Opposites Quotes - Page 19

• In flight...entire days can be wound back or skipped over...as we exist merely in a world of vapor. Adventures are both beginning and coming to a close up here as people from opposite ends of experience paradoxically move in one direction.

  Josh Gates

  Moving, Adventure, One Direction

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• The harmony of the universe knows only one musical form - the legato; while the symphony of number knows only its opposite - the staccato. All attempts to reconcile this discrepancy are based on the hope that an accelerated staccato may appear to our senses as a legato.

  Tobias Dantzig

  Symphony, Numbers, Musical

  Tobias Dantzig (2005). “Number: The Language of Science”, Dutton Juvenile

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• There is both joy and suffering on planet Earth because this beautiful world is a world of duality - a world of opposites. There is an opposite side to everything.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Beautiful, Joy, Suffering

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “Hero”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• After following the crowd for a while, I'd then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Degrees, Following The Crowd, Crowds

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• Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Merit, Virtue, Compelled

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.139, Basic Books

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• Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Ignorance, Government

  Thomas Paine (1791). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.161

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  Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

  Karl Marx

  Ignorance, Agony, Toil

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.709, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age

  Aaron Sorkin

  Athlete, Get Better, Age

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• In meditating, meditate on your own divinity. The goal of life is to be a vehicle for something higher. Keep your eyes up there between the world of opposites watching your 'play' in the world.Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

  Joseph Campbell

  Eye, Rocks, Play

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• Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.

  Richard Rohr

  Addiction, Alternatives, Consciousness

  "Contemplation: Finding Ourselves, Finding God" by Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.

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• Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Letting Go, Real, Believe

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• On a traffic light green means 'go' and yellow means 'yield', but on a banana it's just the opposite. Green means 'hold on,' yellow means 'go ahead,' and red means, 'where the hell did you get that banana at?'

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Mean

  "Strategic Grill Locations". Live Album by Mitch Hedberg, September 7, 1999.

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• Anarchy: It is NOT bombs, disorder or chaos. It is NOT robbery and murder. It is NOT a war of each against all. It is NOT a return to barbarism or to the wild state of man. Anarchism is the very opposite of all that.

  Alexander Berkman

  War, Men, Anarchy

  Alexander Berkman, Jewish Anarchist Federation (1929). “Now and after: the A B C of communist anarchism”

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• Keith's [Briffa] series...differs in large part in exactly the opposite direction that Phil's [Jones] does from ours. This is the problem we all picked up on (everyone in the room at IPCC was in agreement that this was a problem and a potential distraction/detraction from the reasonably consensus viewpoint we'd like to show w/ the Jones et al and Mann et al series).

  Michael E. Mann

  Agreement, Doe, Viewpoints

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• Efficiency may curtail [energy] demand in the short term, for the specific task at hand. But its long-term impact is just the opposite...efficiency fails to curb demand because it lets more people do more, and do it faster-and more/more/faster invariably swamps all the efficiency gains.

  Peter W. Huber

  Impact, Hands, Long

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• Chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction induces a deviation in the opposite direction to restore the equilibrium. In fact, deviations are not "corrected" as a chance process unfolds, they are merely diluted.

  Amos Tversky

  One Direction, Self, Facts

  Amos Tversky, Eldar Shafir (2004). “Preference, Belief, and Similarity: Selected Writings”, p.207, MIT Press

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• You can achieve anything if you believe in yourself. But the opposite is also true; without strong self-belief you will not go far.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiring, Happiness

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• Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear expression also becomes muddled by mere wordplay, affirming this one aspect and denying all the rest. The pivot of Tao passes through the center where all affirmations and denials converge. He who grasps the pivot is at the still-point from which all movements and oppositions can be seen in their right relationship... Abandoning all thought of imposing a limit or taking sides, he rests in direct intuition.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Expression, Intuition

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• I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me.

  Eric Bana

  Ideas, People, Laughing

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 29, 2009.

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• Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren't opposite-the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspiring, Empowering, Engagement

  "Where Is Peace In a Time of War?" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2006.

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• It is in vain that we search for an essential difference between good and evil, for their constituents are the same. The crucial distinction lies in their structure, i.e., the manner in which the pieces are assembled. Evil is disintegration, an angry juxtaposition of alienated opposites, with parts always striving to repress other parts. Good is the synthesis and reconciliation of these same pieces.

  Charles Hampden-Turner

  Lying, Differences, Evil

  Charles Hampden-Turner (1982). “Maps of the Mind”, Macmillan Publishing Company

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• Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Artist, Order, Delight

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.571, Vintage

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• We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.

  Marina Keegan

  Love, Loneliness, Women

  Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Her theme was happiness: what it was; what it was not; where we might find it, where not; and how, if found, it must be guarded. Never must we confound it with pleasure. Nor think sorrow its exact opposite.

  Mary Lavin

  Happiness, Thinking, Sorrow

  Mary Lavin (1981). “Selected stories”, Viking Pr

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• It is tragic-comic to see that all this knowledge and understanding exercises no power at all over men's lives, that their lives do not express in the remotest way what they have understood, but rather the opposite.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Exercise, Men, Thinking

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