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“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
Albert Einstein
“Opposition is true friendship.”
William Blake
“Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.”
Laurence Shames
“Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.”
Ayn Rand
“The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.”
Andy Warhol
“We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.”
William James
“Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, or opposites at all without opposites”
Plato
“A fanatic is always the fellow on the opposite side.”
Will Rogers
“Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.”
Hannah Arendt
