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• Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the Earth's capacity to support us and the rest of its living systems.

  George Monbiot

  Support, Progress, Development

  "Is protecting the environment incompatible with social justice?" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2012.

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• I'm not afraid of a world with less consumerism, less 'stuff' and no economic growth. I'm far more frightened of the opposite

  Rob Hopkins

  Growth, World, Stuff

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• Justice and I became friends, though we were opposites in many ways - he was extroverted, I was introverted; he was lighthearted, I was serious.

  Nelson Mandela

  Justice, Leader, Way

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• Indexing is a successful approach to investing not because it's simple, but because it has performed so much better than the average active manager (the opposite of indexing), and the simplicity is just an added bonus.

  Patrick Geddes

  Successful, Simple, Average

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• What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish as forgetful, the angry as impassioned.

  Nick Laird

  Selfish, Love Is, Knowing

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• Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life's biggest questions,
  but actually, the opposite is true.
  
  The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to
  answer your questions, but to question your answers.

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, Teaching, Thinking

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• Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it is an elaborate balancing act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites.

  Robertson Davies

  Mean, Acceptance, Skills

  Robertson Davies, Surridge, Jennifer (1997). “Happy Alchemy: Writings on the Theatre and Other Lively Arts”, M&S

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• I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.

  Joe Strummer

  Book, Reading, Perfect

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• Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites. Chaos and Order combined equal balance.

  Richard Garriott

  Order, Enemy, Balance

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• The opposite of compromise is character.

  Frederick Douglass

  Character, Compromise

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• All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

  Heraclitus

  Conflict, All Things

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• For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Engineering, Action, Social

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• A human life has seasons much as the earth has seasons, each time with its own particular beauty and power. And gift. By focusing on springtime and summer, we have turned the natural process of life into a process of loss rather than a process of celebration and appreciation. Life is neither linear nor stagnant. It is movement from mystery to mystery. Just as a year includes autumn and winter, life includes death, not as an opposite but as an integral part of the way life is made.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Death, Summer, Appreciation

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.82, Penguin

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• Everything is known through its opposite.

  Dane Rudhyar

  Known

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• Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

  Pico Iyer

  Sometimes, Making A Living

  Pico Iyer (2014). “The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive.

  Cyndi Lee

  Yoga, Thinking, Interesting

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• When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Crazy, Mistake

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• There is no quality that we respond to in another that we lack. It might be hidden behind some bad behavior or an old, outdated shadow belief that says we are the exact opposite of what we are seeing in the other person. But I promise you that if you are attracted to a quality in someone else, no matter how great, it also exists inside of you.

  Debbie Ford

  Promise, Quality, Shadow

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• He didn't take her breath away. Maybe the opposite. But that was okay-that was really good, actually, to be near someone who filled your lungs with air.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Love, Air, Okay

  Rainbow Rowell (2014). “Landline: A Novel”, p.80, St. Martin's Press

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• As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Marine, Volcanoes, America

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4987, Delphi Classics

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• Listen to your instincts, then do the opposite.

  Robert W. Bly

  Instinct

  Robert W. Bly (2003). “Fool-Proof Marketing: 15 Winning Methods for Selling Any Product or Service in Any Economy”, p.98, John Wiley & Sons

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• In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite.

  Hugh Dancy

  Aquariums, Acting, Essentials

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• I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I'm here to tell you I'm quite the opposite in real life. In fact I'm a f**king fantastic lover.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Kings, Real, Facts

  "Sherlock Holmes star Benedict Cumberbatch says role saves him from geek typecast". www.mirror.co.uk. July 29, 2010.

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• The opposite of Taking A Risk is of course Playing It Safe. You must admit though, Playing It Safe is a pretty dull way to live. On a score of one to ten as a Risk Taker where do you stand? Add a little spice to your life today and take a risk.

  Bob Proctor

  Risk, Today, Way

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 09, 2011

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• There is a sad tendency in our world today for persons to cut one another down. Did you ever realize that it does not take very much in the way of brainpower to make remarks that may wound another? Try the opposite of that. Try handing out compliments.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Cutting, Our World, Trying

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