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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail. ↗

— David O. Selznick

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Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them. ↗

— June Singer

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Action and reaction are equal and opposite. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation. ↗

— Sting

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Fitness is a curve. You can be Lance Armstrong, or you can be really out of shape at the opposite end. People enter the curve wherever they are and then they can move up the curve, by better nutrition and better exercise. ↗

— Gordon Strachan

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People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley. ↗

— Serj Tankian

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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. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

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