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Image of R. C. Sproul
The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.
- R. C. Sproul
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Image of Jean-Paul Sartre
I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Image of Elif Safak
I see two opposite tendencies in Turkish society: people feel demoralized, they lose the interest in politics and retreat to their private lives; or they become very angry and even more politicized, and radicalized. Both trends are troublesome.
- Elif Safak
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Image of Philip Yancey
Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.
- Philip Yancey
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Image of Sam Walton
Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.
- Sam Walton
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Image of Warren G. Bennis
The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.
- Warren G. Bennis
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Image of Alan Watts
Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.
- Alan Watts
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Image of Heraclitus
The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.
- Heraclitus
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Image of Brené Brown
Fear is the opposite of love, in my opinion.
- Brené Brown
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Image of Slash
There are people who have an image of me as being rude and inconsiderate. But I'm completely the opposite, because I was raised not to be. I might have been tripping over myself drunk, but I was always courteous.
- Slash
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Image of Patton Oswalt
With a comedian, it's the opposite. You put that album out, and they've heard it. If they're coming out to see you, you'd better be doing new stuff. There's always a tiny part of the audience that want to hear certain bits of yours, or they've brought friends to see you, and they've told them about some of your bits. Then maybe you should do them.
- Patton Oswalt
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Image of Niels Bohr
You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.
- Niels Bohr
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Image of P. J. O'Rourke
We also have a lot of the same influences - we both read a lot of the beatniks. And yet what we actually do is almost exactly the opposite. His [ Hunter S. Thompson] political stuff is just wonderful, but basically nothing happens.
- P. J. O'Rourke
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Image of Gloria Steinem
As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind.
- Gloria Steinem
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Image of Simone Weil
The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.
- Simone Weil
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Image of Vladimir Putin
Sanctions have nothing to do with this [relations with the People's Republic of China]. The decline in our mutual trade has objective causes, which are the energy prices and the exchange rate difference. But the physical volumes have not decreased, quite the opposite actually. They are growing.
- Vladimir Putin
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Image of A. A. Milne
When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said "The what of a what?" which didn't help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the Opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction; and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that's what it is.
- A. A. Milne
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Image of Henry Ward Beecher
Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Image of Rick Warren
At first opposites attract. Then opposites attack.
- Rick Warren
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Image of Ken Wilber
One of the extraordinary things about awakening is that it carries with it the realization that there is only Spirit. Even the things of the world that we look at as problems are simply part of the way the world manifests, because it does so in terms of opposites.
- Ken Wilber
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Image of Eckhart Tolle
Peace can be threatening because peace is the absence of problems and conflict. There is something, perhaps in the personal you, that does not want freedom or peace, or the absence of problems. There's something that wants the opposite.
- Eckhart Tolle
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Image of Deb Caletti
You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.
- Deb Caletti
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Image of Will Rogers
A fanatic is always the fellow that is on the opposite side.
- Will Rogers
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Image of Robin Hobb
Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make.
- Robin Hobb
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Image of Dallin H. Oaks
Materialism, which gives priority to material needs and objects, is obviously the opposite of spirituality
- Dallin H. Oaks
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Image of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
One group of scholars or persons, most of them politically motivated, say the Holocaust occurred. Then there is the group of scholars who represent the opposite position and have therefore been imprisoned for the most part. Hence, an impartial group has to come together to investigate and to render an opinion on this very important subject, because the clarification of this issue will contribute to the solution of global problems.
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Image of Patricia Briggs
There is no cash in battling evil: just the opposite in my experience
- Patricia Briggs
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Image of Virginia Woolf
The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.
- Virginia Woolf
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Image of Stefan Zweig
The union of opposites, in so far as they are really complementary, always results in the most perfect harmony; and the seemingly incongruous is often the most natural.
- Stefan Zweig
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Image of Steven Pressfield
The opposite of fear," Dienekes said, "is love.
- Steven Pressfield
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Image of Peace Pilgrim
When we hear a prediction of some disaster we need to throw the entire weight of our positive thought in the opposite direction!
- Peace Pilgrim
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Image of Edward Norton
See, I don't get the sense that you need to direct at all. Sometimes I get the opposite sensation from you, that you're like, "I really should go do something else." But then you are drawn back in by a particular story, like a hangnail in the brain.
- Edward Norton
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Image of Earl Nightingale
If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.
- Earl Nightingale
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Image of Niels Bohr
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
- Niels Bohr
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Image of Niels Bohr
If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
- Niels Bohr
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Image of Watchman Nee
The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
- Watchman Nee
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Image of Simone Weil
The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.
- Simone Weil
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Image of Elie Wiesel
For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.
- Elie Wiesel
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Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Avarice is more opposite to economy than liberality.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Image of Rebecca Solnit
If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.
- Rebecca Solnit
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Image of Henry Cloud
The opposite of bad is not good.The opposite of bad is love
- Henry Cloud
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Image of May Sarton
Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
- May Sarton
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Image of Robert M. Pirsig
The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is what science is all about. But historically science has done exactly the opposite. Through multiplication upon multiplication of facts, information, theories and hypotheses, it is science itself that is leading mankind from single absolute truths to multiple indeterminate, relative ones.
- Robert M. Pirsig
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Image of Pythagoras
Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements
- Pythagoras
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Image of David Bowie
For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that.
- David Bowie
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Image of Murray Rothbard
We must therefore turn to history for enlightenment; here we find that none of the proclaimed anarchist groups correspond to the libertarian position, that even the best of them have unrealistic and socialistic elements in their doctrines. Furthermore, we find that all of the current anarchists are irrational collectivists, and therefore at opposite poles from our position. We must therefore conclude that we are not anarchists, and that those who call us anarchists are not on firm etymological ground, and are being completely unhistorical.
- Murray Rothbard
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Image of Cecelia Ahern
at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.
- Cecelia Ahern
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Image of S. J. Perelman
Only the scenario writers are exempt. These are tied between the tails of two spirited Caucasian ponies, which are then driven off in opposite directions. This custom is called a conference.
- S. J. Perelman
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Image of Salman Rushdie
Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.
- Salman Rushdie
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