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Author:Mason Cooley

“A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.”

Source: Golden Hours with Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The demand that women "return to femininity" is a demand that the cultural gears shift into reverse, that we back up to a fabled time when everyone was richer, younger, more powerful.”

Powerful Return Demand Reverse Femininity Gears

Book:Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

Source: Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

“The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. Everything that’s really worthwhile in life came to us free; our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends and country. All these priceless possessions are free. But the things that cost us money are actually very cheap and can be replaced at any time. A good man can be completely wiped out and make another fortune. He can do that several times. Even if our home burns down, we can rebuild it. But the things we got for nothing, we can never replace.”

Source: How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds

“I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.”

Life Wells Moving Time Courses Steps Path Moving Forward Reverse Cause And Effect Habitual Life Time New Directions

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.”

“Parents sometimes think of newborns as helpless creatures, but in fact parents' behavior is much more under the infant's control than the reverse. Does he come running when you cry?”

Thinking Doe Sometimes Facts Running Parent Cry Creatures Behavior Reverse Helpless Infant

Author:Sandra Scarr

“In his brilliant new book Pankaj Mishra reverses the long gaze of the West upon the East, showing modern history as it has been felt by the majority of the world's population from Turkey to China. These are the amazing stories of the grandfathers of today's angry Asians. Excellent!”

World Long Has Beens Book Stories Today Felt Modern Angry Majority West Population China East Brilliant Excellent Grandfather Reverse Turkeys New Books Modern History

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as avital social role for men. At stake is nothing less than the success of the American experiment. For unless we reverse the trend of fatherlessness, no other set of accomplishments--not economic growth or prison construction or welfare reform or better schools--will succeed in arresting the decline of child well-being and the spread of male violence. To tolerate the trend of fatherlessness is to accept the inevitability of continued social recession.”

“You can reverse your biological age by changing your perceptions.”

Age Perception Reverse

Book:Grow Younger, Live Longer: Ten steps to reverse ageing

Source: Grow Younger, Live Longer: Ten steps to reverse ageing

“The restful alertness response reverses the aging process.”

Process Aging Response Reverse Alertness Restful Aging Process

Author:Deepak Chopra

“The body and mind are one. When the intimate relationship between mind and body is disrupted, aging and entropy accelerate. Restoring mind/body integration brings about renewal. Through conscious breathing and movement techniques, you can renew the body/mind and reverse the aging process.”

“Nutritional complements, wisely used, can prevent many age-related illnesses and dramatically reverse your biological age.”

Age Used Illness Related Reverse Complement

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Harmonising your biological rhythms with the rhythms of nature minimises entropy and reverses aging.”

Aging Rhythm Reverse Entropy

Author:Deepak Chopra

“It is indeed one of the principal drawbacks of every kind of interventionism that it is so difficult to reverse the process.”

Kind Process Difficult Reverse Principal Drawbacks Interventionism

Book:Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

“As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner; and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug.”

People Men Enough Bits Saint Sinner Reverse Boast Pretension Humbug

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The most rapid way to change a root thought, or sponsoring idea, is to reverse the thought-word-deed process. Do the deed that you want to have the new thought about. Then say the words that you want to have your new thought about. Do this often enough and you'll train the mind to think a new way.”

Thinking Way Want Inspirational Mind Ideas Enough Process Religious Roots Train Deeds New Ways Reverse Rapids New Thought Conversations With God

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“In response to the escalating violence in Iraq, President Bush is delaying the return home of 25,000 troops and will actually add reinforcements to the south. Then in a symbolic gesture he pulled down the mission accomplished banner, put on a flight suit, walked backwards to a jet fighter and flew it in reverse off an aircraft carrier.”

“Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions.”

Believe Doe Body I Believe I Believe In Reverse Affliction Sanctify

Book:Sermons on the Book of Revelation

Source: Sermons on the Book of Revelation

“In my art and life, I really strive to reverse the old adage that what you see is what you get. If I can be Coyote and practice my sneak-up, I can engage the viewers from a distance with one image and lure them in for exposure to another layer, which changes the initial view into quite a different reality. After all, that is what ethnic culture is all about - or even an ongoing relationship. What you see on the surface is never the same again one you begin to plumb the depths.”

“And meteorologists have nothing to tell people in Philo, who know perfectly well that the real story is that to the west, between us and the Rockies, there is basically nothing tall, and that weird zephyrs and stirs joined breezes and gusts and thermals and downdrafts and whatever out over Nebraska and Kansas and moved like streams into rivers and jets at and military fronts that gathered like avalanches and roared in reverse down pioneer oxtrails, toward our own personal unsheltered asses.”

People Knows Wells Real Stories Military Fronts Rivers Moved West Ass Streams Tall Reverse Breeze Jet Pioneers Kansas Nebraska Avalanches Real Story Zephyr Meteorologists

Author:David Foster Wallace

“You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.”

Enough Bigs Community Mistake Achieve Blame Endure Worthy Reverse Undertakings

Book:The Law of Success

Source: The Law of Success

“Money follows mission, not the reverse. This is a shorthand way of saying that the stronger the congregation's relational characteristics, the easier it is to raise money. The stronger the congregation's mission, visitation, groupings, leadership, and decision making, the stronger the giving.”

Way Giving Decision Easier Stronger Raises Missions Characteristics Decision Making Reverse Congregation Shorthand Visitation

Author:Kennon Callahan

“If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you’re in a good place and you’re in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse.”

Ifs Numbers Red Wine France Reverse Alarms Good Place Food Love Red Wine

Author:Salma Hayek

“To put it bluntly, we now need to reverse course. We need more highly skilled small farmers in more places all across America - not as a matter of nostalgia for the agrarian past but as a matter of national security. For nations that lose the ability to substantially feed themselves will find themselves as gravely compromised in their international dealings as nations that depend on foreign sources of oil presently do. But while there are alternatives to oil, there are no alternatives to food.”

“Before it's too late, we need to make courageous choices that will recreate a strong alliance between man and Earth. We need a decisive 'yes' to care for creation and a strong commitment to reverse those trends that risk making the situation of decay irreversible.”

“The inevitability of abortion. But I refuse to accept the amoral consequences that are even far worse than that, which is harvesting them because we decided that as an adult society, we can use children to make our lives better, if you seek the reverse.”

Ifs Children Use Accepting Our Lives Adults Consequence Decided Refuse Abortion Reverse Inevitability

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“I've been a fan of movies longer than anything else. One thing I learned a long time ago is that you can't translate a book literally to the screen. It won't work because it's a different medium. And it would be the same in reverse.”

Long Book Different Would Be One Thing Fans Long Time Screens Mediums Translate Reverse Long Time Ago

Author:Andrew Stanton

“Muhammad was a narcissist and Muslims, by having entered into his bubble universe have become narcissists by extension. More precisely, they are reverse narcissists. A commonly used term for reverse narcissist is co-dependent.”

Used Universe Term Dependent Bubbles Reverse Extensions Muhammad Narcissist

Author:Ali Sina

“One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.”

Writing Done Happens Authority Highest Reverse Solemn History Of Science Solemnity Assembling

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Khaddar is an attempt to revise and reverse the process and establish a better relationship between the cities and villages.”

Process Cities Village Reverse

Book:Young India, 1927-1928

Source: Young India, 1927-1928

“Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.”

Suffering Rights Arms Method Resistance Passive Reverse Passive Resistance

Book:Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings

Source: Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings

“With money come the tests. My bankruptcy, which at the time I thought was a disaster, turned out to be a major blessing. It taught me so much! Money is not only an isolator, but it's a magnet, too. It draws all kinds of people to you - you may not want them but it draws them to you anyway. The reverse of that, a bankruptcy, sends everybody away.”

People Want Kind May Taught Blessing Majors Draws Tests Disaster All Kinds Reverse Magnet Bankruptcy

Author:Leslie Parrish

“In truth I never really liked any of the heavy drugs, because normally my energy is up when I'm performing, and that's about it. Cocaine is nothing new. It's the pressure, I think. People use it to relieve that, and for me it is about getting numb and forgetting. I have a reverse metabolic reaction to the stuff.”

People Thinking Use Energy Stuff Forget Drug Pressure Heavy Reactions Performing Reverse Cocaine Numb Nothing New

Author:Robin Williams

“I think one of my favorite things about making low budget movies is that when you get into expensive moviemaking territory, it's almost impossible not to reverse engineer the movies. It's irresponsible not to think about the result and the financial result. But when you make low budget movies, you can put that out of your head.”

Thinking Results Impossible Lows Financial My Favorite Budgets Expensive Territory Engineers Reverse Irresponsible Favorites Things Financial Results

Author:M. Night Shyamalan

“Tolkien seems to me reactionary, conservative, fearful of a modern world. Fearful of anything that isn't sanctioned by the passage of long eons of time. I think what I'm doing in His Dark Materials is politically the reverse of that.”

Thinking World Long Seems Dark Modern Materials Conservative Passages Fearful Reverse Modern World Reactionaries His Dark Materials

Author:Philip Pullman

“I was in a pharmacy and I saw the warnings on the backs of poisonous substances, and I thought, "Well, that's what I can do." So I wrote a list of ingredients in the book, and warnings that they shouldn't consume those ingredients. The editor and the publisher thought that it was a great way to go in terms of reverse psychology, but it honestly hadn't occurred to me that it was reverse psychology. I just thought that it was sort of an honest assessment making clear that if you were timid or easily disturbed, you could turn away.”

“If you want to pontificate, I'm certainly willing to pontificate. That's why Joely was laughing because you don't know what you asked for. Malcolm Gladwell, in his newest book "David and Goliath," writes about how sometimes things that we think of as handicaps often times are just the opposite. Or the reverse is also true.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Writing Book Sometimes Laughing Willing Opposites Reverse Handicaps Goliath

Author:Bruce Greenwood

“Your body is free but your heart is in prison. To release your heart, you simply reverse the process which locked it up. First you begin to listen for messages from your heart-messages you may have been ignoring since childhood. Next you must take the daring, risky step of expressing your heart in the outside world. . . . As you learn to live by heart, every choice you make will become another way of telling your story. . . . It is the way you were meant to exist. If you stop to listen, you'll realize that your heart has been telling you so all along.”

“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.”

“To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it”

Needs Children War Care Opportunity Belief Pay Cutting Taxes Our Children Iraq Health Care Budgets Fund Reverse Tax Cuts

Author:Tom Allen

“All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.”

Stills Lying Errors Extremes Reverse

Author:Richard Cecil

“What do I think of the reverse sweep? It's like Manchester United getting a penalty and Bryan Robson taking it with his head”

Thinking United Reverse Penalties Manchester Manchester United Bryan

Author:David Lloyd

“The future is but the obsolete in reverse.”

Reverse Obsolete

Book:The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

Source: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

“I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse.”

Facts Theory Aesthetic Reverse Paradoxical Love To Read

Author:Ernst Haas

“When I was 12 years old, I was obsessed with codes, conspiracies, and secret messages. I would record TV commercials with SoundRecorder.exe on Windows 95 and reverse them to see if I was being subliminally influenced to watch Pokémon by Japanese spies.”

Ifs Years Secret Watches Records Tvs Messages Window Code Obsessed Conspiracy Reverse Spy Tv Commercial

Author:Alex Hirsch

“I've always been very shy and sheltered; I think it was a good way of starting to communicate with people. I was taught as a child never to talk about myself, never to talk about my emotions. Of course, now I talk about myself constantly. Now I have to take reverse est.”

People Thinking Way Children Courses Emotion Taught Starting Communicate Shy Reverse Good Way

Author:Sigourney Weaver

“It was a very stupid mistake to think you could deal with heresy by burning heretics. It's the very same mistake that modernist Catholics are making today in reverse. They think you can love heretics by loving heresies.”

Thinking Today Deals Mistake Stupid Catholic Burning Reverse Heresy Heretic Same Mistakes Very Stupid Stupid Mistake

Author:Peter Kreeft

“The stock market is but a mirror which provides an image of the underlying or fundamental economic situation. Cause and effect run from the economy to the stock market, never the reverse. In 1929 the economy was headed for trouble. Eventually that trouble was violently reflected in Wall Street.”

Running Causes Situation Economy Trouble Economic Streets Effects Wall Mirrors Fundamentals Reverse Cause And Effect

Book:THE GREAT CRASH 1929

Source: THE GREAT CRASH 1929

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