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Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority. — Sigmund Freud

The reality is that most innovative work is incremental improvement. It's about staying ahead of trends as opposed to reacting to trends. — Bill Sheridan

With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves. — Milton Friedman

I am opposed to any state with an ethnic character, not only to Israel. — Norman Finkelstein

Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past. — Maurice Maeterlinck

The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I would rather do three or four small parts every year as opposed to some of the lower-hanging fruit that might get my name above the title. — Jason Bateman

Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion? — Marjane Satrapi

Sometimes our future is
dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want. — Nicholas Sparks

As a Senator I am opposed to duelling. As Ben. Wade, I recognize the code. — Benjamin F. Wade

Evil can be opposed without being mirrored. Oppressors can be resisted without being emulated. Enemies can be neutralized without being destroyed. — Walter Wink

I find it so easy to read qualified commentators who are 180 degrees opposed to each other. — Neil Oliver

Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is ... We've all heard that — Randy Pausch

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also. — C.S. Lewis

When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government. — Gene Robinson

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes. — Christopher Dodd

I'm obsessively opposed to the typical. — Lady Gaga

You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses. — Seth Godin

I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not. — Frank Gehry

I am opposed to heart attacks and cancer and strokes the way I am opposed to sin. — Mary Lasker

Moreover, people have become accustomed to reading to escape as opposed to reading to think. — Leigh M. Lane

Never in my life would I have expected USDA to be opposed to farmers and ranchers. — Jerry Moran

The prophets who spoke to their generations for God did not please and conform; they irritated and opposed. — Billy Graham

I've always tried to be the person who says things no one else wants to say. I've always kept it in house, as opposed to going to the papers. — Eli Manning

To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual. — Piet Mondrian

I'm not opposed to anything. If an opportunity comes across, I'll answer the door if it comes knocking. — Rob Brown

People who focus on 'getting better' goals (also known as Personal Bests) as opposed to performance goals have a much better chance of success. — Jill Konrath

He had made his way up the ranks of the department the hard way, with effort and integrity as opposed to politics. — Kenneth Eade

I was always wanting to learn and be one of those actresses who can actually hold a conversation as opposed to standing there looking pretty. — Michelle Trachtenberg

For unquestionably nothing is more opposed to the law of God than sects, for in it is communicated the truth of God, which is the bond of unity. — John Calvin

A man convinced against his will, stands opposed ever still. A man convinced he is right, gives the effort twice the fight. — Jeffrey Fry

Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony — Blaise Pascal

I think when it comes to television as opposed to film, the producers really are the writers. We work with people who are purely financial producers. — Marc Guggenheim

I'm just opposed to a pure inflation-only mandate in which the only thing a central bank cares about is inflation and not employment. — Janet Yellen

To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages. — Joseph Joubert

Everything in excess Is opposed by nature. — Hippocrates

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face. — Carol Moseley Braun

Right. As opposed to your cradle-robbing mentor. I don't really see you making much progress with him. — Richelle Mead

I thought you were opposed to engaging in prostitution to fund our travels."
"That's not what I - is prostitution your answer for everything? — Claudia Gray

Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient. — Jesse Schell

I wanted to give birth as opposed to being delivered! — Ricki Lake

Speaking out as he had never before done in Congress, Lyndon Johnson in 1947 opposed most of Truman's Fair Deal. — Robert A. Caro

Now that I'm 91, as opposed to being 90, I'm much wiser. I'm much more aware and I'm much sexier. — Betty White

Studies show that people tend to persevere longer with problems they've been told are difficult as opposed to easy. — Gretchen Rubin

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. — Anatole Broyard

I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me. — Daniel Clowes

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power. — Thomas Paine

Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven. — Dennis Oppenheim

I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule. — Arlen Specter

I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts. — James Harvey Robinson

I like dates that are really fun as opposed to just getting dinner. — Jamie Blackley

I always try to just be honest ... As opposed to artifice or manipulation. — Demetri Martin

The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interests of every other class in the community. — David Ricardo

Paul started out as an outsider to the apostolic band and originally opposed rather than supported their movement. — Bart D. Ehrman

Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple. — Lucy Grealy

Measurement is fabulous. Unless you're busy measuring what's easy to measure as opposed to what's important — Seth Godin

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty. — Bill Paxton

I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing. — Julia Glass

I say long and lean as opposed to tall, because you could be 5 four and look long and lean. — Tim Gunn

A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style. — Alain Resnais

Technology helps us become more efficient and productive but our business still has a lot of art as opposed to strictly science. — James Sinegal

I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States. — Janet Reno

I was trying to point out I'm not opposed to gays having their partnership. I'm opposed to gays using theterm marriage for their relationship. — Rick Warren

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. — Isaac Newton

But when feminists suggest that God might be a She without suggesting that the Devil might also be female, they must be opposed. — Warren Farrell

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass. — Billy Sheehan

In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or popular in the short term. — Richard Leakey

It's been too many years since I've played live as myself as opposed to in a fake band for a film. — Luke Treadaway

You're much better off to buy fresh fish from a market as opposed to buying something that's been frozen and processed and covered in breadcrumbs. — Curtis Stone

I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land. — Mark Twain

Play as well as you can; that's it, as opposed to creating these odd paranoias, trying to be something you're not. — Ville Valo

Faith is not opposed to reason, but it is sometimes opposed to feelings and appearances. — Timothy Keller

One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists. — Carter G. Woodson

Create what you want as opposed to being stuck in what you didn't have. — Iyanla Vanzant

I am opposed, naturally, to regurgitating anecdote or any other form of received wisdom, unless it is characterized as such. — John Thorn

Real poverty is about doing what you have to do as opposed to what you want. — Lionel Shriver

This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense. — Mark Rothko

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. — Alexei Sayle

I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not. — Byron Katie

I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell. — Alan Ball

Switters had always seemed to take a both/and approach to life, as opposed to the more conventional and restrictive either/or. — Tom Robbins

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found. — Miguel De Unamuno

You opposed fascism, then you ditched communism.
'No, I didn't. Communism ditched me by turning into Stalinism'. — Arthur Koestler

One of the things my father taught me was you should not exclude those who are opposed to your ideas. — Benigno Aquino III

And, by the way, how come all the people who were so in favor of unilateral nuclear disarmament are so opposed to unilateral protection against nukes? — P. J. O'Rourke

Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict. — Peter Breggin

We need an opposition to remind us if we are making mistakes. When you are not opposed you think everything you do is right. — Mahathir Mohamad

Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee. — William Shakespeare

I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry about our virtual blinders. — Diane Ackerman

Villagers saw me as a person when I played with them, as opposed to when I talked with them. — Rebekah Nathan

As a Christian, as an individual, as a doctor, I am absolutely opposed to the death penalty. — Joycelyn Elders

As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it. — Ezra Koenig

Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach. — Donald Pleasence

I'm more of an empiricist. I'm focused on right or wrong, as opposed to left or right. — Anthony Scaramucci

I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina. — Suzanne Farrell

I'm opposed to censure, .. Whether or not one will be permitted, it's under discussion. It isn't ruled out, but it's not a dead-bang certainty either. — Henry Hyde

People always want to pin yesterday's news on you, as opposed to asking you what you're going to do for the future, what you're doing today. — Corey Feldman

I want to be known for the work I've done, as opposed to where I go on Saturday nights ... — Amanda Bynes

Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me. — Jasper Johns