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I always knew that deep down in every human heart, there is mercy and generosity. No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than the opposite. – Nelson Mandela	added by Normando 5 months ago
The more he’s out there talking to people, visiting states, doing retail events like he did in Manchester, all of that misinformation evaporates, whatever the real man is will come out and I think we saw some of that Friday night. It was said he wasn’t good at retail and didn’t connect with people. That’s the exact opposite of what I saw. – Chris Ager	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Building new coal capacity is the opposite of what we need. – Leah Stokes	Found on CNN 1 year ago
WBD has clearly decided on the opposite approach. – Insider Intelligence analyst Paul Verna	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s also important to say that the opposite cannot be extrapolated nor recommended – ie gaining weight would not necessarily decrease your mortality risk, as always, discuss your weight changes with your doctor or other medical professional. – Perri Halperin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It does n’t feel real, it feels like we’re living in a simulation, because it’s just ridiculous, we live on opposite coasts, we both happen to be in Utah, in the same National Park, same day. – Trail Aaron	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The position of the National Harm Reduction Coalition is that criminalization of drugs has never worked to reduce drug use or addiction. It’s the opposite. Criminalization is the opposite of harm reduction. – Mary Sylla	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There were tears, there was that emotion. But then to sit on that stage and watch the opposite of what we represented on display – there was no diversity, there was no color on that stage, there was no reflection of the broader sense of America. – Michelle Obama	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They’re not going to get more valuable over time; it’s the exact opposite, as inflation eats away at the value. And the longer you hold onto these unused gift cards, the more likely you are to lose them or forget about them or have the store go out of business. – Ted Rossman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The opposite of rising rents is not necessarily falling rents, it is stabilizing rents, and now rents are moving sideways, if not moving a little higher. – Jonathan Miller	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field. – Michel de Montaigne	added by Normando 1 year ago
The stakes could not be higher, at a time when we need to make investments to create jobs, and strengthen the middle class, and grow our economy because we’ve got competition coming from all around the world, we’ve got some of the House Republicans who put forward a budget that does just the opposite. – President Obama	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Crisis communications 101 is to get all the facts out as soon as possible. The White House has done the opposite of that, letting news drip out day after day. The President should have addressed this directly days ago, waiting until Thursday and then giving a very lawyerly statement only feeds the scandal. – Alex Conant	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The main difference we see is that Europe was, for months, reducing Russian crude imports before the December deadline began, on diesel we see the opposite, where imports have picked up — almost a final dash before the finish line. – Jay Maroo	Found on CNN 1 year ago
He thought the opposite of integration was not just segregation. – Bill Moyers	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In this instance, they are dramatically different, the intent on the part of the president is not there, the cooperation on the part of the president is there. The exact opposite to what you had with the parallel of former President Trump. – Jim Clyburn	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We know this is probably true because people who have lived a healthy lifestyle have less biological age than those who have done the opposite. – David Sinclair	Found on CNN 1 year ago
For people with rosacea, red marks or fresh hyperpigmentation, primers with a green tint can help neutralize the discoloration, green and red are opposite colors on the color wheel so they balance each other and make it much easier to apply makeup over it. – Joshua Zeichner	Found on CNN 1 year ago
However, in the past three months, Oregon has been slightly drier than normal and California has been slightly wetter than normal( the opposite of what is expected). – Marybeth Arcodia	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think just if you're going to ask members to vote over and over and over again to try to wear people down, I think it actually has the opposite effect, my view has been for us to call a recess, get in a room, figure it out, have those conversations and then go back to the floor. – Kevin McCarthy	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
As we wait for our next helping of ‘Succession,’ apparently coming in spring 2023, ‘The Bear’ provided us with a similarly addictive dose of vividly memorable characters, family drama and eye-popping surprises, albeit on the opposite end of the class spectrum, but is it a comedy or a drama? – Jeff Yang	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When three guests go searching for their ancestors in a remote village and get kicked out by their alleged relatives, that’s the opposite from our inbred hospitality, also, the escorts and the reference to local criminal organizations depict a negative image. – Enzo Anastasi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There is a fake news narrative that I was furious — it is just the opposite, the people I endorsed did very well. I was batting 98.6% in the primaries, and 216 to 19 in the general election — that is amazing. – Former President Trump	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The question is simply what is going on — and if there’s nothing nefarious, then let us know, it’s so ludicrous that you can have something as simple as Tylenol saying where it’s from, then something the complete opposite with no answers. – Di Liberto	Found on FOX News 1 year ago

I always knew that deep down in every human heart, there is mercy and generosity. No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than the opposite.

– Nelson Mandela

added by Normando
5 months ago

The more he’s out there talking to people, visiting states, doing retail events like he did in Manchester, all of that misinformation evaporates, whatever the real man is will come out and I think we saw some of that Friday night. It was said he wasn’t good at retail and didn’t connect with people. That’s the exact opposite of what I saw.

– Chris Ager

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Building new coal capacity is the opposite of what we need.

– Leah Stokes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

WBD has clearly decided on the opposite approach.

– Insider Intelligence analyst Paul Verna

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s also important to say that the opposite cannot be extrapolated nor recommended – ie gaining weight would not necessarily decrease your mortality risk, as always, discuss your weight changes with your doctor or other medical professional.

– Perri Halperin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It does n’t feel real, it feels like we’re living in a simulation, because it’s just ridiculous, we live on opposite coasts, we both happen to be in Utah, in the same National Park, same day.

– Trail Aaron

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The position of the National Harm Reduction Coalition is that criminalization of drugs has never worked to reduce drug use or addiction. It’s the opposite. Criminalization is the opposite of harm reduction.

– Mary Sylla

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There were tears, there was that emotion. But then to sit on that stage and watch the opposite of what we represented on display – there was no diversity, there was no color on that stage, there was no reflection of the broader sense of America.

– Michelle Obama

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They’re not going to get more valuable over time; it’s the exact opposite, as inflation eats away at the value. And the longer you hold onto these unused gift cards, the more likely you are to lose them or forget about them or have the store go out of business.

– Ted Rossman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The opposite of rising rents is not necessarily falling rents, it is stabilizing rents, and now rents are moving sideways, if not moving a little higher.

– Jonathan Miller

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

– Michel de Montaigne

added by Normando
1 year ago

The stakes could not be higher, at a time when we need to make investments to create jobs, and strengthen the middle class, and grow our economy because we’ve got competition coming from all around the world, we’ve got some of the House Republicans who put forward a budget that does just the opposite.

– President Obama

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Crisis communications 101 is to get all the facts out as soon as possible. The White House has done the opposite of that, letting news drip out day after day. The President should have addressed this directly days ago, waiting until Thursday and then giving a very lawyerly statement only feeds the scandal.

– Alex Conant

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The main difference we see is that Europe was, for months, reducing Russian crude imports before the December deadline began, on diesel we see the opposite, where imports have picked up — almost a final dash before the finish line.

– Jay Maroo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He thought the opposite of integration was not just segregation.

– Bill Moyers

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In this instance, they are dramatically different, the intent on the part of the president is not there, the cooperation on the part of the president is there. The exact opposite to what you had with the parallel of former President Trump.

– Jim Clyburn

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We know this is probably true because people who have lived a healthy lifestyle have less biological age than those who have done the opposite.

– David Sinclair

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For people with rosacea, red marks or fresh hyperpigmentation, primers with a green tint can help neutralize the discoloration, green and red are opposite colors on the color wheel so they balance each other and make it much easier to apply makeup over it.

– Joshua Zeichner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

However, in the past three months, Oregon has been slightly drier than normal and California has been slightly wetter than normal( the opposite of what is expected).

– Marybeth Arcodia

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think just if you're going to ask members to vote over and over and over again to try to wear people down, I think it actually has the opposite effect, my view has been for us to call a recess, get in a room, figure it out, have those conversations and then go back to the floor.

– Kevin McCarthy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

As we wait for our next helping of ‘Succession,’ apparently coming in spring 2023, ‘The Bear’ provided us with a similarly addictive dose of vividly memorable characters, family drama and eye-popping surprises, albeit on the opposite end of the class spectrum, but is it a comedy or a drama?

– Jeff Yang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When three guests go searching for their ancestors in a remote village and get kicked out by their alleged relatives, that’s the opposite from our inbred hospitality, also, the escorts and the reference to local criminal organizations depict a negative image.

– Enzo Anastasi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is a fake news narrative that I was furious — it is just the opposite, the people I endorsed did very well. I was batting 98.6% in the primaries, and 216 to 19 in the general election — that is amazing.

– Former President Trump

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The question is simply what is going on — and if there’s nothing nefarious, then let us know, it’s so ludicrous that you can have something as simple as Tylenol saying where it’s from, then something the complete opposite with no answers.

– Di Liberto

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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