"I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side."
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"An intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd."
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"I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like."
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"In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness, but with qualities which are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning, cruelty."
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"i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature."
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"Success lies in the opposite direction of the normal pull."
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"In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away."
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"And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith."
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"Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary."
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"Character enough of an opposite description ... My opinion is ... that you could as soon scrub the blackamore white, as to change the principles of a profest Democrat; and that he will leave nothing unattempted to overturn the Government of this Country."
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"Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable."
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"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet."
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"The opposite of compromise is character."
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"Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin."
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"I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities."
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"Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear. . ."
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"When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist."
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"The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite."
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"The opposite of love is fear, not hate."
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"A Horcrux is the complete opposite of a human being."
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