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“The Mapuche are our indigenous people from the south, the Patagonia. They are a vey wise and luminous ancient cavitation, which is completely opposite to where Nazism was headed. In the novel [Wakolda], the theme of racial purity and the Nazi obsession with it was much more developed.”

People Novel Wise Opposites South Ancient Obsession Purity Theme Nazi Indigenous Luminous Nazism Indigenous People Patagonia

Author:Lucia Puenzo

“Denial is really death. People think that when you're connected with other people it's more painful. The opposite is true. When you're connected to the river you have despair, but you also have joy, and there's a flow in the river.”

People Thinking Joy Despair Flow Rivers Opposites Painful Connected Denial

Author:Eve Ensler

“Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite.”

People Comfortable Opposites Familiar

Author:Marina Abramovic

“I tell people this over and over again: don't attach your faith to people. People will come and go. People will disappoint you. People will divulge dark secrets. People will turn out to be the opposite of what you thought. Allah is perfect. His Messenger (peace be upon him) is a perfect example, and the religion is a perfect methodology. Attach yourself to the principles instead of the people. That way no Shaykh going wild or role model going rogue will be able to shake your faith.”

“People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.”

People Long Together House Hours Rooms Half Opposites

Book:Persuasion. Northanger Abbey (Two Novels)

Source: Persuasion. Northanger Abbey (Two Novels)

“The mistake many people make when they go to a bespoke tailor is they often think they need to do something special - either an interesting design feature, or a particularly interesting or unique-looking cloth. I say do the opposite. Stick to something really simple, because this will be a suit that you will really want to wear, so start with something very straightforward and you will get an enormous amount of joy wearing it.”

People Thinking Want Needs Joy Simple Interesting Mistake Special Design Amount Unique Opposites Sticks Enormous Suits Features Straightforward Something Special Tailors

Author:Patrick Grant

“People judge too much by results. I'm just the opposite. I care about more than results. I'd rather make a good pitch and give up a bloop single than make a bad pitch and get an out.”

People Giving Care Results Too Much Judging Giving Up Opposites I Care

Author:Greg Maddux

“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

“At a certain meeting two and a half people were converted to Christ. A friend asked if he meant, two adults and a child. The facts were just the opposite two children and an adult. When a child is led to Christ, a whole life is saved!”

People Ifs Children Two Whole Facts Life Is Certain Christ Half Adults Opposites Meetings Saved Whole Life

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“You go to a restaurant with a friend for lunch and the next table, two people are sitting opposite each other. They don't talk! All they do is look at the screens of their cell phones and show it to the person that they're with. And when people do that to me, they want me to look at pictures on their cell phone? I can't even look at little things like that. I think it is all crazy.”

People Thinking Want Looks Littles Persons I Can Two Shows Next Crazy Sitting Opposites Tables Phones Screens Cells Restaurants Little Things Lunch Want Me Cell Phone

Author:Brigid Berlin

“Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course.”

People Giving Should May Mean Real Values Courses Lost Growth Steps Security Safe Demand Giving Up Opposites Patterns Surrender Familiar Temporary New Words

Author:Gail Sheehy

“Remember that hate is not the opposite of love as people think. Hate is love standing upside down; it is not the opposite of love. The real opposite of love is fear. In love one expands, in fear one shrinks. In fear one becomes closed, in love one opens. In fear one doubts, in love one trusts. In fear one is left lonely. In love one disappears; hence there is no question of loneliness at all. Love is when you have known your inner sky. There is no higher religion than love”

People Thinking Real Remember Hate Left Love Is Known Doubt Sky Loneliness Higher Standing Lonely Opposites Disappear Shrinks Upside Down

Author:Rajneesh

“Some think that it is cruel or brutal to remove the bottom 10 percent of our people. It isn't. It's just the opposite. What I think is brutal and "false kindness" is keeping people around who aren't going to grow and prosper. There's no cruelty like waiting and telling people late into their careers that they don't belong - just when the options are limited and they're putting their children through college or paying off big mortgages.”

People Thinking Children Bigs Grows Waiting Careers Kindness College Late Percent Opposites Bottom Cruelty Remove Brutal Mortgage

Author:Jack Welch

“It's no understatement that the church has done a poor job in teaching our young people that reason and faith are not opposites, and that atheists are far from being on the side of reason. You can find on our website a chart which I use to demonstrate the various worldviews work out, and which one, Christianity, is rational. Many kids, however, who grow up huddled in a Christian environment find themselves in the university setting completely unequipped to defend the rationality of the Christian faith against the secular humanist worldview so prevalent on college campuses.”

“I guess what happens to a lot of people as they get older is that they get more conservative, but with me, the opposite is the case.”

People Happens Cases Opposites Conservative

Author:Simon Critchley

“My accomplishments do not live up to my tennis game. Most people have to work really hard and win some big matches, and then they get money and popularity. For me it has been the reverse of everybody else. The exact opposite.”

People Has Beens Hard Bigs Games Winning Opposites Accomplishment Tennis Popularity Reverse Get Money Tennis Game

Author:Andre Agassi

“Did you ever notice that people who are good with a computer don't use it for much of anything except being good with a computer? They know all about information technology, but they don't have much interest in the information. I'm the opposite.”

People Knows Use Interest Technology Information Computer Opposites Be Good Information Technology

Author:Andy Rooney

“I understand the opposite side of the camera. I have a profound respect for that. I have worked with people who, when you hit that mark, are doing 50 percent of your work for you. So, you know, it's a balance. When you walk into a mark and you're lit a certain way or something's happening so often you don't know what's behind you... And that's what's so strange about being a movie actor.”

People Knows Way Certain Actors Sides Walks Behinds Strange Balance Happenings Percent Opposites Mark Cameras Profound Lit Behind You Movie Actors

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all... and I think it's true in the opposite direction, too.”

People Thinking World Opposites Ancient Our World Relative Singularity

Author:William Deresiewicz

“With a congressional mandate to run the deficit up as high as need be, there is no reason to raise taxes now and risk aggravating the depression. Instead, Obama will follow the opposite of the Reagan strategy. Reagan cut taxes and increased the deficit so that liberals could not increase spending. Obama will raise spending and increase the deficit so that conservatives cannot cut taxes. And, when the economy is restored, he will raise taxes with impunity, since the only people who will have to pay them would be rich Republicans.”

People Needs Reason Would Be Running Pay Economy Rich Cutting Risk Republican Taxes Opposites Increase Raises Strategy Spending No Reason Deficit Mandates Impunity Aggravating

Author:Dick Morris

“Socialist countries throughout the world love to lower retirement ages to make people prematurely dependent on the government. But we should move in the opposite direction. In the long run, indexing retirement to life expectancy will yield enormous revenues to the system, far more than a one-shot increase in the age in the current legislative cycle.”

“Children who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to dissociate, some of them are able to dissociate as a way of surviving and inventing someone to whom this doesn't happen. And so therefore, they invent within themselves different personalities who have life histories of their own. Many people invent an opposite gender personality as well.”

People Way Wells Children Long Has Beens Different Happens Able Term Personality Opposites Gender Long Term Surviving Inventing Very Sad

Author:Gloria Steinem

“People will still make great art, but I think it's good to assume you will always be a failure. People were believing the opposite.”

People Thinking Believe Art Stills Opposites Assuming Great Art

Author:Wade Guyton

“I was just very into things that were the opposite of what other people liked. I didn't want to listen to music that I could find at a friend's house. My identity was really forged around that, and you know, eventually that kind of identity gets dismantled and fed to the vultures. But I was somehow on my own mission.”

People Knows Want Kind House My Own Identity Opposites Missions Feds Listening To Music Forged Vulture

Author:Ariel Pink

“People ask me if I believe in things: in God, in astrology, and I say, absolutely! I believe in everything! And I believe in its opposite. Like the positive and negative volts on a battery, you need both for power.”

People Ifs Needs Believe Asks I Believe Negative Opposites I Believe In Ask Me Astrology Batteries Volt

Author:John Patrick Shanley

“Most people willingly deceive themselves with a doubly false faith; they believe in eternal memory (of men, things, deeds, peoples) and in rectification (of deeds, errors, sins, injustice). Both are sham. The truth lies at the opposite end of the scale: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be rectified. All rectification (both vengeance and forgiveness) will be taken over by oblivion.”

People Men Believe Ends Lying Memories Sin Taken Eternal Opposites Errors Injustice Forgotten Deeds Scales Deceiving Vengeance Oblivion Rectification

Author:Milan Kundera

“It's the opposite on a sitcom. People crave the character to not learn from their mistakes. They want to just see the situation, and then see how that character is going to react to that particular chaotic catastrophe. That's just my take on it, anyway. I don't really get too hung up on what the future of the show is.”

People Want Character Shows Mistake Situation Particular Opposites Hung Catastrophe Crave Chaotic Sitcom

Author:Ty Burrell

“People always say the abused abuse and it is not true. I am totally the opposite.”

People Opposites Abuse

Author:Michael Jackson

“What's clarity like? Try to remember that funny feeling inside your head when you had math problems too difficult to solve: the faint buzzing noise in your ears, a heaviness on both sides of your skull, and the sensation that your brain is twitching inside your cranium like a fish on the beach. This is the opposite sensation of clarity. Yet for many people of my era, as they aged, this sensation became the dominant sensation of their lives. It was as though day-to-day twentieth century living had become an unsolvable algebraic equation.”

“Too many people believe that one big, public success will solve their self-confidence problems forever. That only happens in the movies. In real life, the opposite strategy is what works. Call it the small victo-ries approach. In time you will discover that all failing really does teach you something you needed to know- so you can regroup and stretch again, with ever more...nerve.”

People Knows Believe Doe Real Self Problem Bigs Happens Teach Forever Failing Needed Approach Opposites Strategy Solve Self Confidence Real Life Nerves

Author:Jack Welch

“No, I don't think you're paranoid. I think you're the opposite of paranoid. I think you walk around with the insane delusion that people like you.”

People Thinking Walks Like You Opposites Insane Delusion Paranoid

Author:Woody Allen

“It's frustrating always being compared to Britney because we are two very different artists... We both dance and sing but people have not yet had enough time to realise that there is a huge difference between us. If she wants to go and do something, I'll want to do the opposite.”

People Ifs Want Two Different Enough Artist Differences Huge Opposites Realising Frustrating Enough Time Had Enough

Author:Christina Aguilera

“I see two opposite tendencies in Turkish society: people feel demoralized, they lose the interest in politics and retreat to their private lives; or they become very angry and even more politicized, and radicalized. Both trends are troublesome.”

People Feels Two Interest Loses Opposites Angry Tendencies Trends Retreat Private Life Troublesome Turkish Demoralized Two Opposites Interest In Politics

Author:Elif Safak

“The writing is therapeutic for me, it's an introverted process, I'm really inside my head. It's a really obsessive process. The live show, though, is the opposite. It's an extroverted process. It pushes me to connect with people, and so it pulls me out of my head and just pulls me out of myself.”

People Writing Shows Process Opposites Obsessive Therapeutic Introverted

Author:Fernando Torres

“What people really want is not to make something funny, but to make something amusing - which, in many ways, is the opposite of funny. To amuse someone is to eliminate discomfort and awkwardness, kind of like a massage for the brain, while to be funny is to point out awkwardness and discomfort. Everyone thinks they want funny, but they really want amusement.”

People Thinking Way Want Kind Brain Opposites Amusement Discomfort Amusing Massage Awkwardness

Author:Christian Finnegan

“I believe most people are born with the potential to have same-sex and opposite-sex attractions. However, homophobia creates an internal split, locking up a natural part of a person's psyche, sometimes to the point where the person is unaware that part exists.”

People Believe Persons Sometimes I Believe Sex Born Natural Opposites Attraction Internals Splits Homophobia

Author:Charlotte Sophia Kasl

“I think you kind of hope for people gush over movies, but I think the opposite is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash.”

People Thinking Kind Sometimes Next Forget Talking Opposites Angry Next Day Trash Popcorn

Author:Gabriel Mann

“People let their frustrations out on me. I love Kanye West. They say the opposite of that. But I'm not going to say that. I'm only going to say what I'm want to put into the universe.”

People Want Universe Opposites West Frustration

Author:Kanye West

“The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.”

People Hands Government Choices Principles Democracy Fate Depends Authority Tradition Opposites Absolutes Restraint Sovereignty Absolute Power Legality

Author:Lord Acton

“It is a perverse faith, in that it reveres the "environment" ahead of people who live in it. It is a most ascetic superstition, in that it demands we live less happily and less freely and with less prosperity - the opposite of, say, the Protestant work ethic that helped build Ontario.”

People Environment Demand Ethics Opposites Prosperity Superstitions Work Ethic Protestants Ontario Protestant Work Ethic

Author:Ezra Levant

“I think the most important challenge that remains is this mentality in Washington that sanctions have been an asset, and some people want to find even an excuse to keep them or an excuse to reintroduce them. I don't know whether they've looked at the record of how sanctions actually produce exactly the opposite of what they wanted to produce.”

People Thinking Knows Want Has Beens Important Wanted Challenges Records Produce Opposites Remains Excuse Assets Mentality Sanctions

Author:Mohammad Javad Zarif

“People have this idea of me being some kind of monster, and that's the complete opposite of who I am.”

People Kind Ideas Opposites Monsters Who I Am Complete Opposites

Author:PJ Harvey

“I was lucky in that I had a mother that was full of this colloquial wisdom and she used to say to me 'You know, failure is not the opposite of success, it's the stepping stone to success. There is nobody who has not failed along the way.' So I think its very important for young women, especially as they are starting in life, to recognize that because otherwise, they only see people's success. So, when I speak, I speak of my failures.”

People Thinking Knows Way Important Young Used Mother Speak Lucky Stones Opposites Starting Young Women Stepping Stones

Author:Arianna Huffington

“Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I'm the opposite; I'd rather have people make me cry with the truth than try to make me smile.”

People Trying Lying Cry Opposites Make Me Smile

Author:Joyce Giraud

“I am also going to go with somebody who is the opposite of Donald Trump and her name is Johari Osayi Idusuyi. I think she represented millions and millions of Americans who look at the message that Donald Trump is using his fame and the power he has accumulated to,you know, to send out into the world and it`s horrified. And I think her quiet resistance represented so many people because I`ll tell you, people of color have been trying to warn this country about Donald Trump for a really long time and I think she reminded us.”

People Thinking Knows World Trying Looks Long Has Beens Country Names Millions Color Trump Fame Quiet Messages Long Time Opposites Resistance Really Long

Author:Joy-Ann Reid

“I don't like the fact that people are supposed to think horror movies have a way things should go. I always try to do the exact opposite of what people expect and want.”

People Thinking Way Want Should Trying Facts Horror Opposites

Author:Rob Zombie

“Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back.”

People Trying Different Opposites Classic Different Things Digital Coming Back Retro

Author:Victoria Chang

“In film, you have to present everything on the screen so it's the opposite of what I usually do with storytelling. It forced me to think about how people walk, where they sit at that moment. With Princess of Nebraska, it was just fun to watch because the movie was so far from the story. It was very much a different story.”

People Thinking Different Moments Stories Film Fun Walks Watches Opposites Screens Storytelling That Moment Princess Nebraska

Author:Yiyun Li

“We have become this very fear-based culture, especially post-9/11. Fear is the opposite of love, in my opinion. I think there would be more love in the world. I'm not talking about rainbows and unicorns and '70s Coca-Cola commercials. I'm talking about gritty, dangerous, wild-eyed love. Radical acceptance of people. Belonging. A good, goofy kind of love.”

“I've always been my own person. I don't do what people want me to do. Like, if you want me to do that, I'm going to do the complete opposite.”

People Ifs Want Persons My Own Opposites Want Me You Want Me If You Want Me Complete Opposites

Author:Fetty Wap

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