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“I have often been amused by our vulgar tendency to take complex issues, with solutions at neither extreme of a continuum of possibilities, and break them into dichotomies, assigning one group to one pole and the other to an opposite end, with no acknowledgment of subtleties and intermediate positions and nearly always with moral opprobrium attached to opponents.”

Source: The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

“My words like eyes that flinch from light, refuse And shut upon obscurity; my acts Cast to their opposites by impatient violence Break up the sequent path; they fly On a circumference to avoid the centre.”

Light Eye Break Path Violence Opposites Casts Refuse Shut Up Centre Impatient Obscurity

Book:World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender

Source: World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender

“Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.”

People Feels Break Comfortable Opposites Our Society Conformity Cowardice Powerless Mold Break Out

Author:Rollo May

“With any television series - and it's something that is taken for granted with movies because you have the whole arc within two hours - you establish who the character is and it's a two-dimensional version, or if you're lucky, a two and a half-dimensional character. Once you establish that, you can move forward and break all the rules. Once the audience has accepted who the person is, then you can do the exact opposite. What makes it funny and interesting is doing the opposite.”

Ifs Persons Two Character Moving Can Do Interesting Half Break Audience Television Lucky Opposites Series Accepted Versions Moving Forward

Author:Rashida Jones

“If you don't know a light bulb is a three-way light bulb, it messes with your head. You reach to turn it off, and it just gets brighter! That's the exact opposite of what I wanted you to do! So you turn the switch again, and it gets brighter once more! I will break you, light bulb!”

Ifs Knows Way Humor Light Wanted Funny Turns Three Break Opposites Mess Brighter Bulbs Light Bulb Three Ways

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I was so tired, wasn't having fun any more, and wasn't sure if I wanted to do this any longer. So I turned my phone off and sorted my head out. It was the opposite of a breakdown really, it was a break-up - I got rid of all the idiots, realised my job was supposed to be fun, and got on with my life.”

Ifs Wanted Jobs Fun Break Opposites Tired Phones Supposed To Be Idiot Having Fun Realised Breakdown

Author:Simon Cowell

“I use [Heraclitus' discovery of] enantiodromia for the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time. This characteristic phenomenon practically always occurs when an extreme, onesided tendency dominates conscious life; in time an equally powerful counterposition is built up, which first inhibits the conscious performance and subsequently breaks through the conscious control.”

Firsts Use Courses Powerful Break Conscious Discovery Built Opposites Performances Extremes Tendencies Characteristics Unconscious Phenomenon Break Through Emergence

Book:Psychological Types

Source: Psychological Types

“Honestly, it's the luck of the draw. If you are comfortable with the actor that you're opposite of - it just breaks down a lot of those insecurities and you can just say, "Okay, I trust this person, and I respect them and know they respect me," and then you can just go with it. When that doesn't exist, it's a lot harder to let go.”

Ifs Knows Persons Actors Break Letting Go Comfortable Draws Okay Opposites Harder Luck Honestly Insecurity Breaking Down Respect Me

Author:James Wolk

“Decade after decade, the police culture has been just the very opposite. And that`s been to ignore or to rally around. And that`s something that systematically we are going to need to break this blue wall of silence if we`re ever going to dramatically change and end the culture of police violence.”

Ifs Needs Has Beens Ends Culture Silence Break Violence Wall Opposites Police Blue Decades Police Violence

Author:Hakeem Jeffries

“Because present procedures by design favor the affluent, the poor are being increasingly marginalized. And because the poor are so marginalized, they can exert little influence on institutional design decisions. We need to break out of this vicious spiral and create momentum in the opposite direction.”

Needs Littles Decision Poor Break Influence Design Opposites Favors Vicious Procedures Momentum Break Out Spirals Marginalized Affluent

Author:Thomas Pogge

“Narcissism is actually a clever guise adopted to mask its exact opposite, which is a deep well of self-loathing, a well of low self-esteem, rather than high self-esteem. This helps explain why narcissists are so sensitive to criticism, why narcissists tend to break into outrage if they're criticized, because their self-esteem is actually much more brittle than it seems, and once they're challenged, that mask falls apart.”

“I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have never seen; which is so far from people’s ideas of state structure or viable social structure that it seems to them like total anarchy — when what it really is, is very subtle forms of interrelation that do not follow some heirarchal pattern which is fundamentally patriarchal. The opposite to patriarchy is not matriarchy but fraternity, yet I think it’s women who are going to have to break this spiral of power and find the trick of cooperation.”

“What opposite discoveries we have seen! (Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve's rockets.”

Kind Has Beens Science Break Genius Discovery Empty Opposites Bones Noses Emptiness Pockets Rockets Antithesis Guillotine Vaccinations True Genius Empty Pockets

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“The world in which we live today-reflecting in so many way the opposite of our sweetness and love-reminds us how desperately important it is to break the spell that's been cast on the human race and retrieve our shining self.”

World Way Life Humans Important Self Today Race Break Opposites And Love Shining Casts Human Race Spells Sweetness Reflecting Live For Today

Book:The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

Source: The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition