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The ultimate way of Being lies beyond all contradictory pairs of opposites with which our two dimensional thinking mind operates. As soon… — Anagarika Govinda Copy Share Image
It requires strength of character in order to think and to act in opposite fashion from the crowd and also patience to… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Honestly, it's the luck of the draw. If you are comfortable with the actor that you're opposite of - it just breaks… — James Wolk Copy Share Image
My head was level with hers as we stared at each other from opposite sides of the glass. I don't remember how… — John Green Copy Share Image
Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I was reading emails from women who are alternately chuckling or outraged. One of them said, "Do you hate women? Would you… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I also think regime change in Syria is a bad idea. And that's an ongoing question. It's one of the things I… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Listen, the environmental movement is not about protecting the fishes and the birds so much as recognizing that nature is the infrastructure… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
It is illuminating to note, here, how the daily rituals and working routines of prolific authors and artists - people who really… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
I find that I end up liking songs if I really have an idea of something I wat to write about-some problem… — Rivers Cuomo Copy Share Image
We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
One group of scholars or persons, most of them politically motivated, say the Holocaust occurred. Then there is the group of scholars… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
The world is filled with people who are no longer needed. And who try to make slaves of all of us. And… — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
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The distinction between shame and guilt is very important, since these two emotions may tear a person in opposite directions. The wish… — Paul Ekman Copy Share Image
When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My life has been the polar opposite of safe, but I am proud of it and so is my son, and that… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I was walking around trying to act cool, like I had no fear at all. But I was afraid, afraid that somebody… — Stevie Ray Vaughan Copy Share Image
Men are weak and constantly need reassurance, so now that they fail to find adulation in the opposite sex, they're turning to… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
Analogies and metaphors have often proved pivotal in expanding our thoughts both within and without science, and so one should not discourage… — Tony Rothman Copy Share Image
In the case of complex personalities the matter stands thus: one of these can understand other men better than they can understand… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
The true secret of natural goodness lies in the recognition of the contending rights of the Pairs of Opposites; there is no… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take… — William Petersen Copy Share Image
'When you have a lemon, make a lemonade.' That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite.… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never… — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
... on principle, it is quite wrong to try founding a theory on observable magnitudes alone. In reality the very opposite happens.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or… — Christopher Eccleston Copy Share Image
know that without night there is no day; without lies, no truth;without despair,no hope. Beware above all of hate, but call to… — David Clement-Davies Copy Share Image
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When you trust in yourself, you are trusting in the same wisdom that created you. When you fail to trust in yourself,… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Since I'm a novelist I'm the opposite of you - I believe that what's most important is what cannot be measured. I'm… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The various elements of truth stand in perpetual antithesis, sometimes requiring us to believe apparent opposites while we wait for the moment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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