#opposite

Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition. ↗

— John Acton

#absolute power #authority #based #between #choices

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#absolutely #appears #course #disappearance #ends

I don't think Roger Dodger is really about men. I think it is more about relationships and about how you present yourself, not only to the opposite sex, but to yourself. What lies are you going to tell yourself in order to get through the day? ↗

— Jennifer Beals

#day #dodger #get #going #how

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#culture #fulfillment #globe #humanities #learn

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#ever #everyone #exact #exact opposite #knew

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#fact #falsehood #may #opposite #profound

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true. ↗

— Niels Bohr

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#false #great #great truth #opposite #plainly

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#alive #arms #around #death #flap