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While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

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Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them. And I shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appear to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite.

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To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect.

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

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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

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Just like I described in health care, yeah, somebody comes in, they got new ideas, maybe ideas that are completely opposite of my ideas. Maybe some of it goes, maybe some of that progress goes back. Maybe they think of some things we didn't think of, and so in some other areas - we can learn something.

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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 avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

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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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As long as the National Socialist Movement is leading Germany-and that will be the case for the next few centuries, no matter how often our emigrants conjure up the opposite view- this opinion will not change.

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

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Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

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

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And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

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

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