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“There is a brotherliness about a drinking person, which is coldly lacking in the straight and narrow enemies of drink; the difference between the two is more marked than nationality or belief: it is an opposite species altogether. It is against the unwritten laws of congeniality for them to mix. For me, a man who does not drink is distinctly indecent.”

Men Persons Doe Two Law Belief Differences Enemy Drink Opposites Drinking Species Lacking Nationality Unwritten Congeniality

Author:Caitlin Thomas

“Culture dictated from above is the enemy of folk music. Whether it's stuffy classical music or pre-engineered pop where somebody's paid tons of money to make sure that everyone hears this song a certain number of times a day - that feels like the opposite of folk music.”

Feels Certain Song Culture Numbers Enemy Opposites Paid Folks Pops Classical Music Folk Music

Author:Will Sheff

“It is ironic that those who seek to blend and destroy individual racial identities are the biggest enemies of diversity, while simultaneously claiming to support diversity. The end result of that form of diversity is the exact opposite of their stated goal: the destruction of individual identities and ultimately, the destruction of diversity.”

Ends Form Individual Goal Results Enemy Support Identity Diversity Destruction Opposites Ironic End Results Racial Identity

Author:Arthur Kemp

“General Napoleon says that 'Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.' Well, I suggest doing the opposite: Interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Don't be opportunist; don't benefit from the weakness of your enemy! Be just even to your enemy! Try to find a way to defeat him without harming him; prove to be as intelligent as to find such a way! Only then, your victory will be meaningful and honourable!”

Way Trying Wells Mistake Enemy Victory Prove Benefits Weakness Opposites Intelligent Defeat Meaningful Making Mistakes Opportunist

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Enemies of art are the opposite of the Sun; they emit darkness instead of light!”

Art Light Enemy Darkness Sun Opposites

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“To discover how much of our resources must be mobilized for war, we must first examine our political aim and that of the enemy. We must gauge the strength and situation of the opposite state. We must gauge the character and abilities of its government and people and do the same in regard to our own. Finally, we must evaluate the political sympathies of other states and the effect the war may have on them.”

People Firsts May War States Character Government Political Ability Situation Enemy Effects Resources Opposites Regard Aim Evaluate Gauges

Author:Carl von Clausewitz

“Fashion is the opposite of the real, its worst enemy. Fashion photography is subversive; it makes you believe everything is true, whereas this could not be more false. It is the opposite of a mirror, a deformation.”

Believe Real Enemy Worst Fashion Photography Opposites Mirrors Subversive Worst Enemy Fashion Photography

Author:Patrick Demarchelier

“I have learned a new form of service from the wars of Frederick, king of Prussia. It is not necessary to approach the enemy in order to attack him. In fleeing from him, it is possible to circumvent him as he advances and fall on him from the rear and force him to surrender. What is needed is not to strike straight at evil but to withdraw to the sources of divine power, and from there to circle around evil, bend it and transform it into its opposite.”

War Form Order Fall Evil Force Enemy Divine Source Kings Needed Approach Opposites Strikes Circles Surrender I Have Learned Fleeing Divine Power Prussia

Book:Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings

Source: Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings

“Hatred of the people who hate you, that is the opposite of being the enemy. I want to fight fire with water wherever I can.”

People Want I Can Hate Fighting Water Enemy Fire Hatred Opposites Hate You

Author:Van Jones

“We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It's just that our perception of it isn't.”

Believe Done Life Is Found Perfect Enemy Balance Perception Opposites Diminish Perfect Balance

Author:Queen Rania of Jordan

“[T]hat state, love, is so utterly alien to that other idea without which we cannot live as human beings --- the idea of justice. It is only because love is so profoundly the enemy of justice that our minds, shrinking in horor from its true nature, try to tame it by uniting it with its opposite [...] in the hope that if we apply all the metaphors of normality, that if we heap them high enough, we shall, in the end, be able to approximate that state metaphorically.”

Ifs Trying Mind Humans Ideas Ends States Enough Able Justice Human Beings Love Is Enemy Opposites Metaphor Aliens Hats True Nature Shrinking Normality Uniting

Author:Amitav Ghosh

“Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.”