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There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble to recall and… — H P Lovecraft
A fanatic is always the fellow that is on the opposite side. — Will Rogers
I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to… — Karen Thompson Walker
Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate" implies weakness. — Frederick Lenz
They have rejected that power and sought to convince women of the exact opposite, that they are powerless. — Frederick Lenz
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward. Most people do the exact opposite: They only… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
What can be the dharma at one point in your life can totally reverse itself, and suddenly you might be doing something the opposite or… — Frederick Lenz
You need to accept the fact that you will often do exactly the opposite of what you think is right. You need to accept that… — Frederick Lenz
It's a civil war, and Arjuna knows a lot of people who are on the opposite side of the battlefield - they've been his friends. — Frederick Lenz
The pathway to enlightenment is joyful. It may sound harsh. I suggest just the opposite. It is rather easy compared to the possibilities of staying… — Frederick Lenz
Knowingness is sexy. The opposite of sexy is naivete. — Fran Lebowitz
When you're working with film, you can only shoot one angle at a time, and then everything has to stop, and you re-light it and… — Chris Pratt
I like hard movies; I like ones that are basically the opposite of a date movie. — John Waters
Since the market tends to go in the opposite direction of what the majority of people think, I would say 95% of all these people… — William O'Neil
Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and… — George Packer
It's a great myth that the British public want our soldiers to be sent into harm's way on a bogus prospectus for ignoble reasons. There… — George Galloway
Humor is not the opposite of seriousness. Humor is the opposite of despair. — Conrad Hyers
The market likes to lull you into the false security of high success rate techniques, which often lose disastrously in the long run. The general… — William Eckhardt
It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it… — Todd Burpo
It's a misconception that love can only foster between two people of opposite sex. Love is a bond. — Randeep Hooda
PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our emerging data literacy.… — Clive Thompson
Our culture says Status is more important than Wealth, but we teach the opposite. — Orrin Woodward
Why is an actor's unintentional giggling called a 'corpse'? It seems to me quite the opposite. It proves that he's very much alive, and can… — Antony Sher
History does seem to repeat itself hence it's mindboggling to still hear the 'avoid all negative people' speeches from, of all people, supposedly important spiritual… — Criss Jami
Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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