#opposite

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say. ↗

— Abba Eban

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Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again. ↗

— Richard Foreman

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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

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The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation. ↗

— Jonathan Larson

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Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same. ↗

— Bill Laswell

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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite. ↗

— Sam Levenson

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The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views. ↗

— Maimonides

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