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• Within every setback or obstacle or disadvantage there is the seed of an equal or opposite or greater advantage or benefit.

  Napoleon Hill

  Benefits, Obstacles, Disadvantages

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• Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change.

  Wallace Stevens

  Real, Night, Two

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• My words like eyes that flinch from light, refuse And shut upon obscurity; my acts Cast to their opposites by impatient violence Break up the sequent path; they fly On a circumference to avoid the centre.

  Stephen Spender

  Eye, Light, Obscurity

  Stephen Spender (1966). “World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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• Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action constitutes 'life'. I recognized that the equilibrium of any particular aspect of nature rests on the equivalence of its opposites.

  Piet Mondrian

  Expression, Two, Lines

  Piet Mondrian, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Washington Gallery of Modern Art (Washington, D.C.) (1965). “Piet Mondrian, 1872-1944: exhibition Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Washington Gallery of Modern Art”

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• In horror movies today its lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.

  Alejandro Amenabar

  Cutting, Silence, Noise

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• Identify in your work opposites of color, form, compositional arrangements, space, etc.

  Joshua L. Goldberg

  Color, Space, Etc

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• Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

  Anthony Burgess

  Moral, Life Is, Entity

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Christian, Humility, Names

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• There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it

  Eric Hoffer

  Society, Way, Exaggerating

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

  Gertrude Stein

  Literature, Action, Equal

  Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.441, Northwestern University Press

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• Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Grief, Fall, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.251, Xist Publishing

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• In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.

  Tim Ferriss

  Excess, Characteristics, Endeavor

  "The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich". Book by Timothy Ferriss, 2007.

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• But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that’s maybe what helped me to get the part.

  Olivier Martinez

  Real, Directors, Persons

  "New Again: Olivier Martinez". Interview with Vince Passaro, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2012.

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• In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true - demand for our services increases in hard times.

  Sonny Perdue

  Hard Times, Government, World

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• When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Strong, People, Gains

  "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. December 3, 2012.

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• Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Artist, Experience

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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• The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.

  Tim Ferriss

  Love, Inspirational, Boredom

  "The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich". Book by Tim Ferriss, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2007.

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• Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.

  Edward Albee

  Book, Writing, Reality

  Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.48, Da Capo Press

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• Tension of opposites.

  Mitch Albom

  Tension

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.40, Broadway Books

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• The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.

  Francois Rabelais

  Running, Dog, Drink

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• I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Sex, Emotional, People

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• For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

  Jasper Fforde

  Science, Experts, Skepticism

  Jasper Fforde (2011). “One of our Thursdays is Missing: Thursday Next”, p.122, Hachette UK

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• Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

  Hannah Arendt

  Peace, Power, Violence

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspirational, Family, Truth

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• Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites.

  Suze Orman

  Relationship, May, Financial

  Suze Orman (2005). “The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke”, p.350, Penguin

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