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Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn't exist, all at the same time.

Robin Wasserman

Memories, Data, Imagination

Robin Wasserman (2011). “Shattered”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Moving, Passion

Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.56, A&C Black

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For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.

Anita Roddick

Business, Rights, Practice

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Love is just a peculiar, fleeting affair that isn't very important, but in marriage there is always hostility between two different tribes of human beings. There are two opposing forces, who fight each other until one of them wins, and you and I, my poor old Alain, have been knocked out too easily.

Irene Nemirovsky

Breakup, Fighting, Winning

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At a time when our country is waging two wars, approval ratings for Congress are at historic lows, unemployment is at a 70-year high and financial institutions have collapsed around us, I can't imagine anyone seriously opposing a National Day of Prayer.

Franklin Graham

Country, Prayer, War

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You can not retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external or imaginary.

Wallace D. Wattles

Inspirational, Giving Up, Life Changing

Wallace D. Wattles (2013). “Think Yourself Wealthy”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.

Sun Tzu

Art, War, Army

Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.30, Xist Publishing

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Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.

Robert Collier

Strong, Kindness, Competition

Robert Collier (2013). “The Magic Word”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS.

Emma Watson

Equality, Two, Feminist

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... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation of their fellows, I posit the "banality of heroism," which unfurls the banner of the heroic Everyman and Everywoman who heed the call to service to humanity when their time comes to act. When that bell rings, they will know that it rings for them. It sounds a call to uphold what is best in human nature that rises above the powerful pressures of Situation and System as the profound assertion of human dignity opposing evil.

Philip Zimbardo

Powerful, Hero, People

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One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Robert Collier

Horse, Moving, Two

Robert Collier (1971). “Riches Within Your Reach: The Law of the Higher Potential”

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Have a dialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they always start out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference.

Frederick Salomon Perls

Appreciation, Fighting, Two

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We will suffer a sharp painful disullisionment before we fully surrender. When people really see themselves as the Lord sees them, it is not the terribly offensive sins of the fleshthat shock them, but the awful nature of the pride of their own hearts opposing Jesus Christ. When they see themselves in the light of the Lord, the shame, the horror, and desperate conviction hit home for them.

Oswald Chambers

Jesus, Home, Heart

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I think, too, that we've got to recognize that where the preservation of a natural resource like the redwoods is concerned, that there is a common sense limit. I mean, if you've looked at a hundred thousand acres or so of trees-you know, a tree is a tree, how many more do you need to look at?
Opposing expansion of Redwood National Park.

Ronald Reagan

Mean, Thinking, Common Sense

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MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.

Christopher Hitchens

Mother, Suffering, Empowerment

"Mommie Dearest" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. October 20, 2003.

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Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary and appalling suffering on innocent human beings. This explains why Christians like yourself expend more "moral" energy opposing abortion than fighting genocide. It explains why you are more concerned about human embryos than about the lifesaving promise of stem-cell research. And it explains why you can preach against condom use in sub-Saharan Africa while millions die from AIDS there each year. (25)

Sam Harris

Christian, Fighting, Condom Use

Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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It's not a fun process. There is no need for the team and a player to be on opposing sides a week or two before spring training. It's good to be on the same page.

Mark Teixeira

Fun, Spring, Team

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It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.

Morris Raphael Cohen

Philosophy, Two, Philosopher

The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 7, p. 407, 1910.

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To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance. That implies that everyone else (such as the opposing football team, driver, student, parent) is de-selected, unfavored by God, and that I am special,above it all.

Dan Barker

Football, Running, Team

Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

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To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the city of Socrates and the city of Isaiah.

George Steiner

Cities, Trying, Praxis

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What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

Matthew Lesko

Library, Strange, Censorship

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To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder and accident. Therefore it signifies a human need and qualifies man’s thinking and doing.

Josef Albers

Mean, Men, Thinking

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Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.

Jay Leno

Believe, Science, Cells

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It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence.

Cynthia McKinney

Silence, Hearing, Administration

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FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.

Ambrose Bierce

Sex, Science, Female

Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.82, ReadHowYouWant.com

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