Baruch Spinoza
Philosopher, Rationalist
"No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides."
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Two Sides
235 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Aesop
Fabulist
"Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either."
Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become radiant of beauty. There seem to be two sides of this world, presented us at different times, as we see things in growth or dissolution, in life or death. And seen with the eye of the poet, as God sees them, all things are alive and beautiful."
Ruth Graham
Author, Speaker
"Temptation and testing (or a trial) are two sides of the same coin. Satan uses an occasion or a person to tempt us to fall; God uses the same to try us and make us stronger."
Ayn Rand
Philosopher, Novelist
"There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil."
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"What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines."
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"We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin."
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"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides."
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"Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides"
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"Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman."
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"When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty."
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"There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman."
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"I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something."
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"Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing."
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"In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can't switch gears. It's a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they're the same thing."
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"People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love."
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"If I see one side of somebody, I want to see the other side."
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"I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side."
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"If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up."
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"Like everybody I have many different sides."
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"If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none."
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"Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact."
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"Sustainable development and climate change are two sides of the same coin"
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"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage fear through learning, understanding, rationality, controlled imagination, preparation, mental focus (including distraction) and a gratitude attitude is very helpful.]"
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"I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express."
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