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Virginia Woolf Novelist
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"The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced."

Differences Judging Opposites
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"The singers all loathe the sight of one another, the chorus despises the singers, they both hate the orchestra, and everyone fears the conductor; the staff on one prompt side won't talk to the staff on the opposite prompt side, the dancers are all crazed from hunger in any case."

Hate Opposites Sight
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Thomas Huxley Biologist, Anthropologist
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"Life is like walking along a crowded street--there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement--and yet, if one crosses over, matters are rarely mended."

Life Matter Opposites
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Tim Wu Legal Scholar
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"If we generally like the way things are now, we must also ask whether our current situation is really so different from the open ages of radio, film, or the telephone. Might it not also have seemed in those times that the orgy of limitless entrepreneurism would never end? The point is that we are near the high end of a pendulum arc that, so far, has aways begun to swing in the opposite direction -toward greater integration and centralization- with a force that can seem inexorable."

Age Opposites Swings
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Tim Wu Legal Scholar
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"I'm kind of concerned the combined effect, not only Google, all these companies is kind of to make us more boring and that seems the opposite of what the Internet was supposed to be."

Kind Opposites Google
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Tom Ford Fashion Designer
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"I have a driver in London because I am slightly dyslexic and cannot drive in the U.K.; after all, the traffic runs the opposite way to that in the United States."

Running United States Opposites
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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
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"My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy."

Writing Wall Opposites
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Timothy Keller Pastor, Author
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"In every other religion the indicative flows from the imperative. Which means, ‘because I do, therefore I am... because I do this, therefore I’m a child of God.’ But only in Christianity does the imperative flow from the indicative. ‘Because I am in Christ all these things, therefore I obey.’ Exactly the opposite."

Mean Children Opposites
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Serena Williams Tennis Player
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"Everyone in this room knows that Venus is probably one of the greatest people on the tour. She's really great. She's super professional. Complete opposite of me."

People Opposites Venus
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Simon Sinek Author, Motivational Speaker
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"It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of 'Moulin Rouge,' for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn't pretend to know all the answers - quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone."

People Opposites Curiosity
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"I’m staring into chocolate eyes. although my brain is clouded and I’m dizzy, I know enough to register that chocolate is the opposite of blue. I don’t want blue. Blue confuses me too much. Chocolate is straight-forward, easier to deal with."

Eye Opposites Blue
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"The script will point you in certain directions and I go the opposite if I can. I try do do one thing and tell a different story with my eyes. I believe what's more interesting is always what's not being said."

Believe Eye Opposites
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Sophocles Playwright, Philosopher
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"One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite."

Men Cities Opposites
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Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
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"... many folks take them seriously because they just 'know' that evolution can never be seen in the immediate here and now. In fact, a precisely opposite situation prevails: biologists have documented a veritable glut of cases for rapid and eminently measurable evolution on timescales of years and decades."

Years Facts Opposites
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