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Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#case #either #expense #idealism #in other words

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike. ↗

— Wanda Sykes

#because #being #comedy #harder #i

I hadn't been able to trust since the age of four. I was torn between wanting to be cradled and telling the world to go fuck itself, and those were opposite sides of the same coin. ↗

— Betsy Lerner

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I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries. ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

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People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

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Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process. ↗

— Roger von Oech

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Sometimes you can really serve well and win the match because of the serve. I have the opposite thing now, so it's kind of hard. I can just really play with my forehand and backhand. ↗

— Agnieszka Radwanska

#hard #i #i can #just #kind

The Shrink always warned me that carriers stay wracked with lifelong guilt. It's not an uplifting thing having turned lovers into monsters. We feel bad that we haven't turned into monsters ourselves--survivor's guilt, that's called. And we feel a bit stupid that we didn't notice our own symptoms earlier. I mean, I'd been sort of wondering why the Atkins diet was giving me night vision. But that hadn't seemed like something to worry about... ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#funny #guilt #humor #ombies #parasites

There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air. ↗

— Travis Barker

#breath #fresh #fresh air #home #like

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. ↗

— Marc Chagall

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