Opposites Quotes - Page 40

• Just because I choose to question religion doesn't mean that I'm spitting in God's face; it's the opposite. I'm tired of people spitting in God's face. I'm tired of seeing these divisions over a different type of Christianity, over a different type of Islam.

  Immortal Technique

  Tired, Mean, People

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost. The normal state of humanity is barbarism, just as the normal surface of the planet is salt water. Land looms large in our imagination and civilization in history books, only because sea and savagery are to us less interesting.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Errors, Sea

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Image and Imagination”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers, their mothers, and their brothers, to satisfy the brutal lusts of savage men. If there be a god, I pray him to write in his book, opposite my name, that I denied this lie for him.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.435, Library of Alexandria

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• (The Weakest Link) is fascinating program. They ask a bunch of people questions and they keep getting rid of the dumbest person, so just the smartest person is left. It is kind of the opposite way we elect a president.

  Jay Leno

  People, President, Way

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• If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new.

  Carl Jung

  Dark, Unions, Matter

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler (1970). “Mysterium coniunctionis”

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• The opposite of consumption is not thrift - it is generosity.

  Raj Patel

  Generosity, Consumption, Thrift

  Raj Patel (2009). “The Value Of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy”, p.29, Granta

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• Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites?

  Socrates

  Karma, All Things

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• I love playing characters who are opposite of who I am.

  Maiara Walsh

  Character, Who I Am

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• The second I tell myself I have to do something, I'm sure to do the opposite.

  Ashley Madekwe

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve
  purpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites --- polar opposites --- so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love... What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love Is, Justice, Purpose

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• I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as The Royal Variety Show, performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.

  Shirley Eaton

  Theatre, Bob, Royal

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• On the other hand, with a sense of the sacred, one grows in understanding and
  truth. The Holy Spirit becomes his frequent and then constant companion.
  More and more he will stand in holy places and be entrusted with holy
  things. Just the opposite of cynicism and despair, his end is eternal
  life.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Hands, Understanding, Despair

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• Astronauts cannot pick their nicknames and can only get their nicknames from other astronauts. Any astronaut who tries to give himself a cool nickname will regret it by getting just the opposite from his astronaut friends.

  Michael J. Massimino

  Regret, Giving, Trying

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• It is permissible to take life's blessings with both hands provided thou dost know thyself prepared in the opposite event to take them just as gladly. This applies to food and friends and kindred, to anything God gives and takes away... As long as God is satisfied do thou rest content. If he is pleased to want something else of thee, still rest content.

  Meister Eckhart

  Blessing, Hands, Want Something

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• I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Girl, Hero, Numbers

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.158

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• In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

  Horace

  Vices, Fool, Avoiding

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• Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Running, Quality, May

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• Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Long, Age, Looks

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1855). “STAR PAPERS OR EXPERIENCES OF ART AND NATURE”, p.109

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• This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Grieving, Mind, Goodness

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Amicitia, XIII, p. 326-29, 1922.

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• A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.

  William Hazlitt

  Hypocrite, Men, Doe

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.500

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• The opposite of what is noised about concerning men and things is often the truth.
  [Fr., Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires ou des personnes est souvent la verite.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Truth, Men

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• False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity: showing the vain man in such an illusory light that he appears in the reputation of the virtue quite opposite to the vice which constitutes his real character; it is a deceit.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Real, Character, Men

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• Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and poverty, which seemed very ponderous, they were not able to stir the opposite balance.

  Joseph Addison

  Balance, Weight, Affliction

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• Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.

  Richard Dawkins

  Walks, Settings, Darwinism

  "Eden and Evolution". Interview with Shankar Vedantam, www.washingtonpost.com. February 5, 2006.

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• As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind.

  Gloria Steinem

  Anxiety, Individuality, Mind

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