The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. It's like the old saw: What does a dragon in its shell look like? Well no one can ever tell, for as soon as you break the shell to see, the dragon is no longer in its shell. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret.
Gregory MaguireTags: evil secrecy two-sides-to-the-story vice-versa
Why can’t I remember that not once have I ever seen a coin, whether grimy copper or bright gold, that had but one side.
Andrew LevkoffTags: fate comeuppance two-sides-to-the-story two-sides
There's more to stories than it seems at first looking," she said. "Two sides to most stories. Folks better be thinking about that for once.
Augusta ScattergoodTags: stories two-sides-to-the-story
..there are two possible endings to every story.
Christie WatsonTags: optimism perspective two-sides-to-the-story
A few years after I gave some lectures for the freshmen at Caltech (which were published as the Feynman Lectures on Physics), I received a long letter from a feminist group. I was accused of being anti-women because of two stories: the first was a discussion of the subtleties of velocity, and involved a woman driver being stopped by a cop. There's a discussion about how fast she was going, and I had her raise valid objections to the cop's definitions of velocity. The letter said I was making the women look stupid.
The other story they objected to was told by the great astronomer Arthur Eddington, who had just figured out that the stars get their power from burning hydrogen in a nuclear reaction producing helium. He recounted how, on the night after his discovery, he was sitting on a bench with his girlfriend. She said, "Look how pretty the stars shine!" To which he replied, "Yes, and right now, I'm the only man in the world who knows how they shine." He was describing a kind of wonderful loneliness you have when you make a discovery.
The letter claimed that I was saying a women is incapable of understanding nuclear reactions.
I figured there was no point in trying to answer their accusations in detail, so I wrote a short letter back to them: "Don't bug me, Man!
Tags: misinterpreted ignorance deep-thoughts humor-inspirational misinformation ignoring-issues two-sides-to-the-story judgmentality richard-feynman misinterpretation action-over-thought incapable-of-interpreted incapable-of-understanding
There are two sides to every story, as if that explains and justifies everything! You know what I say when someone tells me that? I say well of course there are two sides to every story, and one side is WRONG!
Nikki SexTags: right-and-wrong justification explain two-sides-to-the-story
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