Opposites Quotes
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I think of moral beauty as what is the good and the just - terms perhaps best defined by their opposite: evil. Evil is the willingness to do damage to the other; its maximal expression is murder, but it includes a great deal of subtle and not-so-subtle injuries as it advances to that extreme. Evil acts reduce the other to an object, a being to its component parts, and obliterate subjectivity. Evil's breeding ground is a lack of empathy.
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Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.
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You've always got to have an imagination in the game we're in but it explodes on this. You get to try the costumes on before you start and feel the weight of them, which is great. But then you're opposite some of the greatest actors in the world and away you go. You find your imagination takes over without you really even thinking about it.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Alteration is a constructive act, not a destructive one, and it's the opposite of most of our impulses.
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There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble to recall and dare not seek to interpret.
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Opposites are complementary.
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In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.
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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.
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Death has an opposite, but the opposite is not mere living. It is not courage or faith or human will. The opposite of death is love. How had I missed that? How does anyone miss that? Love is our only weapon. Only love can turn mere life into a miracle, and draw precious meaning from suffering and fear
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I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.
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We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite.
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All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.
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Sometimes when you have children they're the opposites of you.
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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.
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A blue dog, you know, is the opposite of a yellow dog. And a yellow dog was somebody who was willing to follow his party even when he knew it was wrong.
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Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground.
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Most marriages I've known, and I've been married a long time and I've known a lot of married people - you wonder how they got together. Often they seem to be opposites.
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In reality opposites are one; art shows this.
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What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.
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You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.
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Work is the opposite of creativity.
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Maybe my sister and I shared more than we thought. We were both waiting and wishing for something we couldn't completely control: I wanted to be alone, and she the total opposite. It was weird, really, to have something so contrary in common. But at least it was something.
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Putting yourself first is not selfish. Quite the opposite. You must put your happiness and health first before you can be of help to anyone else.
