Double Edged Quotes
37 quotes by 37 authors
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Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing;…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.
— Henry David Thoreau
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It was clear to me that the vulnerable point of the American Grandmaster (Bobby Fischer) was in double-edged, hanging, irrational positions, where he often failed…
— Efim Geller
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My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don’t love me, I am ready to attack.…
— Louise Bourgeois
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The Lord wants double edged artistry, praising God's name and setting things straight.
— Calvin Seerveld
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I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.
— Jonathan Frakes
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I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist,…
— Gordon Ramsay
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
— Adrienne Rich
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...but hope seduces like a silver tongue, double-edged like a dagger that cuts both ways.
— Charlie Fletcher
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In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an…
— Haruki Murakami
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A double-edged sword One side destroys One releases I am your Gordian knot Will you release or destroy me? Follow truth and you shall: Find…
— P. C. Cast
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Freedom is a double-edged ideal, because true freedom comes without the protection of laws that also enslave us by defining us--female, male; Christian, Islamic; good,…
— Ellen Hopkins
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To summarize, using money to motivate people can be a double-edged sword. For tasks that require cognitive ability, low to moderate performance-based incentives can help.…
— Dan Ariely
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She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure, but sometimes she…
— Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged…
— Umera Ahmed
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But the truth is a double-edged sword; it is a dangerous thing.
— Michael Scott
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We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and give us more…
— Michio Kaku
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Fame is very much a double-edged sword.
— Kevin Bacon
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Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.
— Jason Silva
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Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power…
— Richard Jefferies
Who Wrote These Double Edged Quotes
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