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Opposite Quotes by George Santayana
- Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has…
- To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will…
- Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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- Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite. — Honore de Balzac
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- The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people… — Warren G. Bennis
- Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the… — John Berger
- There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great… — Niels Bohr
- The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. — Niels Bohr
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- Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and… — Mel Brooks
- Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of… — James Broughton
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- The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare… — Jerry Brown