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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. ↗

— Plato

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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction. ↗

— Plato

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With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite. ↗

— Bill Pullman

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You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous. ↗

— Chita Rivera

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Transformations don't scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite. ↗

— Alexandra Roach

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You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character. ↗

— Ray Romano

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Work is the opposite of creativity. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

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Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry. ↗

— Adrian Mitchell

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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. ↗

— George Santayana

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