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• Older people often mistakenly consider that the young people do not care about their country, but the reverse is actually true.

  Peter Cosgrove

  Wisdom, Country, People

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• Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

  Aristotle

  Writing, Character, Giving

  "On the Art of Poetry".

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• People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Sunday, Clothes, People

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1720, Random House

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• The sucker's trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don't know, rather than the reverse.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Focus, Traps, Sucker

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.55, Random House

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• 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

  Tom Allen

  Children, War, Cutting

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• Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that.

  Eric Schmidt

  Internet, Environment, Imagine

  "Google's Eric Schmidt Talks to Charlie Rose". Businessweek, September 23, 2010.

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• It's a pitch you can extend your career with because it's less taxing on your body. It's like dog years, but in reverse. I feel like I'm 27 or 26 in knuckleball years!

  R.A. Dickey

  Dog, Years, Careers

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• It's odd to look out there and see a bunch of Mini-Mes," says Williams. "You're wondering what possessed them to do such a thing . . . It sort of does a reverse psychology on you. You'd think you'd be like `Hey, all these people want to look like me. I feel pretty cool.' But actually it makes you feel more self aware and I'm not really fond of that.

  Hayley Williams

  Thinking, Self, People

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• If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more bloated, using up all available resources.

  Jaron Lanier

  Memories, Law, Resources

  "The New Humanists: Science at the Edge". Book edited by John Brockman, 2003.

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• America should do a reverse Columbus. The world no longer needs to discover America; but America urgently needs to discover the world's view of America.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Views, America, Needs

  "Americans need to discover how the world sees them" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2013.

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• When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.

  Anthony Trollope

  Want, Natural

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.1742, e-artnow

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• The Gong Show was the greatest scam of all time. It was simple: We wanted to do a talent show. There weren't any venues for acts back then. We were gonna have a show of new, fresh, good acts. But we couldn't find any; they were all lousy. So rather than throw away the idea, I said, "Let's reverse it. Let's do lousy acts." Now, is that a scam? I'm telling you.

  Chuck Barris

  Simple, Ideas, Scams

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• 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.

  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy, Men, Order

  "Essays". Book by Francis Bacon. Chapter 17: "Of Superstition", 1625.

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• Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.

  Jacques Maritain

  Religious, Commitment, Atheism

  Jacques Maritain (1966). “A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings”

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• The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth. He is a slave, not indeed to a visible master, but to the past, to the spirits of his dead forefathers, who haunt his steps from birth to death, and rule him with a rod of iron.

  James G. Frazer

  Past, Iron, Savages

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• God has ordained the state as a delegated authority; it is not autonomous. The state is to be an agent of justice, to restrain evil by punishing the wrongdoer, and to protect the good in society. When it does the reverse, it has no proper authority. It is then a usurped authority and as such it becomes lawless and is tyranny.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Evil, Justice, Doe

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• Reverse the typical American meal pattern and instead eat like a king for breakfast, a prince for lunch and a pauper for supper.

  Jane Brody

  Kings, Lunch, Typical

  Jane E. Brody (1982). “Jane Brody's The New York times guide to personal health”, Times Books(NY)

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• It is considered in England and the United States that the Government of South Africa is altogether too harsh with its native peoples. It is sadly humorous to notice that the native in South Africa, however, holds an exactly reverse opinion and the fault he finds with the South African Government is that it is far too lenient in its administration of laws throughout the native populace.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Humorous, Law, Government

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• Substance is a subspecies of value. When you reverse the containment process and define substance in terms of value the mystery disappears: substance is a "stable pattern of inorganic values." The problem then disappears. The world of objects and the world of values is unified.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Substance, World, Patterns

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• Good traders liquidate when they are wrong, great traders reverse when they are wrong

  Jack D. Schwager

  Traders

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• 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.

  Andre Agassi

  Winning, Opposites, Games

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• The suffering that food animals undergo, the suffering of those who eat them and profit by them, the suffering of starving people who could be fed with the grain that feeds these animals, and the suffering we thoughtlessly impose on the ecosystem, other creatures, and future generations are all interconnected. It is this interconnectedness of suffering, and its reverse, of love, caring, and awareness, that calls out for our understanding.

  Will Tuttle

  Caring, Animal, Ecosystems

  Will Tuttle (2007). “The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony”, p.145, Lantern Books

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• We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another. When you think for-profit and non-profit, you most often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return. Clearly, there's some opportunity in the spectrum between those extremes. What's missing is the for-profit finance industry coming in to that area. Look at the enormous diversity of the for-profit financial industry as opposed to monolithic nature of the non-profit world; it's quite astonishing.

  Bill Drayton

  Zero, Opportunity, Thinking

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• I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?

  Jane Austen

  Accomplishment, Expectations, Quality

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.591, Ageless Reads

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• Obama's perverse view of fairness threatens to create reverse incentives, militating against growth, jobs, expansion and upward mobility.

  Dick Morris

  Jobs, Views, Growth

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