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I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

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Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior. ↗

— William Shenstone

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Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former. ↗

— William Shenstone

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I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength. ↗

— Brooke Shields

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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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I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it. ↗

— Aaron Stanford

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Although I'd always wanted children, it was such an opposite thing to being a singer. ↗

— Gwen Stefani

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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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