Barack Obama Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Opposites Quotes

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

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Opposites Quotes , Spirituality Quotes

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

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Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may differ, the will of all is therefore not that of all: which is contradictory and opposite to liberty.

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The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

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

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Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility.

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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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Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.

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Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above.

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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

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Cultivated people foster what is good in others, not what is bad. Petty people do the opposite.

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When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.

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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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Tags : A. N. Wilson Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Opposites Quotes

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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Tags : Adelaide Clemens Quotes , Independent Quotes , Opposites Quotes

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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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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