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"The idea that growth equals profitability is a misconception. If you can't afford the financial or qualitative side of growth, it can just as easily put you out of business."
"I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do."
"I feel that most gay men are so much more in touch with a certain kind of sensitivity that heterosexual men aren't allowed to be in touch with, their feminine side. To me they're whole human beings, more so than most of the straight men that I know."
"Providence is always on the side of the last reserve."
"Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told."
"Intelligent people are always on the unpopular side of anything."
"A gentleman can see a question from all sides without bias. The small man is biased and can see a question only from one side."
"Death is the side of life which is turned away from us."
"The thing is with me I look on the brighter side of everything.There's no point being pessimistic or being worried about too many things because frankly life's too short."
"In all religions, we make a choice about what we emphasize, and I choose to come down on the side of a loving God."
"Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides."
"So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof"
"Lets not push it under the rug, or push it to the side because, no matter what, it's going to keep coming up. You know, if you never deal with that dirt up under the carpet, it's going to get larger and larger, and it's going to keep coming up."
"The only time I ever find my dealings with God less than clear-cut is when I'm not being honest with Him. The fuzziness is always on my side, not His."
"Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things."
"I'm interested in the gorgeous side of life, but also familiar with the dark side too."
"Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side."
"In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change."
"If I see one side of somebody, I want to see the other side."
"I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side."
