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Tag Name "Opposite" (1279)

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The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.
John Wilbanks
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What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.
Steve Earle
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Except when you're marching to war, it's not a very optimistic thought, is it? In other words, it's the opposite of optimistic when you're thinking you're going to war.
George W. Bush
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Bacon is like the opposite of medicine. It's like, Take that, Lipitor.
Jim Gaffigan
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The media tends to portray the teenage world as one where drinking and sex is taken for granted. In fact, I think most teenagers don't drink, are unsure of themselves, and feel awkward around members of the opposite sex.
Louis Sachar
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Whatever success I've achieved has come from pretty much doing the opposite of what I've been told or expected to do.
Hal Riney
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Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment.
Guy Kawasaki
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She was the kind of gal that if she set her sights on a man, he'd be running in the opposite direction real quick.
Johanna Lindsey
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We know a thing by its opposite corollary hot by having experienced cold good by having decided what is bad love by hate.
Sylvia Plath
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Some clubs want to win so much they'll do anything to get it. Our approach has been just the opposite. We've tried to do things the right way. And the right way is [abiding by] the rules and regulations ... I may not like all of them, but once they are [official], we play by them.
Don Shula
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A lot of young girls think that the opposite of fake is rudeness. And just as ugly as fake is, so is saying whatever is on your mind because it's the truth.
Tyra Banks
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At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful.
Andre Breton
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Play doesn't have to be the opposite of work.
Jill Vialet
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
Thomas Mann
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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 support us and the rest of its living systems.
George Monbiot
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Faith: The opposite of dogmatism.
John Ralston Saul
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There are many things that were harder to discuss back in the 80's and early 90's than they are now, and this also works the opposite way for other things.
Nicky Gumbel
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The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
Albert Camus
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The unique idea of [The Darkest Time] movie is because in usual if you are in darkness, you are scared. But this movie is the opposite. In darkness, you are okay.
Timur Bekmambetov
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Faith is not a leap in the dark it’s the exact opposite. It’s a commitment based on evidence… It is irrational to reduce all faith to blind faith and then subject it to ridicule. That provides a very anti-intellectual and convenient way of avoiding intelligent discussion.
John Lennox
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There's no law of physics that says we have to be an unsustainable society - in fact, quite the opposite. The planet's ready to work with us if we're ready to think differently, but we do have to make that jump and start to do things in new ways.
Alex Steffen
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Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.
Robin Hobb
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People sometimes imagine that just because they have access to so many newspapers, radio and TV channels, they will get an infinity of different opinions. Then they discover that things are just the opposite: the power of these loudspeakers only amplifies the opinion prevalent at a certain time, to the point where it covers any other opinion.
Amin Maalouf
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She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.
Marguerite Duras
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