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The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is… — Douglas Adams
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… — George Santayana
The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all… — Leonardo da Vinci
Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. — Dag Hammarskjold
The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words. — George Steiner
I try to only eat animals that are vegan. I'm probably the opposite of a vegan. — Jim Gaffigan
The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases,… — John Berger
One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is… — John Fowles
The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that,… — Giacomo Leopardi
Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come;… — Madame de Stael
Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup… — Frederic Raphael
The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn… — Ruth Benedict
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on… — Claude Levi-Strauss
In Canada you grow up - we're next to the United States. We're watching whatever you're watching. We're following your news. It's obvious that we… — Rick Mercer
Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite. — Frank Capra
Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder. — Rudolf Arnheim
There are a lot of things that I love, but if you're just completely invested in those things, their opposite can kick you over... So… — Rebecca De Mornay
Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on… — Benjamin Netanyahu
Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was… — Jo Nesbo
When you have little girls, you're the coolest person in the world. I know at some point that's going to end; in their adolescence I'll… — Jerry O'Connell
There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty. — Keith O'Brien
My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite… — Kenzaburo Oe
What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C.… — Kal Penn
..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of… — C.S. Lewis
The more popular a person thinks he is in the blogosphere, the thinner his skin and the thicker his hypocrisy. This should be exactly the… — Guy Kawasaki

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