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• If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.

  Arthur Koestler

  Israel, Way, Power Corrupts

  Arthur Koestler, Harold Harris (1975). “Astride the two cultures: Arthur Koestler at 70”, Not Avail

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• However, FDA attempted to reverse this clear congressional intent in March, 1979, by proposing to regulate vitamins and minerals as 'Over-The-Counter' drugs.

  Orrin Hatch

  Dark, Fda, Vitamins And Minerals

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• As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Self, Eyebrows, Gold

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• We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Advice, Vices, Credit

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• The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.

  Christopher Alexander

  Dream, Mean, Reality

  "To be a good builder, you need a feel for what surrounds you. Christopher Alexander knows." by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. February 3, 2006.

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• And what is the Republican solution to these outrageous [racial] inequalities? There isn't one. And that's the point. Denying racism is the new racism. To not acknowledge those statistics, to think of that as a 'black problem' and not an American problem. To believe, as a majority of FOX viewers do, that reverse-racism is a bigger problem than racism, that's racist.

  Bill Maher

  Believe, Thinking, Racism

  "Bill Maher: 'Denying Racism Is The New Racism'", www.realclearpolitics.com. October 7, 2011.

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• The elimination of horrible disease, the increase of the quality of lives (for humans and for animals) achieved through research using animals is so incalculably great that the argument of these critics, systematically pursued, establishes not their conclusion but its reverse: to refrain from using animals in biomedical research is, on utilitarian grounds, morally wrong.

  Carl Cohen

  Animal, Quality, Research

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• To reverse the trend and reduce the role of government in our lives, and thus alleviate the government deficit and inflation pressures, is a giant educational task. The social and economic ideas that gave birth to the transfer system must be discredited and replaced with old values of individual independence and self-reliance. The social philosophy of individual freedom and unhampered private property must again be our guiding light.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Educational, Philosophy, Self

  Hans F. Sennholz (1979). “Age of inflation”

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• Prose proposes, verse reverses.

  Richard Howard

  Propose, Prose, Verses

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• Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore.

  Walter Russell Mead

  Military, War, Issues

  "Seven questions for Walter Russell Mead". The Economist Interview, www.economist.com. January 16, 2010.

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• The more positive you are the more people want to be around you and the less positive you are...well, just reverse it!

  Germany Kent

  People, Want, Wells

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• When you are painting you should take a flat mirror and often look at your work within it, and it will then be seen in reverse, and will appear to be by the hand of some other master, and you will be better able to judge of its faults than in any other way.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Mirrors, Hands, Judging

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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• Mental and spiritual laws are so powerful that they can be used to multiply, neutralize, or even reverse natural laws!

  Catherine Ponder

  Spiritual, Powerful, Law

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• We don't need new discoveries or new inventions to reverse this trend. We have the tools at our disposal to reverse it. All we need is the motivation, the opportunity and the willpower to do what needs to be done. ...With this report, we have a very solid road map that we need to make these goals real, to solve this problem within a generation.

  Michelle Obama

  Motivation, Children, Real

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• It is not on the pinnacle of success and ease where men and women grow most. It is often down in the valley of heartache and disappointment and reverses where men and women grow.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Disappointment, Adversity, Heartache

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• The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

  Charles Colson

  Stories, Next, Firsts

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• You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.

  J. Cole

  Knowing, People, Fame

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• If I'm in the car after a bad game, I may think about ways I need to improve. But the second I reach home, the game's over. Work doesn't come inside with me. Same thing in reverse - I don't bring my personal life into the ballpark. Learning to keep it all separate has made life easier.

  Matt Kemp

  Home, Thinking, Games

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• America is a land of healthy appetites. It is not in the American character to live in order to eat. Rather, the reverse is true. Many try, but just as Americans don't make good gigolos, nether do they make good gourmets.

  Ludwig Bemelmans

  Food, Character, Order

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• As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?

  Rose Macaulay

  Religious, Firsts, Groups

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• Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.

  Steven Pinker

  Engineering, Technique, Example

  Steven Pinker (2014). “The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century”, p.17, Penguin

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• Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he did meet skeptics he could not convince and sinners he could not convert. Forgiveness of sins requires an act of will on the receiver's part, and some who heard Jesus' strongest words about grace and forgiveness turned away unrepentant.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Birth Defects, Grace

  Philip Yancey (2009). “The Jesus I Never Knew Participant's Guide: Six Sessions on the Life of Christ”, p.23, Zondervan

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• Enemies are just friends in reverse.

  Gary Busey

  Just Friends, Enemy

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• The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its reverse side. In truth, tragedy and comedy are the twin masks of history - its mass appeal.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  History, Tragedy, Woven

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• If you are on the side whence the wind is blowing you will see the trees looking much lighter than you would see them on the other sides; and this is due to the fact that the wind turns up the reverse side of the leaves which in all trees is much whiter than the upper side.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Wind

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.135, OUP Oxford

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