#versus

Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state. ↗

— J. Reuben Clark

#earth #great #individual #lowest #more

I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star. I have just said, 'Hire me if you want somebody good.' I tried to be as good as I could be every time out, and that's kind of bridged the decades. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#decades #every #every time #good #hire

I've really learned over the years how to control my adrenaline and let it all out when they shoot the gun versus letting the crowd and the lights and the camera get to me. ↗

— Tyson Gay

#camera #control #crowd #get #gun

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. ↗

— Ice T

#doing #just #life #make #means

It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software. ↗

— Nat Friedman

#developers #fair #higher #most #our

And if all womankind banded together and took the male path, the world would turn into one huge brothel. ↗

— M. Ageyev

#female-versus-male #feminity #masculinity #men-versus-women #prostitution

Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor. ↗

— Mario Monti

#europe #means #new #north #old

The only way we'll be saved is if we save ourselves. Good people can't triumph over bad people just by being good; they have to act. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#age

Consciousness is endless, from one incarnation to the next. It simply will and does manifest in other places and times, regardless of what becomes of the human race. ↗

— Zeena Schreck

#death-of-the-human-race #life-after-death #materialism-versus-spiritualism #reincarnation #transcendence

If we think of the novel and the epic...The difference lies in the fact that the important thing about the epic is a hero--a man who is a pattern for all men. While, as Mencken pointed out, the essence of most novels lies in the breaking down of a man, in the degeneration of character. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#ennobling-versus-degenerating #epics-versus-novels #men