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“I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete. Human unity is the fulfillment of diversity. It is the harmony of opposites. It is a many-stranded texture, with color and depth.”

Ifs Men Humans Belief Liberty Failing Color Diversity Opposites Harmony Unity Depth Hungry Fulfillment Texture Incomplete Stranded

Book:The Celebration of Life: A Dialogue on Hope, Spirit, and the Immortality of the Soul

Source: The Celebration of Life: A Dialogue on Hope, Spirit, and the Immortality of the Soul

“If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Ideas Bigs Loss Sin Wonderful One Thing Terrible Opposites Profit

Author:Vernon Howard

“If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?”

Ifs Humor Funny Clear Failing Cry Communication Failure Opposites Revolutionary Monk Rebellious

Author:Anton Chekhov

“If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred in the opposite direction, and pictured Nature when she was 'young and wantoned [sic] in her prime', as moving with the lame sedateness of advanced middle age. It became necessary, therefore, as Dr. [Samuel] Haughton expresses it, 'to hurry up the phenomena'.”

Ifs Hands Age Moving Young Science Nature Middle Opposites Extremes Prime Drs Middle Ages Haste Lame Geology

Author:William Johnson Sollas

“Failure is not the opposite to success, it's a stepping stone to success. If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are not going to take risks, we are not going to speak out, we are going to try to blend in.”

Ifs Trying Speak Goal Risk Stones Opposites Primaries Approved Speaks Out Stepping Stones

Author:Arianna Huffington

“If you are training properly, you should progress steadily. This doesn't necessarily mean a personal best every time you race ... Each training session should be like putting money in the bank. If your training works, you continue to deposit into your 'strength' account ... Too much training has the opposite effect. Rather than build, it tears down. Your body will tell when you have begun to tip the balance. Just be sure to listen to it.”

Ifs Inspirational Should Mean Body Race Too Much Progress Effects Tears Balance Training Opposites Accounts Your Body Session Deposits Personal Best

Author:Grete Waitz

“Repel the thought, for if you don't, it becomes an idea. So repel the idea, for if you don't it will become a desire. So fight against that(desire), for if you don't, it will become a determination and a passion. And if you don't repel that, it will become an action. And if you don't replace it with its opposite, it will become a constant habit. So at that point, it will be difficult for you to change it.”

Ifs Ideas Wisdom Action Desire Fighting Passion Difficult Habit Determination Opposites Constant Islamic Islamic Wisdom

Author:Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

“If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.”

Ifs Said Wisdom Would Be Faces Certain Term Honesty Fields Thousand Equal Ethics Hundred Opposites Infinite Contrary Liars Falsehood Honest Truth

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Everybody in hip-hop discriminates against gay people. Matter of fact, the exact opposite word of 'hip-hop,' I think, is 'gay.' Like yo, you play a record and if it's wack, 'That's gay, dog!' And I wanna just come on TV and just tell my rappers, just tell my friends, 'Yo, stop it, fam.'”

People Ifs Thinking Matter Play Facts Records Dog Tvs Gay My Friends Opposites Hip Hop Hips Hops Rapper Matter Of Fact Gay People Marriage Equality

Author:Kanye West

“If the maintenance of public credit, then, be truly important, the next enquiry which suggests itself is, by what means it is to be effected? The ready answer to which question is, by good faith, by a punctual performance of contracts. States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.”

Source: The Political Economy of the American Revolution

“Among the authorities it is generally agreed that the Earth is at rest in the middle of the universe, and they regard it as inconceivable and even ridiculous to hold the opposite opinion. However, if we consider it more closely the question will be seen to be still unsettled, and so decidedly not to be despised. For every apparent change in respect of position is due to motion of the object observed, or of the observer, or indeed to an unequal change of both.”

Ifs Stills Earth Science Universe Opinion Middle Position Objects Authority Opposites Regard Dues Ridiculous Observers Despised

Book:On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

Source: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

“I find that I end up liking songs if I really have an idea of something I wat to write about-some problem in my life or something I want to work through; if I don't have something like that at the root of the song, then I think I end up not caring about it as much. I gravitate towards some kind of concept or idea or situation that I want to write about. Very often I have to write, rewrite and come at it from an opposite angle...and I end up writing the opposite song that I thought I was going to write.”

Ifs Thinking Want Writing Kind Ideas Ends Problem Song Situation Concepts Roots Opposites Caring Songwriting Angle Not Caring

Author:Rivers Cuomo

“The essence of peace is to merge two opposites. Therefore your notions should not scare you if you see another, who absolutely opposes you, and you presume that there is no chance for peace between you two. On the same token when you see two individuals who are exactly two opposites, never say it would be impossible for them to reconcile. On the contrary, and this is the perfection of peace to make it between two opposites.”

Ifs Should Two Would Be Individual Peace Chance Impossible Perfection Essence Opposites Notion Contrary Scare Reconcile Tokens Two Opposites

Author:Nachman of Breslov

“Do I start with the lyrics? No. Quite honestly, it's the opposite. I generally get the melody first - I kinda fiddle around on the guitar and work out a melody. The lyrics are there to flesh out the tone of the music. I've tried before to do things the other way around, but it never seems to work. Obviously, I spend a lot of time on my lyrics, I take them very seriously, but they're kinda secondary. Well, equal, maybe. I think sometimes that if you write a poem, it should remain as just a poem, just... words.”

Ifs Thinking Way Should Writing Firsts Wells Sometimes Seems Equal Opposites Guitar Work Out Flesh Honestly Tone Melody Songwriting Fiddle

Author:Iron & Wine

“As soon as you tell me to do one thing, I do the opposite. As soon as someone tells me not to get any more tattoos, I have this intense fire burning inside me to cover myself with them. I don't care if it's self-destructive. I just have that need to rebel.”

Ifs Needs Self Care Fire One Thing Opposites Don't Care Intense Burning I Don't Care Destructive Rebel Tattoo Self Destructive Fire Burning Burning Inside

Author:Megan Fox

“I kinda have the opposite of ADD. I have a hyper-focused disorder, where if there's a given task in front of me I really concentrate on that.”

Ifs Given Fronts Tasks Opposites Add Focused Disorder Hyper

Author:Jared Leto

“The New York Times' was enigmatic: 'Some unimaginable gravitational force is pulling our entire galaxy in the opposite direction.' End of article. If you stop and think about that, we are recreating ourselves.”

Ifs Thinking Ends Force New York Opposites Articles Pulling Galaxy New York Times Unimaginable Enigmatic

Author:Dwight Schultz

“If there is one thing I will never have, it is an eating disorder. I won't have girls - even if it is just one or two who care - thinking that. Because it is a serious sickness, not something to plaster on the cover of a magazine. And I am the opposite. I want girls to love themselves. I want them to feel good about who they areThe thing is, I'm lucky because I was loved. But I have seen so many young women who can't feel good about themselves because they just don't have that love.”

Ifs Thinking Want Feels Two Care Young Girl One Thing Serious Lucky Eating Opposites Feel Good Magazines Just One Sickness Disorder Young Women Who Cares Eating Disorder Plasters I Want A Girl

Author:Kate Hudson

“There is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite.”

Ifs Way Might Bits Opposites One Way Bounce

Author:Joseph Fiennes

“When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.”

Ifs Moving Sides Subjects Awareness Opposites Self Awareness Core Circles

Book:Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

Source: Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

“Listen, the environmental movement is not about protecting the fishes and the birds so much as recognizing that nature is the infrastructure of our communities ... If you're saying the values that drive the environmental movement are uncool and antithetical to America, then I would argue just the opposite. If you think being patriotic is not cool, I'd say that's not true either. I'd say the most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.”

“I've been accused of being cold, snobbish, distant. Those who know me well know that I’m nothing of the sort. If anything, the opposite is true. But is it too much to ask to want to protect your private life, your inner feelings? Lots of things touch me and I don’t want to be indiscreet.”

Ifs Knows Want Wells Feelings Asks Too Much Cold Protect Opposites Know Me Accused Private Life Touch Me Inner Feelings Snobbish

Author:Grace Kelly

“The script will point you in certain directions and I go the opposite if I can. I try do do one thing and tell a different story with my eyes. I believe what's more interesting is always what's not being said.”

Ifs Trying Believe Said I Can Different Stories Eye Certain I Believe Interesting One Thing Opposites Scripts

Author:Robert Carlyle

“I dont mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if Im in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want.”

Ifs Want Mind I Can Hands Asks Attention Middle Draws Opposites Come Up Ask Me Restaurants Shakes Jerk

Author:Macaulay Culkin

“Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.”

Ifs Knows Made Earth Moving Heaven Middle Century Opposites Regard Remains Insane Conception Consensus Assertion

Book:On the revolutions

Source: On the revolutions

“I'm like the opposite of one of those comedians who's funny on stage and depressed behind closed doors . On record, I can get pretty dark, but in real life I'm very carefree. But when I'm happy, I ain't writing songs, I'm out having a laugh, being in love. I wouldn't have the time. If I ever get married, it'll be 'Darling, I need a divorce, it's been three years, I've got a record to write!'”

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