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• Consuming is the opposite of producing.

  Noah Kagan

  Entrepreneur, Consuming

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• If we doubt that the foundation for inner work is compassion for self and self-honoring behavior, we need only remind ourselves that the opposite approach, feeling guilty or judging ourselves has never really worked.

  John Earle

  Inspirational, Compassion, Self

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• I have never liked sex. I do not think I ever will. It just seems the opposite of love.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Sex, Thinking, Seems

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• Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions where the players have castled on opposite sides.

  Alexander Kotov

  Learning, Player, Wish

  Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov (2012). “The Art of the Middle Game”, p.51, Courier Corporation

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• God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can't claim to be good if you have never been tempted to be bad.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Choices, Religion

  "The Purpose-driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?". Book by Rick Warren, 2003.

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• [Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Gratitude, Grateful, Disease

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• How little has situation to do with happiness. The happy individual uses their intelligence to realise things could be worse and therefore is grateful and happy. The unhappy individual does the opposite!

  Fanny Burney

  Gratitude, Grateful, Unhappy

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• It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.

  A. N. Wilson

  Thinking, History, Political

  A. N. Wilson (2015). “After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World”, p.194, Macmillan

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• Prosperity is the opposite of greedy.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Prosperity, Greedy

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• In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In film, words are about twenty percent. It's a different figure, but it's almost an opposite ratio. For the words are only a little bit of embroidery, a little bit of lacework.

  Nicholas Ray

  Theatre, Twenties, Different

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• If we generally like the way things are now, we must also ask whether our current situation is really so different from the open ages of radio, film, or the telephone. Might it not also have seemed in those times that the orgy of limitless entrepreneurism would never end? The point is that we are near the high end of a pendulum arc that, so far, has aways begun to swing in the opposite direction -toward greater integration and centralization- with a force that can seem inexorable.

  Tim Wu

  Swings, Age, Might

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• True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Expression, Tablets, Faces

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• Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.

  Peter Kreeft

  Jesus, Joy, Heaven

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• The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry

  Peter Kreeft

  Atheism, Theism, Idolatry

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• It is necessary to recover the primeval force of the shock taking place at the moment when opposite a man (the viewer) there stood for the first time a man (the actor) deceptively similar to us, yet at the same time infinitely foreign, beyond an impassable barrier.

  Tadeusz Kantor

  Men, Acting, Firsts

  Tadeusz Kantor (1993). “A Journey Through Other Spaces: Essays and Manifestos, 1944-1990”, p.114, Univ of California Press

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• The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Choices, Despair, Feels

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• My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. But many religious folks insist on answers that are always true. We love closure, resolution and clarity, while thinking that we are people of 'faith'! How strange that the very word 'faith' has come to mean its exact opposite.

  Richard Rohr

  Religious, Mean, Dark

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• I was walking around trying to act cool, like I had no fear at all.
  But I was afraid, afraid that somebody would find out just how scared I was.
  Now I'm finally realizing that fear is the opposite of love.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Trying, Scared, No Fear

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• Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

  John Avlon

  Lines, Action, Physics

  John Avlon (2014). “Wingnuts: Extremism in the Age of Obama”, p.30, Beast Books

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• I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!

  David Guetta

  Son, Artist, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more important. Feeling that I was born for the sex opposite mine, I have always loved it and done all that I could to make myself loved by it. I have also been extravagantly fond of good food and irresistibly drawn by anything which could excite curiosity.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Sex, Feelings, Curiosity

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• Out of pure spite we pretty much always said the opposite of what the other said, no matter what they said, only to mark distance. That's how we ended up calling ourselves Satanists, despite the fact that we absolutely were not. There was not a single Satanist in the whole Black Metal scene in Norway in 1991-92.

  Varg Vikernes

  Distance, Black, Calling

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• Have the models been successful in predicting anything? They, of course, predict substantial global warming. This is not surprising given the expressed belief of some of the model builders in the global warming Hypothesis and the many parameters in the model that need to be introduced. However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!

  David Douglas

  Successful, Data, Atmosphere

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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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• The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art.

  Eli Siegel

  Art, Self, Conflict

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

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