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• I've been a fan of movies longer than anything else. One thing I learned a long time ago is that you can't translate a book literally to the screen. It won't work because it's a different medium. And it would be the same in reverse.

  Andrew Stanton

  Book, Long, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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• Muhammad was a narcissist and Muslims, by having entered into his bubble universe have become narcissists by extension. More precisely, they are reverse narcissists. A commonly used term for reverse narcissist is co-dependent.

  Ali Sina

  Muhammad, Narcissist, Used

  Source: myislam.dk

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• Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.

  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy, Men, Order

  "Essays". Book by Francis Bacon. Chapter 17: "Of Superstition", 1625.

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• Much of the image of the amazingness of America comes from the movies into other cultures. And it's much the same thing when you reverse it. Much of Africa is presented through poverty, through drought and war. [But] you're not presenting people, you're not presenting countries, you're not presenting complexity, and so people can't care about an amorphous mass called Africa.

  Chris Abani

  Country, War, Other Cultures

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• When private industry makes a mistake, it gets corrected and goes away. As governments make mistakes, it gets bigger, bigger and bigger and they make more, more and more because as they run out of money, they just ask for more and so they get rewarded for making mistakes. In the meantime that is exactly what we are doing by subsidizing companies which are failing, we have a reverse Darwinism, we've got survival of the unfittest, the companies and people that have made terrible mistakes are being rewarded and other people are being punished and being taxed.

  Peter Schiff

  Running, Mistake, Government

  YouTube Channel "Talks at Google"/"Peter Schiff: 'Crash Proof'", www.youtube.com. May 06, 2009.

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• Who can think that this eviction of Germans was undertaken only as a temporary experiment? Those who adopted the decision on the eviction of the Germans from these territories, and who understood that Poles from other Polish districts would at once move into these territories, cannot suggest after a while to carry out reverse measures. The very idea of involving millions of people in such experiments is unbelievable, quite apart from the cruelty of it, both towards the Poles and the Germans themselves.

  Vyacheslav Molotov

  Moving, Thinking, Ideas

  "The German-Polish Frontier" by Walter M. Drzewieniecki, (p. 71), 1959.

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• Copying is about reverse-engineering.

  Austin Kleon

  Engineering, Copying, Reverse Engineering

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.33, Workman Publishing

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• We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend
  our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature.

  Dale E. Turner

  Mistake, Eye, Trying

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• I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?

  Jane Austen

  Accomplishment, Expectations, Quality

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.591, Ageless Reads

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• We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another. When you think for-profit and non-profit, you most often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return. Clearly, there's some opportunity in the spectrum between those extremes. What's missing is the for-profit finance industry coming in to that area. Look at the enormous diversity of the for-profit financial industry as opposed to monolithic nature of the non-profit world; it's quite astonishing.

  Bill Drayton

  Zero, Opportunity, Thinking

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• It's a pitch you can extend your career with because it's less taxing on your body. It's like dog years, but in reverse. I feel like I'm 27 or 26 in knuckleball years!

  R.A. Dickey

  Dog, Years, Careers

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• The suffering that food animals undergo, the suffering of those who eat them and profit by them, the suffering of starving people who could be fed with the grain that feeds these animals, and the suffering we thoughtlessly impose on the ecosystem, other creatures, and future generations are all interconnected. It is this interconnectedness of suffering, and its reverse, of love, caring, and awareness, that calls out for our understanding.

  Will Tuttle

  Caring, Animal, Ecosystems

  Will Tuttle (2007). “The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony”, p.145, Lantern Books

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• My accomplishments do not live up to my tennis game. Most people have to work really hard and win some big matches, and then they get money and popularity. For me it has been the reverse of everybody else. The exact opposite.

  Andre Agassi

  Winning, Opposites, Games

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• Good traders liquidate when they are wrong, great traders reverse when they are wrong

  Jack D. Schwager

  Traders

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• Substance is a subspecies of value. When you reverse the containment process and define substance in terms of value the mystery disappears: substance is a "stable pattern of inorganic values." The problem then disappears. The world of objects and the world of values is unified.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Substance, World, Patterns

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• It is considered in England and the United States that the Government of South Africa is altogether too harsh with its native peoples. It is sadly humorous to notice that the native in South Africa, however, holds an exactly reverse opinion and the fault he finds with the South African Government is that it is far too lenient in its administration of laws throughout the native populace.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Humorous, Law, Government

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• When you feel that you are a lonely, put-upon, isolated little stranger confronting all this, you are under the influence of an illusory feeling, because the truth is quite the reverse. You are the whole works, all that there is, and always was, and always has been, and always will be.

  Alan Watts

  Lonely, Feelings, Littles

  Alan Watts (2010). “Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation”, p.90, New World Library

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• Reverse the typical American meal pattern and instead eat like a king for breakfast, a prince for lunch and a pauper for supper.

  Jane Brody

  Kings, Lunch, Typical

  Jane E. Brody (1982). “Jane Brody's The New York times guide to personal health”, Times Books(NY)

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• If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on.

  Sebastian Thrun

  Data, Brain, Rumor

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• God has ordained the state as a delegated authority; it is not autonomous. The state is to be an agent of justice, to restrain evil by punishing the wrongdoer, and to protect the good in society. When it does the reverse, it has no proper authority. It is then a usurped authority and as such it becomes lawless and is tyranny.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Evil, Justice, Doe

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• A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.

  James Cook

  Perspective, Roles, Thinker

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• Obama's perverse view of fairness threatens to create reverse incentives, militating against growth, jobs, expansion and upward mobility.

  Dick Morris

  Jobs, Views, Growth

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• The restful alertness response reverses the aging process.

  Deepak Chopra

  Alertness, Aging, Process

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• The body and mind are one. When the intimate relationship between mind and body is disrupted, aging and entropy accelerate. Restoring mind/body integration brings about renewal. Through conscious breathing and movement techniques, you can renew the body/mind and reverse the aging process.

  Deepak Chopra

  Breathing, Intimate Relationships, Mind

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• Nutritional complements, wisely used, can prevent many age-related illnesses and dramatically reverse your biological age.

  Deepak Chopra

  Age, Illness, Used

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