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The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's a part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space, and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity.
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The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.
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The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
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To be sure he's a ''Man,'' the male must see to it that the female be clearly a ''Woman,'' the opposite of a ''Man,'' that is, the female must act like a faggot.
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'Somebody That I Used to Know' by Goyte has an odd, '80s vibe to it, but that does not mean that I did not like it. Quite the opposite actually. The song is different, and slowly lured me in. The video is just as strange, but definitely enjoyable.
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A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.
Principles of Political Economy (1836) II, I, V -
A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people.
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A modern city is the exact opposite of what everyone wants.
Letter naar Robert Ross (31-5-1897) in Frank Harris - Oscar Wilde, His life and confessions -
After a two-term presidency, many young voters seem to want someone who is radically different from, even the opposite of, the commander in chief to whom they have become accustomed. After all, a two-term president will have led their nation for a significant percentage of their lives. That's boring. Isn't it time for a transformation?
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All those little acting rules you get, one of the interesting ones is, 'Play the opposite. Don't play 'victim.'
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.
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Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
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Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.
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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
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Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.
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Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.
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