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• River Song? Amy Pond? Hardly weak women. It's the exact opposite. You could accuse me of having a fetish for powerful, sexy women who like cheating people. That would be fair.

  Steven Moffat

  Sexy, Cheating, Song

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• H&M approached us to collaborate, and see if we could translate the dream we created at Lanvin to a wider audience, not just a dress for less. I have said in the past that I would never do a mass-market collection, but what intrigued me was the idea of H&M going luxury rather than Lanvin going public. This has been an exceptional exercise, where two companies at opposite poles can work together because we share the same philosophy of bringing joy and beauty to men and women around the world.

  Alber Elbaz

  Dream, Philosophy, Exercise

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• In every case do the opposite to whatever technology does today. Then you will always be on the right track.

  Viktor Schauberger

  Technology, Track, Doe

  Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (2000). “The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.149, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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• The keystone of the entire structure of the spiritual and physical universe is Rhythmic Balanced Interchange between all opposites.

  Walter Russell

  Spiritual, Structure, Keystones

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• Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. Let me warn you to beware of two opposite errors: of letting your imagination soar unballasted by facts, but on the other hand, of shackling it so solidly that it loses all incentive to rise.

  Percival Lowell

  Errors, Hands, Two

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• The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.

  Watchman Nee

  Feelings, Different

  Watchman Nee (1993). “The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee”, p.82, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Again, after his fall, God gave him an occasion to repent and to receive mercy but he kept his stiff-neck held high. He came to him and said "Adam, Where are you?" instead of saying "What glory you have left and what dishonor you have arrived at?" After that, He asked him "Why did you sin? Why did you transgress the commandment?" By asking these questions, He wanted to give him the opportunity to say, "Forgive me." However, he did not ask for forgiveness. There was no humility, there was no repentance, but indeed the opposite.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Fall, Humility, Opportunity

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• When pride retreats from a man, humility begins to dwell in him, and the more pride is diminished, so much more does humility grow. The one gives way to the other as to its opposite. Darkness departs and light appears. Pride is darkness, but humility is light.

  Tikhon of Zadonsk

  Humility, Pride, Men

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• Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Risk, Useless

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• Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Light, Choices

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• The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.

  Michel de Certeau

  Real, Media, Silence

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.185, Univ of California Press

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• Sense of humor: A thread of illuminated intelligence that links two opposite ideas.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Humor, Ideas, Two

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• Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their opposites. It is a humane influence, softening with mirth the ragged inequities of existence, prompting tolerant views of life, bridging over the space which separates the lofty from the lowly, the great from the humble.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Beautiful, Humble, Humor

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• No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.

  Epictetus

  Men, Progress, Wavering

  Epictetus (1895*). “Discourses: With the Encheiridion and Fragments”

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• Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles, ideas and inhibitions that stands between him and the part, until one day, with a great rush of air, the character invades his every pore.

  Peter Brook

  Character, Air, Ideas

  Peter Brook (2017). “The Shifting Point: Forty Years of Theatrical Exploration, 1946-87”, p.16, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Some of us are darkness lovers. We do not dislike the early and late daylight of June, but we cherish the increasing dark of November, which we wrap around ourselves in the prosperous warmth of wood stove, oil and electric blanket. Inside our warmth we fold ourselves, partly tuber, partly bear, in the dark and its cold - around us, outside us, safely away from us. We tuck ourselves up in the comfort of cold's opposite, warming ourslves by thought of the cold, lighting ourselves by darkness's idea.

  Donald Hall

  Dark, Oil, June

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• Kids don't say, "Wait." They say, "Wait up, hey wait up!" Because when you're little, your life is up. The future is up. Everything you want is up. "Hold up. Shut up! Mum, I'll clean up. Let me stay up!" Parents, of course, are just the opposite. Everything is down. "Just calm down. Slow down. Come down here! Sit down. Put... that... down."

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Kids, Waiting, Parent

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• Often you will find the opposite situation. The author seems to have interesting ideas, but he is not able to illustrate them with decent examples. If a grandmaster is commenting on one of his own games, then there is usually not any problem: his general thoughts are closely tied up with what is happening on the board. But as soon as he starts writing an article or book on a different theme the difficulties begin, as he may not have suitable material to hand.

  Mark Dvoretsky

  Book, Writing, Ideas

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• Consuming is the opposite of producing.

  Noah Kagan

  Entrepreneur, Consuming

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• From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite.

  Paul Newman

  Courage, Experts, Done

  Paul Newman, A.E. Hotchner (2008). “In Pursuit of the Common Good: Twenty-Five Years of Improving the World, One Bottle of Salad Dressing at a Time”, p.19, Crown Business

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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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• Accordingly if the devil should say, 'Do not drink,' you should reply to him, 'On this very account, because you forbid it, I shall drink, and what is more, I shall drink a generous amount. Thus one must always do the opposite of that which Satan prohibits. What do you think is my reason for drinking wine undiluted, talking freely, and eating more often, if it is not to torment and vex the devil who made up his mind to torment and vex me.

  Martin Luther

  Drinking, Wine, Thinking

  Martin Luther, Theodore G. Tappert (2003). “Luther: Letters of Spiritual Counsel”, p.86, Regent College Publishing

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• Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath.... Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.

  Hippocrates

  Exercise, People, Want

  A Regimen for Health IV (transl. John Chadwick and W.N. Mann)

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• Whenever I think about an issue, I always argue the opposite side of it. So, when I ultimately decide on a course of action, I've already been through all the conceivable scenarios, and I'm going to go for it.

  Kenneth I. Chenault

  Leadership, Thinking, Issues

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