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“We are losing the war against cancer... I would like to offer for your consideration the following legislative proposals on the following topics: prohibition of the authorisation of new carcinogenic products; reduction of toxics in use; right-to-know...”

Knows War Use Law Products Losing Cancer Reverse Proposal Reduction Prohibition Epidemics New Car Toxins

Author:Samuel Epstein

“Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.”

Book Hard Enough Might Fighting Sports Known Impression Fighter Prize Killers Reverse

Author:Gene Tunney

“If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty.”

Ifs World Years Looks Has Beens Lasts Poverty Happened Thirds Crisis Debt Improvement Reverse Third World Debt Crisis

Author:David Korten

“Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire for sympathetic support, you describe your life in negative terms you will find that this will reinforce your mind's negative emotions and make you unhappy and even more susceptible to feeling unhappy in the future. By simply doing the reverse and focusing on why you are lucky and grateful things are not worse, you will strengthen and increase your mind's positive emotions and make yourself happy and even more likely to feel happy in the future.”

“They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.”

Men Way Mind Firsts Two Waiting Streets Argument Opposites Driving Reverse Incomprehension Two Minds Narrow Streets

Book:Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)

Source: Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)

“I figured I’d probably write 50 scripts in my life. Out of those 50, I figured maybe five would be produced, and that maybe one or two would be successful. So I always kind of expected I’d write at least one successful film in my life. [...] The way it all came together was kind of like Murphy's law in reverse—I don’t expect that kind of experience again any time soon.”

Way Writing Kind Two Would Be Together Film Law Successful Five Scripts Expected Being Successful Reverse Murphy

Author:Michael Arndt

“Reverse petting zoo. You pet the animals, and they pet you back.”

Animal Pet Reverse Zoos Bvb Black Veil Brides

Author:Andy Biersack

“I never had a low self-esteem that would make me gay. At one point, though, the reverse happened. Being homosexual led me to have a loss of self-esteem when I first became aware of society's attitudes about homosexuality.”

Firsts Self Loss Attitude Happened Self Esteem Gay Lows Esteem Reverse Homosexuality Homosexual Low Self Esteem

Author:Aaron Fricke

“A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.”

Men Order Watches Virtue Wise Fool Faults Reverse

Book:Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success

Source: Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success

“It is now time to reverse the trend we have seen developing over the years, that of beauty at all costs and health will take care of itself.”

Years Care Cost Take Care Developing Trends Healthcare Reverse

Author:Bill Munson

“However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process.”

Knows Children Process Parent Objects Easier Reverse Fragments Small Child Converting

Author:Andrew S. Tanenbaum

“The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.”

Firsts Two Problem Relationship Security Guarantees Dependent Reverse Disarmament

Author:Ludwig Quidde

“We must reverse this psychology (of needing guns for home defense). WE can do it by passing a law that says anyone found in possession a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail-period!”

Home Law Found Can Do Psychology Periods Gun Possession Defense Passing Passings Jail Officers Reverse Handguns

Author:Carl T. Rowan

“She wondered then if she had ever been on the right track. She had been reticent all her life, because it turned out that her opinions were different from what others expected. 'That proves either that I am an exceptional idiot, or the reverse.”

Ifs Different Opinion Prove Track Expected Idiot Reverse Exceptional Right Track

Author:Nuruddin Farah

“Reverse psychology is an awesome tool, I don't know if you guys know about it, but basically you can make someone think the opposite of what you believe, and that tricks them into doing something stupid. Works like a charm.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Believe Guy Psychology Stupid Tools Opposites Tricks Charm Reverse Christmas Party Reverse Psychology

Author:Steve Carell

“If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!”

Ifs Artist Stars Audience Successful Suspects Compliment Reverse

Author:Carlisle Floyd

“It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse.”

Moments Pain Happened Present Moment Reverse Avoiding

Book:Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

Source: Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

“Reverse Darwinism: survival of the most idiotic.”

Survival Reverse Darwinism Idiotic

Author:Alan Grant

“India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.”

People Life Littles Changed India West Possession Reverse Very Happy Outlook Outlook On Life

Author:Gary Wright

“It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse.”

Way Reverse

Book:the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer

Source: the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer

“The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.”

Doe Heaven Mass Crowds Reverse Totality Always Wrong

Author:Charles Bukowski

“One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.”

Past Life Is Reverse Nevertheless Never Change

Author:Merle Shain

“Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation.”

Enough Today Social Powerful Environment Produce Planets Mechanism Reverse Degradation

Author:Paul Hawken

“Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.”

Poet Critics Very Good Reverse

Author:William Shenstone

“To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that's quite a task”

Reality Tasks Sake Reverse Inner Life

Book:Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

“Every time we do something #‎ GOOD . We #‎ RISE a little bit in our OWN eyes and the #‎ REVERSE is just as #‎ TRUE .”

Littles Eye Bits Little Bit Reverse

Author:Shiv Khera

“Trust reverses the detours of adversity into highways of destiny.”

Destiny Adversity Reverse Highways Detours

Author:Beth Moore

“A "dis-ease" is simply a name to the respective symptom (or collection of symptoms) that occurs when acids damage the cells of the body (or set in motion an inflammatory response), and a symptom is experienced. Names of "dis-eases" may seem complex but please understand that they are simply: location, location, location! One must alkalize the body to reverse the inflammation and return balance to the body.”

May Body Seems Names Inspiring Return Balance Please Response Complexes Cells Ease Damage Collections Reverse Location Symptoms Acid

Author:Robert Morse

“The responsibility for maintaining the composition of the blood in respect to other constituents devolves largely upon the kidneys. It is no exaggeration to say that the composition of the blood is determined not by what the mouth ingests but by what the kidneys keep; they are the master chemists of our internal environment, which, so to speak, they synthesize in reverse.”

Speak Responsibility Environment Blood Masters Mouths Determined Internals Reverse Composition Maintaining Respecting Others Exaggeration Constituents Chemist Kidneys

Author:Homer Smith

“During the late war I had an infallible rule for deciding what Great Britain would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what they ought to do, and to take the reverse of that as what they would assuredly do, and I can say with truth that I was never deceived.”

I Can War Ought Late Occasions Britain Reverse Deceived Infallible Great Britain Every Occasion

Book:The Quotable Jefferson

Source: The Quotable Jefferson

“Time is an experience in consciousness. It is metabolized as our biological clock. Changing our experience of time can reverse aging.”

Time Consciousness Aging Clock Reverse Biological Clock

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.”

Poetry Instinct Appeals Poetry Is Primitive Reverse Great Poet Great Poetry

Book:The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Poetry 1903-1920, prose, and unpublished writings

Source: The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Poetry 1903-1920, prose, and unpublished writings

“Creative power has to filter through our beliefs, attitudes, emotions, and habits. The more negative and constricted our beliefs and patterns are, the more they block the creative energy. Most people hope that by ignoring negativity, it will go away, but the reverse is actually true. Through recognizing, acknowledging, and experiencing it, the blocked energy can be released. You are then free to replace it with positive beliefs and attitudes.”

Source: Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations

“Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves an essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures to protect the people under its care, such a proceeding might have been thought both unnecessary and unjustifiable: But here it is quite the Reverse.”

People Has Beens Government Might Care Liberty Roles Protect Essentials Assuming Reverse Unnecessary Justified Might Have Been Proceeding

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.”

Ifs Feels Character Pain Pleasure Levels Virtue Despair Hearing Neighbor Distinction Reverse Miscellaneous Good Character

Book:The works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of essays, humorous, moral, and literary: with his life, written by himself

Source: The works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of essays, humorous, moral, and literary: with his life, written by himself

“If they just reverse the division, ban the judges, and then it'll discourage other judges from ever doing this.”

Ifs Motivation Judging Fighter Division Reverse Discouraging Bans

Author:Roy Jones Jr.

“Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.”

Language Ordinary Importance Math Factors Relative Reverse Algebra

Book:Science and Philosophy

Source: Science and Philosophy

“The mind is key. If anything should be considered a god, so to speak, it is the mind, not money. A healthy positive mind is the utmost priority. But if we were to reverse the order of these priorities, what would happen? I find it hard to imagine how a person with great wealth, bad health, no friends, and no peace of mind could feel even slightly happy.”

Source: Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be

“There is no condition so severe that you cannot reverse it by choosing different thoughts.”

Different Conditions Attraction Law Of Attraction Reverse Severe

Book:Ask and it is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

Source: Ask and it is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“If we do not design policies to halt, and then reverse population growth, Nature by default will soon exact a most punishing solution”

Ifs Growth Policy Design Solutions Population Reverse Halt Default Population Growth

Author:Fred Thompson

“Over the next ten years, I predict, the mainstream of the environmental movement will reverse its opinion and activism in four major areas: population growth, urbaninzation, genetically engineered organisms, and nuclear power.”

Years Next Growth Opinion Four Policy Movement Ten Majors Areas Environmental Population Activism Nuclear Mainstream Reverse Organisms Nuclear Power Population Growth Environmental Policy

Author:Stewart Brand

“Reputation is seeming; character is being. Reputation is manufactured; character is grown. Reputation is your photograph; There is a vast difference between character and reputation. Reputation is what men think we are; character is what God knows us to be. Reputation is seeming; character is being. Reputation is the breath of men; character is the inbreathing of the eternal God. One may for a time have a good reputation and a bad character, or the reverse ; but not for long.”

Thinking Knows Men May Long Character Differences Eternal Photography Breaths Photograph Reputation Reverse God Knows Seeming Good Reputation Character And Reputation Bad Character

Author:Robert Stuart MacArthur

“I have scars on my hands from touching certain people...Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me. Other things, too. Charlotte once ran away from me, outside the studio, and I grabbed her dress to stop her, to keep her near me. A yellow cotton dress I loved because it was too long for her. I still have a lemon-yellow mark on the palm of my right hand. Oh God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”

“Your skin is prickly from fatigue and pain and there is a hissing in your ears. Time passes and the pills are taking hold like a glowing white planet coming into view. A reverse eclipse. And you watch with your eyes closed. The white planet is half exposed, it grips your heart in its light and seems to be pulling you forward and now you feel that you are falling. You are awake but dreaming. "The earth is not beautiful but the universe is," you say.”

Feels Heart Dream Light Seems Eye Earth Pain Beautiful Fall Universe White Views Half Watches Planets Skins Ears Awake Exposed Reverse Pulling Pills Fatigue Glowing Eclipse Time Passes Hissing

Author:Patrick deWitt

“If attachment is the conditioning factor, then non-attachment will become the unconditioning factor. If expectation leads you in misery, then non-expectation will lead you into non-misery. If anger creates a hell within you, then compassion will create a heaven. So whatsoever the process of misery, the reverse will be the process of happiness. Unconditioning means you have to understand the whole knotted phenomenon of human consciousness as it is.”

Ifs Humans Mean Whole Heaven Process Consciousness Compassion Hell Expectations Misery Factors Attachment Phenomenon Within You Reverse Conditioning Human Consciousness

Author:Rajneesh

“The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse. . . . The nobler sort of man pays special attention to nine points. He is anxious to see clearly, to hear distinctly, to be kindly in his looks, respectful in his demeanor, conscientious in his speech, earnest in his affairs. When in doubt, he is careful to inquire; when in anger, he thinks of the consequences; when offered an opportunity for gain, he thinks only of his duty.”

“Wish I could spin my world into reverse just to have you back again”

World Wish Reverse Back Again

Author:David Guetta

“What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.”

Done Company Reverse Insurance Companies

Author:Gerry Spence

“Those who think that a woman detained at home by her little family is doing nothing, think the reverse of what is true. Scarcely can the godly mother quit her home for a place of worship; but dream not that she is lost to the work of the church; far from it, she is doing the best possible service for her Lord. Mothers, the godly training of your offspring is your first and most pressing duty.”

Thinking Firsts Littles Home Dream Mother Lost Church Lord Duty Worship Training Quitting Reverse Godly Doing Nothing Offspring Places Of Worship Godly Mothers

Book:Select Works

Source: Select Works

“The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.”

Art Ideas Stories Challenges Moral Ordinary Reactions Reverse Preconceptions

Author:Vincent Cassel

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