“ A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with. ”
- Kenneth A. Wells- Copy
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“ You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect. ”
- Edwin Meese- Copy
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“ Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late. ”
- Thich Nhat Hanh- Copy
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“ First it is ridiculed,Second it is violently opposed,-finally it is accepted as self evident. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
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“ The Moon is opposing Jupiter. Don't get involved, it's their problem. ”
- Jim Critchfield- Copy
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“ When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists. ”
- Nikita Khrushchev- Copy
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“ You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting. ”
- Cyrus Vance- Copy
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“ And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience. ”
- Adam Clarke- Copy
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“ They were struggling before Lee's absence. They were struggling when Lee was here. ”
- Dusty Baker- Copy
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“ Some self-confronting questions: "Where do I want to be at any given time?" "How am I going to get there? "What do I have to do to get myself from where I am to where I want to be?"… "What's the first, small step I can take to get moving?". ”
- George A. Ford- Copy
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“ To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep: No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, — 't is a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd… ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic. ”
- Lisa Alther- Copy
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“ In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action. ”
- Justice Louis D. Brandeis- Copy
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“ IMPARTIAL, adj. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy or adopting either of two conflicting opinions. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ When there are two conflicting versions of a story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst. ”
- H. Allen Smith- Copy
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“ True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic. ”
- Abigail Adams- Copy
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“ The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others, to learn to live in a social world. ”
- Learned Hand- Copy
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“ I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting. ”
- Harold Macmillan- Copy
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“ Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. ”
- Jean Baptiste LaCordaire- Copy
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“ To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires. ”
- Robert Collier- Copy
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“ I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself. ”
- Connie Mack- Copy
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“ Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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