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Anarchy: It is NOT bombs, disorder or chaos. It is NOT robbery and murder. It is NOT a war of each against all. It is… — Alexander Berkman
Keith's [Briffa] series...differs in large part in exactly the opposite direction that Phil's [Jones] does from ours. This is the problem we all picked up… — Michael E. Mann
Chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction induces a deviation in the opposite direction to restore the… — Amos Tversky
You can achieve anything if you believe in yourself. But the opposite is also true; without strong self-belief you will not go far. — Paulo Coelho
Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear expression also becomes… — Zhuangzi
I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of… — Eric Bana
Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren't opposite-the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be.. — Deepak Chopra
Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life. — Marina Keegan
Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the Earth's capacity to… — George Monbiot
Her theme was happiness: what it was; what it was not; where we might find it, where not; and how, if found, it must be… — Mary Lavin
It is tragic-comic to see that all this knowledge and understanding exercises no power at all over men's lives, that their lives do not express… — Soren Kierkegaard
I'm not afraid of a world with less consumerism, less 'stuff' and no economic growth. I'm far more frightened of the opposite — Rob Hopkins
Justice and I became friends, though we were opposites in many ways - he was extroverted, I was introverted; he was lighthearted, I was serious. — Nelson Mandela
Indexing is a successful approach to investing not because it's simple, but because it has performed so much better than the average active manager (the… — Patrick Geddes
What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish… — Nick Laird
The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. — Elie Wiesel
Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it… — Robertson Davies
I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote. — Joe Strummer
The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind. — May Sarton
Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites. Chaos and Order combined equal balance. — Richard Garriott
The opposite of compromise is character. — Frederick Douglass
All things come into being by conflict of opposites. — Heraclitus
For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction. — Norman Ralph Augustine
A human life has seasons much as the earth has seasons, each time with its own particular beauty and power. And gift. By focusing on… — Rachel Naomi Remen

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