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“In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.”

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Author:Tim Ferriss

“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.”

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Book:Psychological Types

Source: Psychological Types

“It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our current knowledge, that totally opposite conclusions are drawn about prehistoric conditions on Earth, depending on whether the problem is approached from the biological or the geophysical viewpoint.”

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Author:Alfred Wegener

“I.Q. deficiency. There are some people who are an order of fries short of a Happy Meal, and what is often a characteristic about every one of these people is that they don't know it. They have no idea how incompetent or stupid they are. It's the exact opposite. They have the loftiest, highest self-image.”

People Knows Ideas Self Order Stupid Highest Opposites No Idea Meals Characteristics Deficiency Incompetent Fries

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism. We see here the instability and fluctuations now so characteristic. The emotions develop by contrast and reaction into the opposite.”

Children States Natural Emotion Emotional Opposites Hot Reactions Impulse Characteristics Contrast Teens Psychics Unstable Instability Fluctuation Emotionally Unstable

Author:G. Stanley Hall

“All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.”

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Author:Zosia Mamet