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opposites walks setting
Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society. Richard Dawkins
opposites funny-things envy
The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you. Robert M. Pirsig
opposites differences judging
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. Virginia Woolf
opposites water gold
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. Rebecca Solnit
opposites telling-the-truth
In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite. Nelson Eddy
opposites would-be patient
The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic John Green
opposites luxury
Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary. Karl Marx
opposites creative-space world
What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons. Kal Penn
opposites anxiety poverty
The opposite of Prosperity is not poverty. It is anxiety. Julia Cameron
luxury fiction happy-endings
Happy endings are a luxury of fiction Trudi Canavan
luxury community support
A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support. Wentworth Miller
luxury affluence hungry
What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty? Samuel Richardson
luxury soul stones
Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone. W. H. Auden
luxury democracy firsts
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price. Robert Orben
luxury agents getting-high
The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society. William Graham Sumner
luxury people suffering
As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too. Samuel Johnson
luxury lap libertine
Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine. George Bancroft
luxury money
The greatest luxury of having money should be not having to worry about it. David Whyte