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• Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a… — Clara Barton
• All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. — Marc Chagall
• Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I… — Thomas Jefferson
• .. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities… — Plato
• Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their… — Edwin Percy Whipple
• We often wonder why God gives and takes, constricts and expands. What we forget is that human beings understand things by their… — Yasmin Mogahed
• Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled... — Christopher Hitchens
• My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites. — Kristin Bauer van Straten
• Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast. — Tacitus
• To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only… — Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• In every well-written play the battle rages between the primary powers of Good and Evil, and it is this battle which constitutes… — Michael Chekhov
• All colors are the friends of the neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. — The Forgotten

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