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• Once you have something so deeply infused in your culture and your brand, it would be very difficult to reverse that inertia if you wanted to.

  Andrew Mason

  Would Be, Culture, Difficult

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• We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.

  John F. Kennedy

  Adversity, Faces, Facts

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• The worst thing about affirmative action is that it encourages reverse discrimination, so-called because it goes in the opposite way of how we naturally discriminate.

  Stephen Colbert

  Opposites, Way, Action

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• All this time, I thought we were growing apart because I was leaving Lena behind. But really it was the reverse. She was learning to lie. She was learning to love.

  Lauren Oliver

  Lying, Leaving, Growing

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Hana: A Delirium Short Story”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.

  Charles Dickens

  Evil, Hatred, Vices

  Charles Dickens (2001). “Hard Times”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.

  John Stuart Mill

  Ambition, Government, Political

  John Stuart Mill (1848). “Principles of political economy with some of their applications to social philosophy”, p.523

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• Play the Reverse gossip game. See how many nice things you can say behind someones back.

  Bob Burg

  Nice, Games, Play

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• If the Federal Reserve pursues a policy which Congress or the President believes not to be in the public interest, there is nothing Congress can do to reverse the policy. Nor is there anything the people can do. Such bastions of unaccountable power are undemocratic. The Federal Reserve System must be reformed, so that it is answerable to the elected representatives of the people.

  Wright Patman

  Believe, People, President

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• You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse.

  Margaret Atwood

  Atheism, Absence, Amount

  Margaret Atwood (2015). “Morning in the Burned House”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The traditional view of purpose says it comes from on high, from God, from the Creator. Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition. Whereas people used to think of meaning coming from on high and being ordained from the top down, now we have Darwin saying, "No, all of this design can happen, all of this purpose can emerge from the bottom up without any direction at all."

  Daniel Dennett

  Thinking, Views, Ideas

  "Big Thinkers on Evolution". "NOVA", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2009.

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• You've gained some powers by your entrance into other dimensions and you use them to attack others or to make others miserable, then power reverses on you and it pulls you apart because it's not supposed to be used that way.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Use

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• From that moment the pendulum went into reverse

  Gerald Sinstadt

  Football, Moments, Pendulums

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• The challenge of power is how to use it and not abuse it. When you abuse it, it reverses on you and it hurts you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hurt, Buddhism, Challenges

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• The truly great consider, first, how they may gain the approbation of God, and, secondly, that of their own conscience. Having done this, they would then willingly conciliate the good opinion of their fellow-men. But the truly little reverse the thing. The primary object with them is to secure the applause of their fellow-men; and having effected this, the approbation of God and their own conscience may follow on as they can.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Atheism, Done

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.85

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• Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Bears, Fortune

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• Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general cart presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  May, Maintaining, Conquer

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• People give ear to an upstart astrologer [Copernicus]...this fool wishes
  to reverse the entire science of astronomy

  Martin Luther

  People, Giving, Wish

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• ... [I]n any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Peace, War, Mean

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.77, Open Road Media

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• Honesty, I went through terrible, terrible times where I just took myself over the coals. I thought I must be the most impure person in the world ... but because that is reverse egotism, I thought I must be the second most impure person in the world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Honesty, Rama, Coal

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• The good Shepherd dog knows his master almost better than himself and must wonder indeed at the lack of the reverse.

  Max von Stephanitz

  Dog, Shepherds, Wonder

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• The reason territorial monarchs failed time after time against maritime powers was not that absolutist, non-consensual governments were incapable of building great fleets in peace - quite the reverse - but that they were unable to fund them in the crises of war. Mainly this was because they were forced to divert resources from the fleet to their armies, to fight territorial rivals frequently financed by their maritime enemy from the profits of sea trade.

  Peter Padfield

  War, Army, Fighting

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• And what has come to prevail in democracies is the very reverse of beneficial, in those, that is, which are regarded as the most democratically run. The reason for this lies in the failure properly to define liberty. For there are two marks by which democracy is thought to be defined: "sovereignty of the majority" and "liberty." "Just" is equated with what is equal, and the decision of the majority as to what is equal is regarded as sovereign; and liberty is seen in terms of doing what one wants.

  Aristotle

  Running, Lying, Two

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• But Obama is a cool cat. We've seen that before: when he suffered reverses he didn't react immediately. He took a couple of days to react.

  Michael Fullilove

  Couple, Cat

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Do not feel that you are destined not to make that final liberation in this life. This is egotism in a reverse form. Don't be concerned one way or the other.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Finals

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• In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mean, Government, Long

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