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• The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.

  Eli Siegel

  Art, Self, Oneness

  Eli Siegel (1981). “Self and world: an explanation of aesthetic realism”, Definition Pr

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• All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.

  Eli Siegel

  Eli Siegel (1968). “James and the children: a consideration of Henry James's The turn of the screw”, Definition Pr

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• In reality opposites are one; art shows this.

  Eli Siegel

  Art, Reality, Shows

  "Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness" by Eli Siegel, 1969.

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• Some think, "If I marry this guy who's two inches taller than I am and who has a nice bank account, I won't die. If I buy six cars, I won't die. If I hate Jews, I won't die. If I hate homosexuals, I won't die." They think they will increase their life by shunting misery onto somebody else, but it's just the opposite.

  Maya Angelou

  Nice, Hate, Thinking

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• People ask me what my greatest strengths are and I say perspective. The best way to get that is to meet people that are polar opposites; you learn the most from them. There are pieces of you that are inherently yours, but everything else is a collection of the things you’ve seen and the people you’ve met.

  Eddie Huang

  People, Perspective, Pieces

  Eddie Huang (2013). “Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir”, p.105, Spiegel & Grau

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• Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Successful, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.419, Penguin

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• Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license. Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California Constitution the notion that opposite-sex couples are superior to same-sex couples.

  Vaughn Walker

  Sex, Couple, Gay

  "Opponents of same-sex marriage to file appeal in California case". www.cnn.com. August 5, 2010.

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• If America is the land of opportunity, a country where perseverance and hard work is rewarded by recognition, then an illegal harbors the opposite ambitions. His greatest reward us anonymity, invisibility. Aided and abetted by market forces and the laws of supply and demand, he hones his skill to stand up but make sure he's never counted.

  Bella Pollen

  Country, Perseverance, Hard Work

  Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.256, Pan Macmillan

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• You know that scenario where roses are red, leaves are green, I love arguing that. ‘Why should they be?’. I hate rules and formulas. That’s so boring. It’s the opposite of creativity. Rules are ridiculous things that are meant to be broken.

  Philip Treacy

  Hate, Creativity, Broken

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• Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies.

  Felix Morley

  Political, Federalism, Definitions

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• We are always seeking our opposite, whether we know it or not. When we discover what that is we can dissolve our arrogance.

  Michio Kushi

  Arrogance, Dissolving, Knows

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• Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions; and it is a fact that the same motions and muscles of the face are employed both in laughing and crying.

  Pierre Charron

  Pain, Laughing, Faces

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• I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn't even know we had and realize that the opposite may also be true.

  Derek Sivers

  Needs, World, May

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• God’s holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil.

  David F. Wells

  Evil, Holiness, Knows

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• People think it's legalization, it's being sold as legalization-even though it's the opposite of legalization.

  Dennis Peron

  Thinking, People

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• To adjoin the instinctual nature does not mean to come undone, change everything from left to right, from black to white, to move the east to west, to act crazy or out of control. It does not mean to lose one's primary socializations, or to become less human. It means quite the opposite. The wild nature has a vast integrity to it

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Integrity, Crazy, Moving

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• Repetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown.

  Steven Levenkron

  Repetition, Familiarity

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• If the people wanted my head I would bow without demur. If I had lost the confidence or respect of the people I would not want to live. The tragedy of the drama is that the very opposite is true.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Drama, People, Tragedy

  Letter to his attorney, Yahya Bakhtiar. "My Dearest Daughter: A letter from the Death Cell". Book by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, 2007.

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• The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks.

  Theodore J. Forstmann

  Insecurity, Risk, Overcoming

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• Of course the welfare of our children is a legitimate state interest. However, limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples fails to further this interest. Instead, needlessly stigmatizing and humiliating children who are being raised by the loving couples targeted by Virginia's Marriage Laws betrays that interest. E. S.-T. [the 15-year-old daughter of two of the plaintiffs], like the thousands of children being raised by same-sex couples, is needlessly deprived of the protection, the stability, the recognition and the legitimacy that marriage conveys.

  Arenda L. Wright Allen

  Daughter, Sex, Couple

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• Although cohabitating same-sex couples are prohibited from jointly adopting children under Utah law as a result of the same-sex marriage ban, the record shows that nearly 3,000 Utah children are being raised by same-sex couples. Thus childrearing, a liberty closely related to the right to marry, is one exercised by same-sex and opposite-sex couples alike, as well as by single individuals.

  Carlos F. Lucero

  Sex, Couple, Children

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• Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it means decent, seemly. The opposite of modesty is conceit, boldness, immodesty, brazenness, lewdness.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Mean, Modesty, Apparel

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• To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Life, Self Esteem, Achievement

  Nathaniel Branden (2001). “The Psychology of Self-Esteem: A Revolutionary Approach to Self-Understanding that Launched a New Era in Modern Psychology”, Jossey-Bass

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• Europe is often held up as a cautionary tale, a demonstration that if you try to make the economy less brutal, to take better care of your fellow citizens when they're down on their luck, you end up killing economic progress. But what European experience actually demonstrates is the opposite: social justice and progress can go hand in hand.

  Paul Krugman

  Hands, Europe, Justice

  "Learning From Europe" by Paul Krugman, www.nytimes.com. January 10, 2010.

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• It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency to get rid of everything he does not know and does not want to know about himself by foisting it off on somebody else. Nothing has a more diverse and alienating effect upon society than this moral complacency and lack of responsibility, and nothing promotes understanding and rapprochement more than the mutual withdrawal of projections.

  Carl Jung

  Responsibility, Evil, Political

  "The Undiscovered Self".

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