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I felt that if a man's proposals met with approval, it should encourage him; if they met with opposition, it should make him fight back; but the real tragedy for him was to lift up his voice among the living and meet with no response neither approval nor opposition just as if he were left helpless in a boundless desert. Lu Xun
...Paranoid art, unlike paranoid persons, also distrusts itself. And so, paranoid art is the ultimate opposite, the urgent opposite, of complacent art. Jonathan Lethem
Before we congratulate ourselves upon the absence of certain faults from our nation or society, we ought to ask ourselves why it is that these faults are absent. Are we without the fault because we have the opposite virtue? Or are we without the fault because we have the opposite fault? Gilbert K. Chesterton
Niels Bohr quote: "You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a..."
You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth. Niels Bohr
He (the devil) always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites...He relies on your extra dislike of one to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through between both errors. We have no other concern than that with either of them. C. S. Lewis
Will Rogers quote: "If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?"
If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress? Will Rogers
But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God. Charles Hodge
Paul Harvey quote: "If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of..."
If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'? Paul Harvey
On tour, I'll get up at 5 p. m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind; it's the opposite of healthy. Dean Ween
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be. Archibald MacLeish
Coco Chanel quote: "Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is..."
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. Coco Chanel
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters. Walter Lippmann
Georg C. Lichtenberg quote: "To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation,..."
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite. Georg C. Lichtenberg
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. Gottfried Leibniz
Fran Lebowitz quote: "The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of..."
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. Fran Lebowitz

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