"The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction."
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"We're intellectual opposites. Well, I'm intellectual and you're opposite."
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"If we can stay with the tension of opposites long enough —sustain it, be true to it—we can sometimes become vessels within which the divine opposites come together and give birth to a new reality."
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"The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life."
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"Personally, I didn't think there was anything wrong with sadness. Just the opposite – hypocrisy made people happy and truth made them sad."
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"When you follow your heart, you're never supposed to do things because of what you think people might say. You do it for the opposite reasons."
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"The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides."
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"Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd."
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"Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you."
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"The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both."
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"And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose."
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"Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same."
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"Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal."
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"It should be clear that the death penalty does just the opposite of promoting decency and respect for life. It dehumanizes people and promotes murder. It can never be applied fairly."
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"One of my favorite clothing patterns is camouflage. Because when you're in the woods it makes you blend in. But when you're not it does just the opposite. It's like, 'Hey, there's an asshole.'"
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"The keystone of the entire structure of the spiritual and physical universe is Rhythmic Balanced Interchange between all opposites."
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"The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind."
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"Disregarding all evidence to the contrary, the student of Truth will maintain that he lives in a PERFECT Universe and among people potentially perfect. He will regulate his thinking to meet this necessity and refuse to believe in its opposite. At first he may be influenced by conditions, and he may appear weak, but as time goes on he will PROVE TO HIMSELF that his position is a correct one, for that which appears imperfect will begin to slip from his experience"
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"I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being."
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"I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive."
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