to guide him, many a sensitive contemporary man finds only the model of the machine beckoning him from every side to make himself over into its image."
"I love [Kim Kardashian] nude selfies. Like, I love the ones from the side, the back ones, and the front. I just love seeing her naked."
"The trouble is, the other side can do magic too, Prime Minister."
"Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick his nose again... and again... and again..."
"It takes more strength to cry, admit defeat. I have truth on my side, you only have deceit."
"I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence."
"You will find that God is always by the side of the fearless."
"Even if the whole of India, ranged on one side, were to declare that Hindu-Muslim unity is impossible, I will declare that it is perfectly possible."
"No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side."
"I'm feelin' electric tonight Cruising down the coast goin' 'bout 99 Got my bad baby by my heavenly side I know if I go, I'll die happy tonight"
"American democracy and the Soviet system may peacefully exist side by side and compete with each other. But one cannot evolve into the other."
"I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to."
"When management and labor (employer and employee) both understand they are all on the same side, then each will prosper more."
"I think that most women know what happens that leads you to a point where you're not even looking for intimacy anymore. You're just looking for the physical side of it and not the emotional side of it."
"My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine."
