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“But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of perversity to enter into the hitherto passive soul.”

Wells Soul Causes Advice Effects Opposites Passive Perversity

Author:Caitlin Thomas

“It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.”

Happiness Causes Virtue Exercise Activity Opposites Active Faculty Conformity

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“Don't make your wedding a pleasant memory in this life but a source of misery in the next. Make it an eternally good memory. In trying to have a halal wedding, you might sacrifice many relationships but the opposite might mean sacrificing the only relationship that will matter in the hereafter for a bunch of people who don't even really care about you. Don't make one night the cause of your regret for an eternity.”

“If God causes man to be sick, sickness must be good, and its opposite, health, must be evil, for all that He makes is good and will stand forever. If the transgression of God's law produces sickness, it is right to be sick; and we cannot if we would, and should not if we could, annul the decrees of wisdom. It is the transgression of a belief of mortal mind, not of a law of matter nor of divine Mind, which causes the belief of sickness. The remedy is Truth, not matter,--the truth that disease is unreal.”

Ifs Men Should Mind Matter Law Evil Belief Causes Forever Produce Divine Disease Opposites Sick Illness Be Good Mortals Sickness Remedy Unreal Decree Transgression

Author:Mary Baker Eddy

“Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.”

Doe Suffering Causes Opinion Opposites Possession Ownership Rapture

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“As soon as we ask what faith is and what sort of mistreatment of faith causes doubt, we are led to the first major misconception about doubt-the idea that doubt is always wrong because it is the opposite of faith and the same thing as unbelief. What this error leads to is a view of faith that is unrealistic and a view of doubt that is unfair.”

Firsts Ideas Asks Causes Views Doubt Majors Opposites Errors Unfair Misconception Unbelief Always Wrong Mistreatment

Author:Os Guinness

“Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?”

Humans Causes Goal Results Activity Opposites Realization True Nature Human Activity

Book:Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays

Source: Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays

“Sanctions have nothing to do with this [relations with the People's Republic of China]. The decline in our mutual trade has objective causes, which are the energy prices and the exchange rate difference. But the physical volumes have not decreased, quite the opposite actually. They are growing.”

People Energy Causes Differences Growing Opposites Relation Trade Rate China Objectives Mutual Republic Decline Volume Sanctions

Author:Vladimir Putin

“I often think people on opposite sides of the political spectrum may have similar values around care, around thriving or around independence, or around helping the disadvantaged, but they have different ideologies, different ideas and philosophies about how to go about that. It's important that we start to see each others humanness, while at the same time not losing sight of those differences, views and speeches and actions that do cause harm, that we're clearly taking a stand against.”

“In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out with a cry of pain. How strange, I thought that the same cause should produce such opposite effects.”

Should Hands Pain Joy Causes Effects Cry Produce Strange Opposites Thrust Embers

Book:Frankenstein

Source: Frankenstein

“Viscosity and velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination, velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.”

Ifs Looks Persons Stills Life Is Causes Opposites Silent Busy Stillness Observers Fascination Inner Life Velocity

Book:Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

“Life is chaotic and unpredictable. If a butterfly flaps its wings in one part of the world, it could cause people at the opposite end of the globe to watch a Discovery Channel special on butterflies”

People Ifs World Ends Life Is Causes Watches Special Discovery Opposites Wings Butterfly Globes Unpredictable Chaotic

Author:Stephen Colbert

“Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.”

Love Inspirational Giving Doe Suffering Causes Giving Up Opposites Ownership Don't Give Up Funny Relationship

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Another argument holds that opposing Saddam Hussein would cause even greater troubles in that part of the world, and interfere with the larger war against terror. I believe the opposite is true.”

World Believe War I Believe Causes Greater Trouble Argument Opposites Terror Interfere Saddam Hussein Opposing

Author:Dick Cheney