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Robert M. Pirsig The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.
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Virginia Woolf 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.
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Rebecca Solnit If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.
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Nelson Eddy In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.
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Nawal El Saadawi I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
opposites creative synthesis
Martin Luther King, Jr. But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.
opposites temptation satan
R. C. Sproul The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.
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R. Buckminster Fuller The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Mike Boyajian We've got to keep on scoring. Right now, all three of our lines are starting to score. A team can't concentrate on one of our lines. We're pretty deep.
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Mario Lemieux I thought the other lines were pretty good, as well. We'll see what happens.
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Antoni Gaudi There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.
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Richelle Mead My life didnʹt need to be on the line for me to enjoy dessert.
lines communicate bottom
Vinny Testaverde When you're on the road, you have to be louder and you have to communicate. That's really the bottom line.
lines bending force
William Whewell Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.
lines trends headlines
William J. Clinton Follow the trend lines, not the headlines.
lines infinite ends
Richard Francis Burton The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all , the puny all thou callest thine.
lines sound hell
Walter Huston Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.
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Jim Johnson Kerry's swift action in beginning this process to select a running mate indicates what type of president the nation can expect -- decisive, focused and ready to lead, ... I very much look forward to being part of the team that will bring change to America.
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Robert Kerr Kenya is a multi-party democracy and a modern world which has a benefit of hundred years of experience and debate from around the world on the subject of free speech and the accumulated wisdom that a free press is the essence of democratic governance, which makes government action during the standard raid so mystifying.
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Sophocles Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test, which is not fanciful; save by trial
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Samantha Lewthwaite Jamal is accountable for his actions 100 percent and I condemn with all my heart what he has done, ... I will try to remember for my children's sake the Jamal I loved and raise them knowing their father was a man who truly loved them. But the day will come when I'll have to tell them what he did.
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Tipu Munshi I would take stern action against the factory owner for this accident.
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Chuck McDonald John Eddie Williams has taken a sudden and expensive interest in the SD7 race. But instead of being upfront about his involvement in a Republican Party primary, Williams apparently attempted to hide his contribution by sending it through an innocuously named political action committee. Voters deserve to know the true source of campaign funding and the real players in the race.
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Ira Loss I suspect that this is a relatively isolated event. I don't think there's a crime wave under way in biology research. These actions usually come about because someone is under tremendous pressure to perform.
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Tom Daschle It again demonstrates why we have to address the infrastructure of our intelligence-gathering analysis and the actions that are taken as a result of that analysis, ... We've got a lot of work to do, and this is just the most recent reminder that we've got a problem here and it's got to be fixed and it's got to be done this year.
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John Shaw I think I told you (two weeks ago) it would be handled internally. I would prefer not to discuss what actions have been taken. But like I said to you, he was reprimanded, and it is being handled internally.