Reverse Quotes - Page 14

• In America, we tax work, investment, employment, savings, and production, while we subsidize non-work, consumption, and debt. It's time we reverse this trend.

  Jack Kemp

  America, Saving, Employment

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• Regularity in Nature is not proof of the control of Nature by a Divine intelligence; it is rather the reverse. If something- call it matter, or ether, or x - exists, it must operate in accordance with its innate qualities; and so long as this x remains uncontrolled, its manifestations will continue unchallenged- in other words, there will be order. The same causes, the same results. That is the manifest signs of a natural order that knows nothing of God.

  Chapman Cohen

  Order, Long, Quality

  Chapman Cohen (1928). “Essays in freethinking”

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• Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Libertarian, Socialism

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• Something seems wrong to most people engaged in struggle when they see more people hurt on their own side than on the other side. They are used to reading this as an indication of defeat, and a complete mental readjustment is required of them. Within the new terms of struggle, victory has nothing to do with their being able to give more punishment than they take (quite the reverse); victory has nothing to do with their being able to punish the other at all; it has to do simply with being able, finally, to make the other move... Vengeance is not the point; change is.

  Barbara Deming

  Hurt, Struggle, Moving

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• I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women, but then the reverse is not found.

  Romola Garai

  Thinking, Film, Found

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• An attitudinal sea change. I think that's the hardest one to fix. Presidential directives, bills, provisions can all be rescinded, repealed, amended, but attitudes linger. The hardest thing is going to be to try to reverse an attitude, a bunker mentality that equates secrecy with either security or heightened efficiency and that regards transparency as an invitation to mischief and trespass. This default position of operating in the shadows is going to be somewhat appealing to whomever inherits office.

  Ted Gup

  Attitude, Thinking, Sea

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I don't think that the problems or the issues relate to any single piece of legislation. I think that they really do relate to the mindset that after eight years is pretty deeply embedded. It is not going to be easy to reverse itself.

  Ted Gup

  Thinking, Years, Issues

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Eat more berries. Blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and other varieties have anthocyanins that can help reverse some loss of balance and memory associated with aging.

  David H. Murdock

  Memories, Loss, Balance

  "5 Ways to Stay Brain Fit" by David H. Murdock, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2011.

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• If you were to buy a [BMW] 6-series, I recommend you select reverse when leaving friends’ houses so they don’t see its backside.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Bmw, House, Leaving

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• Less so here, I’ve noticed. I can see why there’s a misconception that it’s easier when your parents are actors, but it doesn’t work out at all. In fact, it’s the reverse.

  Max Irons

  Work Out, Parent, Actors

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• I've thought many times, 'I can't write this,' but on my own little planet I found the courage to write it because it was true. I put aside fear of Father being angry with me. It's hard though; the world pales in comparison with the stature of a parent. In some small-consolation way, my parents feel I'm helping people by giving them something to identify with. They feel proud in a sort of reverse way. My mom's proud of the fact that lots of kids look up to me.

  Billy Corgan

  Mom, Father, Writing

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• People's attitude seems to be that if you don't have a television, you're not connected to reality - somehow you're not in reality. It's quite interesting, because I suspect that possibly it's the reverse.

  Jodhi May

  Attitude, Reality, Interesting

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• I printed a list of Irish names from the Internet and my husband, Dave, saw Finley on the list. I really liked it but didn't want to scare Dave off with my enthusiasm. So I used a little reverse psychology and let him think it was his idea.

  Holly Marie Combs

  Husband, Thinking, Names

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• The children's writer not only makes a satisfactory connection between [the writer's] present maturity and his past childhood, he also does the same for his child-characters in reverse - makes the connection between their present childhood and their future maturity. That their maturity is never visibly achieved makes no difference; the promise of it is there.

  Philippa Pearce

  Children, Character, Past

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• One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much smaller. This is the era of hunger unprecedented. Now, in the time of the greatest technical power, is starvation an institution. Reverse another venerable formula: the amount of hunger increases relatively and absolutely with the evolution of culture.

  Marshall Sahlins

  Night, Humanity, Age

  Marshall Sahlins (2013). “Stone Age Economics”, p.38, Routledge

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• A student well versed in even one technique will naturally see corresponding points in other techniques. A upper level punch, a lower punch, a front punch and a reverse punch are all essentially the same. Looking over thirty-odd kata, he should be able to see that they are essentially variations on just a handful.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Variation, Levels, Able

  Gichin Funakoshi (1994). “Karate-dō Nyūmon: The Master Introductory Text”, p.44, Kodansha International

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• In the immortal words of Roberto Duran, we are saying, 'No mas!' We will educate students and then promote them, not the reverse

  Joel Klein

  Saying No, Students, Immortal

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• Some segments within the American government orchestrated the attack to reverse the declining American economy, and its grips on the Middle East, in order to save the Zionist regime The majority of the American people as well as most nations and politicians around the world agree with this view.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Government, Views, Order

  "U.N. delegates walk out during Iranian president's speech". www.cnn.com. September 23, 2010.

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• I was teaching live drawing in a community college and students started zoning in on the face and spending a couple of hours on that and then putting the rest of the body on the face only in the last hour. It didn't work to just tell them, 'Well, you're really not thinking of the body as a totality.' So in desperation I would put a drape over the model's head so they couldn't see it. They had to draw the body and then at the end of the session for an hour I would take the drape off just to try to reverse their procedure.

  John Baldessari

  Couple, Teaching, Thinking

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• I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and
  25 percent actor, but I can well see the day when the reverse could be
  true.

  Harry S. Truman

  Actors, Remember, Politician

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• What is the point of abusing yourself with guilt in the first place? If you did make a mistake and act in a hurtful way, your guilt won't reverse your blunder in some magical manner. It won't speed your learning processes so as to reduce the chance you'll make the same mistake in the future. Other people won't love and respect you more because you are feeling guilty and putting yourself down in this manner. Nor will your guilt lead to productive living. So what's the point?

  David D. Burns

  Mistake, People, Feelings

  Source: time.com

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• The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome and adequate utilization of distinctive quality in an atmosphere of understanding.... Communities all to one pattern, like boxes of toy soldiers, are things of the past, rather than of the future.

  H. G. Wells

  Past, Community, Understanding

  H. G. Wells, Walter Warren Wagar (2004). “The Outline of History: The Roman Empire to the Great War”, p.658, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Government welfarism, with its ever-increasing army of pensioners and other beneficiaries, is fatally easy to launch and fatally easy to extend, but almost impossible to bring to a halt - and quite impossible politically to reverse, no matter how obvious and catastrophic its consequences become.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Army, Government, Matter

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• I would say [Fed policy] has been in some sense Reverse Robin Hood.

  Kevin Warsh

  Robins, Robin Hood, Feds

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• Men and women make their own beauty or their own ugliness. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton speaks in one of his novels of a man "who was uglier than he had any business to be;" and, if we could but read it, every human being carries his life in his face, and is good-looking or the reverse as that life has been good or evil. On our features the fine chisels of thought and emotion are eternally at work.

  Alexander Smith

  Beauty, Men, Evil

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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