“ It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire,'. ”
- Mikhail Gorbachev- Copy
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“ To abandon oneself to principles is really to die — and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
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“ All the kinds of things... contrary to what the look is,... I could do a high heel with a jumpsuit, or I might do a gown with a desert boot. So it's, again, the contradiction. ”
- Ralph Lauren- Copy
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“ To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd… ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. ”
- Niels Bohr- Copy
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“ The dictate of the light says: "Know yourself and what you are." The dark replies, "By all means, but then become afraid.". ”
- Tanith Lee- Copy
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“ Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. ”
- Dag Hammarskjold- Copy
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“ Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. ”
- Herman Hesse- Copy
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“ It's now time for all of us — those who supported the merger and those who opposed it — to pull together for the benefit of the company. ”
- Carly Fiorina- Copy
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“ I was a very frustrated, lonely and anti-social young man. I felt very alienated and very bored as well. ”
- Brian Molko- Copy
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“ All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. ”
- Marc Chagall- Copy
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“ Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. ”
- Andy Warhol- Copy
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“ I was recently on a tour of Latin America,and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people. ”
- Dan Quayle- Copy
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“ What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. ”
- Hannah Arendt- Copy
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“ Two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are obviously absurd, and profound truths, recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth. ”
- Niels Bohr- Copy
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“ Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite. ”
- Edward Albee- Copy
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“ The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves. ”
- Confucius- Copy
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“ To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform. ”
- John Negroponte- Copy
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“ The popular notion of an antithesis between appearance and reality has exercised a very powerful influence on scientific and philosophical thought. ”
- Ernst Mach- Copy
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“ We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'. ”
- Dan Quayle- Copy
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“ Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing. ”
- Ben Hogan- Copy
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