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“People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship.”

People Hurt Comfort Worship Ancestor Reverse Ancestry Ancestor Worship

Book:The Woman Warrior: Picador Classic

Source: The Woman Warrior: Picador Classic

“You must pray for yourself constantly. How could it be otherwise? We worship God by believing in Him, trusting Him, and loving Him wholeheartedly - and we can attain to that only through prayer. The sole object of our being here is that we may grow like Him - and we can do that only through prayer. The more we pray for ourselves the more power will our prayers have for any other purpose whatever; so praying for ourselves is the reverse of selfishness - it is truly glorifying God.”

“American radio is the reverse of the Shakespearean stage. In Shakespeare's time the world's greatest dramas were acted with the most primitive technical arrangements; on the American air the world's most primitive writing is performed under perfect technical conditions.”

World Writing Funny America Perfect Air Conditions Stage Drama Humorous Radio Primitive Reverse Arrangements

Author:George Mikes

“The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.”

Should Firsts Science Order Learning Thirds Reverse Arrangements Edifice

Author:Lydia Sigourney

“In time, [a Martian] colony would grow to the point of being self- sustaining. When this stage was reached, humanity would have a precious insurance policy against catastrophe at home. During the next millennium there is a significant chance that civilization on Earth will be destroyed by an asteroid, a killer plague or a global war. A Martian colony could keep the flame of civilization and culture alive until Earth could be reverse-colonized from Mars.”

“As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.”

Children Stories Mother Invention Fairy Reverse Norm Fairy Stories

Author:Tanith Lee

“Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.”

Ifs Years Two Three Money Decades Income Rising Reverse Roof Earning Curves Millionaire

Author:Srully Blotnick

“How glorious, then, is the prospect, the reverse of all the past, which is now opening upon us, and upon the world. Government, we may now expect to see, not only in theory and in books but in actual practice, calculated for the general good, and taking no more upon it than the general good requires, leaving all men the enjoyment of as many of their natural rights as possible, and no more interfering with matters of religion, with men's notions concerning God, and a future state, than with philosophy, or medicine.”

Source: Letters to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France, &c

“It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end, the reverse happened: the fact of being a woman became a symbol of the process of cultural change the country was undergoing.”

Said Ends Country Facts Process Happened Ready Vote Symbols Reverse Being A Woman Not Ready Sexist Chile Cultural Change

Author:Michelle Bachelet

“Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.”

Courses Sides Psychology Heavy Meat Vegetables Plates Reverse Dishes Main Course Reverse Psychology Side Dishes

Author:Bobby Flay

“It has always been the role of government to help solve problems, including and especially health crises. Obesity is a health epidemic across our country, and we have a responsibility as a government and a society to do all we can to promote good nutrition and healthy eating so we can reverse this alarming trend.”

“I always recommend, if you can, to patent or protect whatever your idea is. If you can't, you have to make your best judgment. Sometimes people don't get anywhere because they sit on something, so afraid to reveal it. And yet, in the reverse, sometimes if you expose something too widely, you can risk losing it.”

People Ifs Ideas Sometimes Risk Protect Judgment Losing Reverse Patents

Author:Lori Greiner

“A system such as classical mechanics may be 'scientific' to any degree you like; but those who uphold it dogmatically - believing, perhaps, that it is their business to defend such a successful system against criticism as long as it is not conclusively disproved - are adopting the very reverse of that critical attitude which in my view is the proper one for the scientist.”

Believe May Long Science Views Attitude Successful Degrees Criticism Scientist Critical Reverse Mechanic Scientific Method Adopting

Book:The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Source: The Logic of Scientific Discovery

“I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.”

States Able Process United United States Concerned Corporate Elites Reverse Fundamentalist

Author:Todd Gitlin

“I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.”

Thinking Children Young Three Obvious Teenager Maturity Reverse Thrust Confrontation Having Children

Author:Rachel Johnson