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For me to live in a world that is not inclusive of other people who are not Christian would be the opposite of Christianity.

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There rises the moon, broad and tranquil, through the branches of a walnut tree on a hill opposite. I apostrophize it in the words of Faust; "O gentle moon, that lookest for the last time upon my agonies!" --or something to that effect.

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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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People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

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Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure.

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

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It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.

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This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

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I've done a lot of independent film, which are short shoots that are usually four to six weeks, max. I enjoy everything. After one particular experience of work, I like to go in the opposite direction and do a short film, or something else.

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I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks.

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excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm afraid i'm becoming ridiculous

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A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.

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We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.

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

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I think it's fair to say that [Donald Trump] and I are sort of opposites in some ways.

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Some people think that because they do the opposite of what they are asked to do, they have initiative

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

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Education is implication. It is not the things you say which children respect; when you say things, they very commonly laugh and do the opposite. It is the things you assume which really sink into them. It is the things you forget even to teach that they learn.

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