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If I for my opinion bleed, opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt, and keep me on the side where still I am.

William Shakespeare (1841). “Dramatic works: from copy left by George Steevens with glossary and notes, and sketch of the life of Shakespeare”, p.11

If it be true that God and man are in one image or likeness (and the affirmation that they are so is not unplausible) then it is the duty of man to bring out into its full splendor that Divine Image which is latent, on one side, in the complexity of his own nature.

William Batchelder Greene (1872). “The blazing star; with an appendix treating of the Jewish Kabbala, also a tract on the philosophy of H. Spencer, and one on New-England transcendentalism”, p.4

There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.

"There's something to be said for our more low-key intellectuals" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. May 07, 2011.

A fanatic is always the fellow that is on the opposite side.

Will Rogers (1983). “Radio broadcasts of Will Rogers”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.

Wallace Stegner (1971). “Angle of Repose”, Penguin Group USA

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Voltaire's letter to M. le Riche, February 6, 1770.