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There's Insanity on Both Sides of the Debate When You Argue with an Idiot. -- Ernie J Zelinski
When it came down to it, he just wasn't that engaged. You had to be engaged to be a vegetarian; you had to be engaged to sing "Both Sides Now" with your eyes closed; when it came down to it, you had to be engaged to be a mother. -- Nick Hornby
Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. -- Paul Rodriguez
Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent. -- Jimmy Carter
He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious. -- Yogi Berra
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story. -- Walter Cronkite
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. -- David Viscott
There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime. -- Bill Janklow
I like disagreement because it forces both sides to question their own opinions and why they feel that way. -- Sam Hunt
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins. -- Ulysses S. Grant
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945. -- Queen Elizabeth II
Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit. -- Chen Shui-bian
Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis. -- Norman Finkelstein
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce. -- John F. Kennedy
Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. -- Harry S Truman
I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin. -- Graham Nash
I think in most relationships that have problems, there's fault on both sides. And in order for it to work, there has to be some common ground that's shared. And it's not just one person making amends. -- Steve Carell
We live in an increasingly sophisticated world that makes it difficult to make simple comments on stuff. There are too many people on both sides of the border who are taking advantage of circumstances and the situation. -- Arlo Guthrie
I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death. -- Al Green
Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there. Since then, I've tried to make up for the potato famine by making the potato the only vegetable that passes these lips. -- Art Donovan
I know that, as a bisexual, sometimes people who are gay or lesbian look down upon the bisexual community as well and assume that people who are bisexual just don't know what they want or are just playing both sides of the fence, and that's not the case, either. -- Crystal Bowersox
Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship. -- Ron Wyden
I follow politics in a big way, and always have since I was a kid. I've got opinions, but they're opinions on both sides - not just anti-Republican, which is a real popular thing for a rap artist to do. If you dis Republicans, nobody will get mad. I think the two-party system sucks. It's absolutely ignorant. -- Sir Mix-a-Lot
Perhaps we should worry less about judging people for being Mormon or Baptist or Muslim or gay or straight or black or white or Latino or by their religious or political brands and worry more about electing thoughtful, serious and ethical politicians on both sides of the political isle who are willing to work together for progress. -- Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business. -- N. T. Wright
My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple's double - she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the '20s, '30s and '40s in the kitchen for my grandmother. -- Gloria Estefan
I picked ducks in a tub in my dorm room. I'd hang deer in the doorway between the bedroom and the little living room in our little apartment there, and I'd skin my deer, and all the guts would go in the tub, and I'd sneak them out so my fellow students on both sides wouldn't see all that, you know. I'd clean fish up there and all. -- Phil Robertson
A fair bargain leaves both sides unhappy. -- George R. R. Martin
I like someone who's suffered from both sides. -- Diane Lane
In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change. -- Nhat Hanh
Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides? -- Orson Scott Card
When you go to war, both sides lose totally. -- Yoko Ono
War is the only game in which both sides lose. -- Walter Scott
I am plain-speaking out of both sides of my mouth. -- Mason Cooley
The water is the same on both sides of the boat -- Finnish Proverb
The Iraq war fueled distrust of the press from both sides. -- Bill Dedman
Global war has become Frankenstein's monster, threatening to destroy both sides. -- Douglas MacArthur
... it's important that people who are politically active understand both sides. -- Eva Longoria
Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy. -- Alexander Alekhine
A fair-minded man tries to see both sides of an argument. -- Aesop
I do jokes about what's funny, and both sides are funny. -- Mark Russell
Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides. -- Euripides
I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides. -- Dejan Stojanovic
Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Ground which can be freely traversed by both sides is called accessible. -- Sun Tzu
Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides. -- Albert Bushnell Hart
It's almost inevitable there's going to be an escalation on both sides. -- Bill Luther
A well-balanced person is one who finds both sides of an issue laughable. -- Herbert V. Prochnow
There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides. -- John Stuart Mill
One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels. -- Voltaire
If you can't take both sides, it means you can only play yourself. -- Stella Adler
I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family. -- Eric Ripert
Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary. -- Dolly Parton
To see both sides of a quarrel, is to judge without hate or alarm -- Richard Thompson
We see every day that our very laws have both sides of the fence. -- Jerry Jones
Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right. -- Larry Wall
Both sides are divided and Western countries collaborate with Muslim countries and vice versa. -- Samuel P. Huntington
Trade is a proper and decent relationship, with dignity and respect on both sides. -- David Attenborough
The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border. -- Sitting Bull
To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides. -- Dejan Stojanovic
Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea. -- Henry James
He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides. -- George P. Shultz
I'm half Scotch-Irish on both sides, and when I lose my temper-brother, I go. -- S. J. Perelman
Try taking a stand on just one leg. You need to see both sides. -- Joss Whedon
He who walks in the middle of the roads gets hit from both sides. -- George Schultz
I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides. -- Thomas Haden Church
Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides. -- Scott Bakula
My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question. -- Henrietta Szold
Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis. -- Norman Finkelstein
Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides. -- Noah Feldman
Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides. -- O. Henry
We are not consistent. We have both these dark sides and some light as well. -- Annie Lennox
I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides. -- Ehud Barak
It will be a shame if either side lose, and that applies to both sides. -- Jock Brown
Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale. -- Christina Aguilera
On both sides the troops were commanded by royal princes and they massacred each other mercilessly. -- Matthew of Edessa
Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us. -- John F. Kennedy
The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing. -- Oscar Wilde
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall take flack from both sides."- Unofficial UN Motto -- Robert Asprin
Immigration in America is a highly polarized issue and there are passionate views on both sides. -- Spencer Bachus
I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process. -- Keenen Ivory Wayans
Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once. -- W. C. Sellar
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. -- Francis Bacon
To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides. -- Nhat Hanh
Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue. -- George W. Bush
Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.] -- Horace
Both sides go the bargaining table holding cards quite close to the chest and bluffing like crazy, . -- Andrew Zimbalist
Both sides have scored a couple of goals, and both sides have conceded a couple of goals. -- Peter Withe
I come from a long line of saloon keepers and proselytizers, and I draw from both sides. -- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are. -- Joseph Wambaugh
Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds. -- David Allen
The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides. -- Iain Banks
Marry...into a family that will enable your children to feel proud of both sides of the house. -- Robert E. Lee
Both sides have been playing tremendous cricket over a couple of years and they're both very good units. -- Matthew Hayden
The Battle of Koom Valley is the only one known to history where both sides ambushed each other. -- Terry Pratchett
It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The India-Nepal border should not be a barrier but a bridge which helps bring prosperity to both sides. -- Narendra Modi
I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent. -- Aida Turturro
The game has gone rather scrappy as both sides realise they could win this match or lose it. -- Kevin Keegan
The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear -- John Hume
The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all. -- Oscar Wilde
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides. -- Brendan Behan
The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear. -- John Hume
I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument. -- John Major
The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment. -- Ruth Brown
In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to think both sides of this limit. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
For me I made it clear that I wanted to meet with both sides of the political spectrum. -- Tariq Ramadan
The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy. -- Quentin Crisp
Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides. -- Anna Deavere Smith
John Kerry met with Ralph Nader last week. Both sides of every issue were discussed. And then, Nader spoke. -- Jay Leno
Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides. -- William Godwin
As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither. -- Josh Billings
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side -- Thomas Sowell
If you give Congress a chance to vote on both sides of an issue, it will always do it. -- Les Aspin
The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight. -- J.P. Donleavy

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