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• Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing.

  Daisy Whitney

  Sometimes

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• The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.

  Kurt Tucholsky

  Play, Dumb, Advantage

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• Real people conceive originality then think, write but never read of others' posts to copy to follow and the copycats follow exactly the opposite direction i.e. read of others' posts, write but never think and conceive originality.

  Anuj

  Real, Writing, Thinking

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• True enough and opposites don't just attract they freaking catch fire and burn the entire city down.

  Jay Crownover

  Fire, Cities, Enough

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• We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our devotion to democracy, but we sadly practice the very opposite of the democratic creed.... This strange dichotomy, this agonizing gulf between the ought and the is, represents the tragic theme of man's earthly pilgrimage.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Commitment, Practice, Democracy

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Linda seemed to recognize loneliness. Possibly she could see it sitting opposite her, sipping lager and trying not to lose its temper. It was an illness, loneliness-it made you weak, gullible, feebleminded.

  Nick Hornby

  Loneliness, Trying, Sitting

  Nick Hornby (2009). “Juliet, Naked”, p.157, Penguin UK

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• That was perfect. It was just the opposite from what I said yesterday.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Yesterday, Perfect

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• I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.

  Laura Mennell

  Hands, Trying, Bending

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• Liberals tend to be much more concerned about business and corporations as the oppressors. They look to government as the solution. On the Right it's the opposite. They see business as good, as what generates wealth in society, and they see government as the oppressor, which makes it hard for especially small businesspeople.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Government, Corporations, Looks

  "Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. May 7, 2012.

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• I think if you live in London, it's such a cosmopolitan city, nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it's totally the opposite.

  Alex Kingston

  Thinking, Race, Cities

  "Intensive care". Interview with Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2002.

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• Receiving and giving are opposite energies that are inextricably linked together in the natural flow of life, like inhaling and exhaling. If one aspect of that cycle doesn't function, the entire cycle ceases to function and the life force cannot move freely. If you can't inhale, you will soon have nothing to exhale, and before long, your body will be unable to continue living.

  Shakti Gawain

  Moving, Long, Giving

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Creating True Prosperity”, p.62, New World Library

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• Life is full of painful events, and people who have lost their way and hurt others. Our pain is not lessened when we respond with hatred. In fact, the opposite occurs: When we hate people who hurt us, we come to resemble what we hate, or worse, and then we suffer all the more. What is evil is our response. We have choices, and love is the most powerful eliminator of all.

  Bernie Siegel

  Hurt, Powerful, Pain

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• Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

  George Santayana

  Wise, Balance, Occasions

  George Santayana (1936). “The works of George Santayana”

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• Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power resides in submission. A power that comes from within. Those who submit to the divine essence of life will live in unperturbed tranquility and peace even when the whole wide world goes through turbulence after turbulence.

  Elif Safak

  Mean, Essence, True Power

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• The Procrastinator has the opposite problem. He can’t selectively focus his attention and might endure frequent accusations about his laziness. In truth, he’s so distracted by stimuli that he can’t figure out where or how to get started. Sounds, smells, sights and the random wanderings of his thoughts continually vie for his attention.

  Kate Kelly

  Sight, Smell, Focus

  Kate Kelly, Peggy Ramundo (2006). “You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!: The Classic Self-Help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Lying, Creativity

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.627, Wordsworth Editions

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• We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

  Virginia Woolf

  Thinking, Indulge In, Mind

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2279, Delphi Classics

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• To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Errors, Obedience, Salvation

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• Photography is a holding together of opposites: Light and dark, beautiful and ugly, sublime and banal, concious and unconcious. I am still struck by the power of photography to strip away the bark of the mind and reveal the visceral workings underneath.

  Jack Welpott

  Beautiful, Photography, Dark

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• Do not worry! Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are what cause anxiety. The heart which clings to goods receives with them the choking burden of worry. Worry collects treasures, and treasures produce more worries. We desire to secure our lives with earthly goods; we want our worrying to make us worry-free, but the truth is the opposite. The chains which bind us to earthly goods, the clutches which hold the goods tight, are themselves worries.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Believe, Heart, Security And Freedom

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• There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Fall, Errors

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Screwtape Letters: Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

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• The first point one has to get straight in discussions like this, is that ID is not the opposite of evolution. Rather, it is the opposite of Darwinism, which says life evolved by an utterly unguided, undirected mechanism. If god directed the process of evolution, or rigged the universe to produce complex life, then that is not Darwinism - it is intelligent design.

  Michael Behe

  Intelligent, Design, Firsts

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• In the end, I think the relationships that survive in this world are the ones where two people can finish each other's sentences. Forget drama and torrid sex and the clash of opposites. Give me banter any day of the week.

  Douglas Coupland

  Sex, Drama, Thinking

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• Materialism, which gives priority to material needs and objects, is obviously the opposite of spirituality

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Giving, Priorities, Needs

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• As Aristotle wrote a long, long time ago, and I'm paraphrasing here, the goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly. Mediocrity is not about failing, and it's the opposite of doing. Mediocrity, in other words, is about not trying. The reason is achingly simple, and I know you've heard it a thousand times before: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Simple, Long, Goal

  Georges St-Pierre (2013). “The Way of the Fight”, p.7, Harper Collins

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