Opposites Quotes
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Pink Floyd was music for rich college kids, and we were the exact f**king opposite of that.
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Since the market tends to go in the opposite direction of what the majority of people think, I would say 95% of all these people you hear on TV shows are giving you their personal opinion. And personal opinions are almost always worthless … facts and markets are far more reliable.
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Opposites are complementary.
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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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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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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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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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History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.
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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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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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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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In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.
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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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It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.
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In reality opposites are one; art shows this.
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My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.
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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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Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.
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There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.
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Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites.
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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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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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We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite.
