Opposite Quotes
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What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.
Richard Wilbur
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Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight.
David Hackett Fischer
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You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.
Ray Romano
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The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
Albert Camus
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To do the opposite of what you feel may feel like the hardest thing to do, but it has an immediate effect.
Carolyn Mahaney
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There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is the opposite of a bird of prey must be good," there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument-though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.
Craig Newmark
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Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.
Richard Rohr
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The dumbest thing is when fans get so nervous that they treat you like shit. I'm so fascinated by it. I'll be like, "Did ya enjoy the show?" and they'll be like, "Eh." They figure everyone is adoring you, so they'll take the opposite approach. At the very end, they're bummed that they acted the way they did, and it breaks my heart.
Tyson Jay Ritter
The All-American Rejects
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
Isaac Newton
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Because the opposite of fascism isn't anarchy, it's theater. When the world is fucked, you go to the theater, you go to the shine, and when the bad men come, all there is left to do is sing them down.
Catherynne M. Valente
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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
Jasper Fforde
