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• Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject a controllable and dialectical simulation of the moderately unmastered arousals and regulations of everyday life, in a way that is alternatively vivifying and euphoric.

  Brian Sutton-Smith

  Play, Everyday, Usual

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• Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.

  Frederick E. Crane

  Safety, Individuality, Genius

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• When I'm bearish and I sell a stock, each sale must be at a lower level than the previous sale. When I am buying, the reverse is true. I must buy on a rising scale. I don't buy long stocks on a scale down, I buy on a scale up.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Business, Long, Investing

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• Now listen, buddy, there are a few corny ideas you got to get out of your head if you're going to fly an airplane. Most things are just the reverse from what people think. The higher you are the safer you are. The Earth down there, that, that-s your enemy because once you hit that, boy, you splatter.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Airplane, Boys, Thinking

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• See, decide, attack, reverse.

  Erich Hartmann

  Aviation, Combat

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• You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.

  Francis Crick

  Engineering, Hacking, Can Do

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• Today most habeas involves the federal courts overriding state convictionswhere it used to be mostly the reverse.

  Anthony Gregory

  Today, Used, States

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• Resistance here doesn't mean revolution. It doesn't mean storming the barricades. Resistance means using art for the things that it does best, which is to create human portraits and communicate ideas and forge a climate where people of different races or classes are known to you because they make themselves known. In the simplest terms, art humanizes. It opens the circuit of empathy. And once that process happens, it's that much harder to think of people as part of a policy or a statistic. Art reverses the alienation that can creep into society.

  Questlove

  Art, Mean, Thinking

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• Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Phones, Parent, Used

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• Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Design, Sides, Thread

  Okakura Kakuzo (2012). “The Book of Tea: Classic Edition”, p.22, Tuttle Publishing

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• In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the case. This is why ladies are more sociable than gentlemen.

  Virginia Graham

  Home, Gentleman, Chairs

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• In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies.

  Kelly Miller

  Soldier, Losing, Individualism

  Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights”

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• In the United States and other countries, there has been a decline in public and private support of the arts, including dance.  Awareness that dance is not just entertainment but also a form of education and healing may reverse the trend.

  Judith Lynne Hanna

  Country, Art, Healing

  Judith Lynne Hanna (2006). “Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress”, p.218, Rowman Altamira

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• It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Facts, Protection, Said

  Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.392

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• If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society, then the reverse was wrong, too.

  Hugh Hefner

  Homosexual, Ifs

  "Hugh Hefner, Gay Rights Pioneer" by Michelle Garcia, www.advocate.com. August 28, 2009.

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• Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around — it's easier, and frankly, we're usually right. [But] reverse the waterfall as much as possible. Enlist the children in their own upbringing.

  Bruce Feiler

  Children, Kids, Order

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• Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with the smallpox virus, the village elders had instituted their own methods for controlling the virus, according to their received wisdom, which was to cut their villages off from the world, to protect their people from a raging plague. It was reverse quarantine, an ancient practice in Africa, where a village bars itself from strangers during a time of disease, and drives away outsiders who appear. (94)

  Richard Preston

  Cutting, Practice, People

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• Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Ordinary, Language

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.70, Open Road Media

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• For my part, I rather distrust men or concerns that rise up with the speed of rockets. Sudden rises are sometimes followed by equally sudden falls. I have most faith in the individual or enterprise that advances step by step. A mushroom can spring up in a day; an oak takes 50 years or more to reach maturity. Mushrooms don't last; oaks do. The real cause for an enormous number of business failures is premature over-expansion, attempting to gallop before learning to creep. Sudden successes often invite sudden reverses.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Spring, Real

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• To to change misery, disease and failure into joy, health, success and prosperity, I must think, speak and act, in ways which are the exact reverse of how most people think, speak and act.

  James Arthur Ray

  Thinking, People, Joy

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• Studies show that over 80 percent of Americans do not have their dream job. If more knew how to build organizations that inspire, we could live in a world in which that statistic was the reverse - a world in which over 80 percent of people loved their jobs. People who love going to work are more productive and more creative. They go home happier and have happier families. They treat their colleagues and clients and customers better. Inspired employees make for stronger companies and stronger economies.

  Simon Sinek

  Dream, Jobs, Home

  Simon Sinek (2009). “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”, p.14, Penguin

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• The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more.

  David Attenborough

  Coins, Sides, Ability

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• I will seek to reverse the shift of benefits from Medicaid to Medicare and hold harmless our seniors and disabled.

  Jeff Bingaman

  Senior, Benefits, Medicare

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• Love without limits; reverse the hate.

  Orlando Jones

  Hate, Limits

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• We knew before we came (to earth) that there would be many adverse circumstances to test us: accidents, sickness, and disease to prove us; temptations and distractions to try us; disappointments, discouragements, reverses, failures and all kinds of situations to determine our character.

  Robert E. Wells

  Disappointment, Character, Temptation

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