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

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Engineering, Action, Social

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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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• 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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• 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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• Grief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn't mean it doesn't hurt anymore, it doesn't mean it doesn't rip your heart out....In great grief, there's an incredible love in it. In love there's a tinge of bitter. In true love. My teacher used to say 'all love is bittersweet'. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.

  Adyashanti

  Teacher, Hurt, Rip

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• Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion. To declare that “everybody is white” or “everybody is black” or “everybody is neither white nor black, but gray,” is not a moral judgment, but an escape from the responsibility of moral judgment.

  Ayn Rand

  Responsibility, Two, White

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.319, Penguin

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• If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.

  Earl Nightingale

  Looks, Models, Ifs

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• God bestows His blessings without discrimination. The followers of Jesus are children of God, and they should manifest the family likeness by doing good to all, even to those who deserve the opposite.

  F. F. Bruce

  Jesus, Children, Blessing

  Walter C. Kaiser, Jr., Peter H. Davids, F. F. Bruce, Manfred Brauch (2010). “Hard Sayings of the Bible”, p.366, InterVarsity Press

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• The opposite of coherent is interesting.

  Seth Godin

  Interesting

  Seth Godin (2012). “The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?”, p.19, Penguin

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• Disregarding all evidence to the contrary, the student of Truth will maintain that he lives in a PERFECT Universe and among people potentially perfect. He will regulate his thinking to meet this necessity and refuse to believe in its opposite. At first he may be influenced by conditions, and he may appear weak, but as time goes on he will PROVE TO HIMSELF that his position is a correct one, for that which appears imperfect will begin to slip from his experience

  Ernest Holmes

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.130, Penguin

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• No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in the country. For instance, if he is to shut himself up for a year to study science, it is better to look out to the fields, than to an opposite wall. Then, if a man walks out in the country, there is nobody to keep him from walking in again: but if a man walks out in London, he is not sure when he will walk in again. A great city is, to be sure, the school for studying life.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Country, Wall

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.132

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• We know a thing by its opposite corollary; hot by having experienced cold; good by having decided what is bad; love by hate.

  Sylvia Plath

  Hate, Hot, Cold

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.122, Anchor

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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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• So the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection.

  Johann Hari

  Addiction, Sobriety, Connections

  "The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2015.

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• Gerard is an open-minded and passionate man. I am the opposite: stubborn and stupid. But sometimes stupid behaviour makes you win.

  Arsene Wenger

  Stupid, Winning, Men

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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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