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Accordingly if the devil should say, 'Do not drink,' you should reply to him, 'On this very account, because you forbid it, I shall drink,… — Martin Luther
Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath.... Thin people… — Hippocrates
Whenever I think about an issue, I always argue the opposite side of it. So, when I ultimately decide on a course of action, I've… — Kenneth Chenault
Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions where the players… — Alexander Kotov
God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can't claim to be good if you have never been tempted… — Rick Warren
[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
How little has situation to do with happiness. The happy individual uses their intelligence to realise things could be worse and therefore is grateful and… — Fanny Burney
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin or when he sees silver he looks for the cloud… — H. L. Mencken
It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their… — A. N. Wilson
Prosperity is the opposite of greedy. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first. — Terry Pratchett
First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction… — Anita Roddick
In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In film, words are… — Nicholas Ray
I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents. — Bill Griffith
If we generally like the way things are now, we must also ask whether our current situation is really so different from the open ages… — Tim Wu
True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
The ant is a collectively intelligent and individually stupid animal; man is the opposite. — Karl von Frisch
The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry — Peter Kreeft
It is necessary to recover the primeval force of the shock taking place at the moment when opposite a man (the viewer) there stood for… — Unknown Author
We live under the power of Modern Consciousness, which means that we are obsessed with progress. Wherever you are is not good enough. We always… — Satish Kumar
I mean the opposite of what I say./You've got it now? No, it's the other way. — Bruce Bennett
Don't think of the Internet as a broadcast medium...think of it as a conversational space. Conversation is the opposite of marketing. It's talking in our… — David Weinberger
Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite. — James MacDonald
Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of… — Robert Fortune
Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of emotion, content to… — Michael Dirda

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