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"When we would show any one that he is mistaken, our best course is to observe on what side he considers the subject,--for his view of if is generally right on this side,--and admit to him that he is right so far. He will be satisfied with this acknowledgment, that he was not wrong in his judgment, but only inadvertent in not looking at the whole case."
"I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth."
"And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where I was at all."
"From every mountain side, Let freedom ring."
"I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often."
"Placing blame in marriage is like saying, 'Your side of the boat is sinking.'"
"You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects."
"Can placebos cause side effects? If so, are the side effects real?"
"There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both for you and for others, than activity directed to the improvement of your soul."
"Take one step to the side and it's all absurd."
"I don't know which side is anybody on any more. I don't really care. There is a moment when we have to transcend the side we're on and understand that we are creatures of a higher order."
"Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side."
"We like to pioneer, we like to explore, we like to go down dark alleys and see what's on the other side."
"The point is not where Barack Obama was born, the point is is that we've got congressmen on the Democratic side of the aisle that are questioning the legitimacy of President-elect [Donald] Trump who won in an electoral landslide."
"I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me."
"They don't hardly make 'em like him any more - but just to be on the safe side, he should be castrated anyway."
"My intuition is always on my side. I trust it to be there at all times."
"You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it."
"I think [ unpopular presidential candidates ] indicates, at least on the Democratic side, that we've got more work to do to strengthen our grassroots networks."
"We have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us."
