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To be free is better than to be unfree – always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect.

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Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.

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Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.

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What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!

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Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

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To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.

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The truth is you can't try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.

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Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. Further, in dealing with certain persons, even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible.

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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

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There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble to recall and dare not seek to interpret.

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Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness of all things. It conveys awe for the intricate and subtle way in which the universe is put together.

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It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.

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Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.

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In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

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In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

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The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

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In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

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The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

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Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.

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The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.

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