Reverse Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.

  Blaise Pascal

  Justice, Climate, Degrees

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.105, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is no agreement on the extent to which metabolism could develop independently of a genetic material. In my opinion, there is no basis in known chemistry for the belief that long sequences of reactions can organize spontaneously -- and every reason to believe that they cannot. The problem of achieving sufficient specificity, whether in aqueous solution or on the surface of a mineral, is so severe that the chance of closing a cycle of reactions as complex as the reverse citric acid cycle, for example, is negligible.

  Leslie Orgel

  Believe, Origin Of Life, Agreement

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• People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Hurt, People, Comfort

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2014). “The Woman Warrior: Picador Classic”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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• You must pray for yourself constantly. How could it be otherwise? We worship God by believing in Him, trusting Him, and loving Him wholeheartedly - and we can attain to that only through prayer. The sole object of our being here is that we may grow like Him - and we can do that only through prayer. The more we pray for ourselves the more power will our prayers have for any other purpose whatever; so praying for ourselves is the reverse of selfishness - it is truly glorifying God.

  Emmet Fox

  Prayer, Believe, Trusting Him

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• American radio is the reverse of the Shakespearean stage. In Shakespeare's time the world's greatest dramas were acted with the most primitive technical arrangements; on the American air the world's most primitive writing is performed under perfect technical conditions.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Drama, Humorous

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• The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Learning, Science, Order

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• In time, [a Martian] colony would grow to the point of being self- sustaining. When this stage was reached, humanity would have a precious insurance policy against catastrophe at home. During the next millennium there is a significant chance that civilization on Earth will be destroyed by an asteroid, a killer plague or a global war. A Martian colony could keep the flame of civilization and culture alive until Earth could be reverse-colonized from Mars.

  Paul Davies

  War, Home, Moon

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• Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

  Srully Blotnick

  Money, Curves, Years

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• How glorious, then, is the prospect, the reverse of all the past, which is now opening upon us, and upon the world. Government, we may now expect to see, not only in theory and in books but in actual practice, calculated for the general good, and taking no more upon it than the general good requires, leaving all men the enjoyment of as many of their natural rights as possible, and no more interfering with matters of religion, with men's notions concerning God, and a future state, than with philosophy, or medicine.

  Joseph Priestley

  Philosophy, Book, Past

  Joseph Priestley (1791). “Letters to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France, &c”, p.145, Birmingham

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• It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end, the reverse happened: the fact of being a woman became a symbol of the process of cultural change the country was undergoing.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Country, Facts, Vote

  "Michelle, top woman in a macho world" by Diane Dixon, www.theguardian.com. April 02, 2006.

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• It has always been the role of government to help solve problems, including and especially health crises. Obesity is a health epidemic across our country, and we have a responsibility as a government and a society to do all we can to promote good nutrition and healthy eating so we can reverse this alarming trend.

  Richard Codey

  Country, Responsibility, Epidemics

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• I always recommend, if you can, to patent or protect whatever your idea is. If you can't, you have to make your best judgment. Sometimes people don't get anywhere because they sit on something, so afraid to reveal it. And yet, in the reverse, sometimes if you expose something too widely, you can risk losing it.

  Lori Greiner

  Ideas, People, Risk

  "Think You Can Pitch? Creatives Break Down Their Art". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 31, 2012.

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• If people perceive themselves as having very little opportunities to be fulfilled, then it cheapens their life and outlook. The solution is to reverse it; make sure they know opportunities abound.

  Michael Lee-Chin

  Opportunity, People, Littles

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• In democracy, as quaintly understood, voters pick their representatives. American democracy increasingly reverses that. Legislative districts are drawn to protect incumbents who, effectively, pick their voters.

  George Will

  Democracy, Voters, Protect

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• I'm sort of a reverse Method actor. In my personal life, I become my characters. After 'One Tree Hill', I started dressing in Converse and ripped jeans and hoodies. On 'Awkward', it manifests in how I speak.

  Ashley Rickards

  Character, Jeans, Tree

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

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• You can drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, on every continental shelf and atop every hill in America for that matter, and you still won't reverse the fact that our oil production is in permanent decline. We're just sopping up what's left, digging ourselves into a deeper hole.

  Roscoe Bartlett

  Oil, America, Matter

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• The weekly cartoons, as were my plays, came from a sense of criticism, criticism of the times, critical of the culture, of our manners and attitudes towards each other. The children's books come from the reverse. They're more supportive, since we're living in a time where we talk more about kids and do less, we talk about balancing the budget and we do it by cutting education.

  Jules Feiffer

  Children, Attitude, Book

  "Feiffer backs into another success" by Dennis Michael, www.cnn.com. January 31, 1996.

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• Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad, or the bad is good. What it does is to offer for art, and life, a different - a supplementary - set of standards.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Axes, Ordinary

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she lives happily ever after only by refusing to wait for him -- or by actually rejecting him. It is those who persist in hoping for a Prince Charming who are setting themselves up for disillusionment and unhappiness.

  Susan Faludi

  Waiting, Doe, Fairy Tale

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• Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse. The sight of monkeys or apes induces an irresistible urge in people to jump up and down, exaggeratedly scratch themselves and holler in a way that must make the primates wonder how this otherwise so intelligent species has come to depend on such inferior means of communication.

  Frans de Waal

  Communication, Mean, Intelligent

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• I do not think it would be appropriate to use official party resources such as the DNC website on behalf of organizations whose purpose is to reverse the current platform and/or to enact legislation that contradicts that platform.

  Terry McAuliffe

  Party, Thinking, Organization

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• The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in certain cultures this process has been the normal relation between images and words.

  Asger Jorn

  Inspire, Important, Normal

  Letter to anthropologist Francis Huxley, 1970.

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• I cite a good example, say, of agriculture, .. In agriculture we need to move with speed to bring to full utilization the land that is now in our possession. We need to curb aspects of corruption that are endemic in the economy. We need to be transparent in everything that we do. We need to be consistent in implementing the policies we would have agreed. And not implement policies one day and reverse them the other day.

  Gideon Gono

  Moving, Land, Agriculture

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