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• The Democrats are going to change the name of the Hoover Dam. That is the silliest thing I ever heard of in politics . . . Lord if they feel that way about it, I don't see why they don't just reverse the two words.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Humorous, Party

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Fate, Opposites, Engagement

  United States. Dept. of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1828). “Reports of the secretary of the Treasury of the United States”, p.4

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• Reverse petting zoo. You pet the animals, and they pet you back.

  Andy Biersack

  Zoos, Animal, Bvb

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• The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

  William Hazlitt

  Dignity, Fortune, Belonging

  William Hazlitt, James Thornton (1967). “The life of Napoleon Buonaparte”

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• If someone confronts you about draining them it could be a "double reverse." They are draining you and accuse you instead of draining them, just to throw you off.

  Frederick Lenz

  Draining, Ifs

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• People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.

  Anthony Powell

  Thinking, People, Biographies

  Anthony Powell (2010). “Hearing Secret Harmonies: Book 12 of A Dance to the Music of Time”, p.84, University of Chicago Press

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• I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger.

  Jeff Zucker

  Mistake, Thinking, Leader

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• All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Sand, Ends, All The Best

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1970). “The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers. A sea turn, and other matters”

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• When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time.

  George Boas

  Past, Thinking, Sage

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• Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

  Jon Lech Johansen

  Engineering, Intention, Bother

  "DVD Jon lands dream job stateside" by Annalee Newitz, www.wired.com. October 18, 2005.

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• Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.

  Jon Lech Johansen

  Engineering, Community, Failing

  "Meet the kid behind the DVD hack". Interview with J.S. Kelly, www.cnn.com. January 31, 2000.

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• I still haven't heard anything from Apple about my hacks. There is a tool based on my work reverse-engineering Apple's FairPlay called jhymn that's been hosted on a U.S. server for over a year and nothing has happened.

  Jon Lech Johansen

  Engineering, Years, Apples

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• I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth; that freedom of enquiry will produce liberality of conduct; that mankind will reverse the absurd position that the many were, made for the few; and that they will not continue slaves in one part of the globe, when they can become freemen in another.

  George Washington

  Spring, War, Dark

  George Washington, Dorothy Twohig, William Wright Abbot (1987). “The Papers of George Washington: April-June 1789”

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• Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.

  Agnes Repplier

  Loyalty, Passionate Desire, Belief

  Agnes Repplier (2009). “American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.

  Alan Greenspan

  Gains, Action, Terrorism

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• Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The very reverse may be said of love. In a great degree, love and friendship cannot subsist in the same bosom; even when inspired by different objects they weaken or destroy each other, and for the same object can only be felt in succession. The vain fears and fond jealousies, the winds which fan the flame of love, when judiciously or artfully tempered, are both incompatible with the tender confidence and sincere respect of friendship.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Friendship, Flames, Wind

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2012). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.71, Courier Corporation

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• I'm interested in the female dom/male sub dynamic, and how superficially it can seem like a total reverse of gender roles and maybe even subversive or something.

  Marie Calloway

  Males, Female, Roles

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. March 19, 2013.

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• Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?

  Jessica Mitford

  Roles, Prison, Paradox

  Jessica Mitford (1973). “Kind and usual punishment: the prison business”, Not Avail

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• There were many stages to the Atlantean civilization. During the later stages, scientists became involved with advanced particle physics. In particular they were interested in reverse gravity fields.

  Frederick Lenz

  Civilization, Atlantis, Fields

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• Will it be said that the judgment of a male of two years old, is more sage than that of a female's of the same age? I believe the reverse is generally observed to be true. But from that period what partiality! how is the one exalted, and the other depressed, by the contrary modes of education which are adopted! the one is taught to aspire, and the other is early confined and limited. As their years increase, the sister must be wholly domesticated, while the brother is led by the hand through all the flowery paths of science.

  Judith Sargent Murray

  Brother, Believe, Hands

  Judith Sargent Murray, Sharon M. Harris (1995). “Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray”, p.6, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• We're going to reverse a trend that is killing most families in this country, and that is they're having to go in their pocket for more and more money for health care every year.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Years, Pockets

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When I clicked into this idea of doing a band and examining a band as a dysfunctional family, I wanted to reverse that Rescue Me formula.

  Denis Leary

  Ideas, Band, Dysfunctional Family

  "Denis Leary Wants David Bowie & Steven Tyler In ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Season 2 – Comic Con". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. July 12, 2015.

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• I believe in helping the planet survive, and that includes reaching out to help some of the disappearing creatures whose habitats we're destroying. It's up to us to somehow reverse that trend. I don't know how we'll achieve it, but we need to.

  Morgan Freeman

  Believe, Needs, Habitat

  "Morgan Freeman–born to be Morgan". Interview with Kam Williams, www.philasun.com. April 11, 2011.

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• Contrary to economists' beliefs, the informal sectors of the world's economies, in total, are predominant, and the institutionalized, monetized sectors grow out of them and rest upon them, rather than the reverse.

  Hazel Henderson

  World, Belief, Economics

  Hazel Henderson (1988). “The Politics of the Solar Age: Alternatives to Economics”, Knowledge Systems

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• From a rational standpoint, it might be expected that man should be far more willing to express financial confidence in his skills rather than risking his earnings on the mindless meanderings of chance. Experience, however, has strongly indicated the reverse proposition to hold true.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  Men, Skills, Might

  "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.

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