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“There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.”

Ifs Made Next Decision Mouths Opposites Convinced Hello Right Decision

Author:Rich Lowry

“You can think of my films as cautionary tales, but you might even think of them as despairing tales, because at least in a cautionary tale, you have this idea that by listening to the story you can assure a better outcome. Whereas I'm not at all convinced that's the case. In fact, if anything, I'm convinced that it's the opposite.”

Ifs Thinking Ideas Facts Stories Might Film Cases Listening Opposites Convinced Tales Outcomes Cautionary Tales

Author:Errol Morris

“Do not open your mouth to tell me that your mind has convinced you of your right to force my mind. Force and mind are opposites. Morality ends where a gun begins.”

Mind Ends Force Morality Mouths Gun Opposites Convinced

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“People think the camera steals their soul. Places, I am convinced, are affected in the opposite direction. The more they are photographed (or drawn and painted) the more soul they seem to accumulate.”

People Thinking Soul Seems Opposites Cameras Photographer Convinced Stealing Affected

Book:Permutations on the picturesque

Source: Permutations on the picturesque

“we have complaints that institutional dominance of the stock market has put 'the small investor at a disadvantage because he can't compete with the trust companies' huge resources, etc. The facts are quite the opposite. It may be that the institutions are better equipped than the individual to speculate in the market.But I am convinced that an individual investor with sound principles, and soundly advised, can do distinctly better over the long pull than large institutions.”

May Long Facts Individual Sound Can Do Company Principles Huge Resources Opposites Institutions Convinced Etc Investors Complaints Disadvantages Dominance

Author:Benjamin Graham

“We're convinced we need money to have friends and partners, but actually I've found the opposite to be true.”

Needs Found Opposites Convinced Partners Being True Need Money

Author:Mark Boyle

“You know, our fundamentalist friends dislike the teaching of evolution in schools because of the effect they feel it has on our view of our own special importance, while liberals insist that scientific and spiritual matters can be kept in separate compartments. On this point, I tend to agree with the fundamentalists, though I come to opposite conclusions about teaching evolution because I am convinced it's true.”

Knows Feels Matter School Spiritual Views Teaching Special Effects Evolution Opposites Importance Agree Convinced Conclusion Dislike Fundamentalist

Book:Facing Up

Source: Facing Up

“I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.”

Life Feels Made Happiness Nature Virtue Possibility Gratitude Discovery Opposites Convinced Odd Cheer Gardener Savants

Author:Bertrand Russell

“She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste.”

People Life Needs Writing Kind Shows Lines Paper Opposites Meetings Surprise Bottom Convinced Casual Tubes Toothpaste Hopscotch

Book:Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much

Source: Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much

“But they had, perversely, been living among people who were peering into the wrong end of the telescope, or something, and who had convinced themselves that the opposite was true - that the world had once been a splendid, orderly place...and that everything had been slowly, relentlessly falling apart ever since.”

People World Ends Fall Opposites Convinced Falling Apart Splendid Orderly Telescopes

Author:Neal Stephenson

“Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the next new thing loomed up and impelled him in the opposite direction, which also felt right. There was no controlling narrative: he seemed to himself a purely reactive pinball in a game whose only object was to stay alive for staying alive's sake.”

Next Games Felt Alive Objects Opposites Sake Convinced Narrative Staying New Things Staying Alive Pinball

Author:Jonathan Franzen