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• People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say thats completely opposite of the truth.

  Ann Druyan

  Giving Up, Passion, Thinking

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• It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

  Douglas Wilson

  Character, Agriculture, Midwest

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• What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.

  Dinah Sheridan

  Play, Two, Personality

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• I know quite a few farmers all over the United States who have tried this and have said the opposite, that they have to use more herbicides, not less. The same holds true with BT.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  United States, Use, Economy

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• Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.

  Bob Geldof

  Depression, Thinking, Joy

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• To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Education, Dignity, Imitation

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 96, 1799.

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• Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance - embracing all opposites.

  Taisen Deshimaru

  Imagination, Hypocrisy, Effort

  "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Buddhist Wisdom" by Gill Farrer Halls, (p. 162), 2000.

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• All the things and events we usually consider as irreconcilable, such as cause and effect, past and future, subject and object, are actually just like the crest and trough of a single wave, a single vibration. For a wave, although itself a single event, only expresses itself through the opposites of crest and trough, high point and low point. For that very reason, the reality is not found in the crest nor the trough alone, but in their unity.

  Ken Wilber

  Past, Reality, Unity

  Ken Wilber (2001). “No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

  Alan Watts

  Attitude, Belief, Holding On

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• I play opposite Beverly D'Angelo, and that was definitely a great time.

  Wilmer Valderrama

  Play, Great Times

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.

  Laurence Shames

  Success, Motivation, Failure

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• You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.

  Chita Rivera

  Fabulous, Feels, Audience

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• Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.

  Ernestine Rose

  Atheism, Agitation, Motto

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• The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it.

  Dido Armstrong

  Blame, Sometimes, Realizing

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• My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.

  Kelly Lynch

  Careers, Done, Film

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• The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.

  Jerry Brown

  Jobs, Stupid, Cutting

  "The Revolt Against Liberal Orthodoxy" by David Harsanyi, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 11, 2010.

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• Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

  Julia Cameron

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Jun 13, 2012

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• Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Birthday, Sex, Past

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• The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.

  Maimonides

  Men, Views, Likes

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.282, Moses Maimonides

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• We're actors. We're the opposite of people.

  Tom Stoppard

  People, Theatre, Actors

  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) act 2

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• The opposite of war isn't peace... It's creation!

  Jonathan Larson

  Peace, War, Creation

  "Rent". Musical by Jonathan Larson, 1996.

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• In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it is the exact opposite.

  Paul Dirac

  Science, People, Poetry

  "Brighter Than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists". Book by by Robert Jungk, as translated by James Cleugh, p. 22, 1958.

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• People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones.

  Donald Knuth

  Art, Wall, Reality

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• Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

  Olivier Martinez

  Would Be, Strange, Found

  "New Again: Olivier Martinez". Interview with Vince Passaro, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2012.

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• America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

  James T. Farrell

  Usa, America, Said

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