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While dating someone who has similar personality preferences can have its benefits, Isabel Briggs Myers have all heard of the expression' opposites attract.' So to rule out a potential partner on account of having a different MBTI personality type might see someone miss out on an exciting relationship with a wonderful person. – Cameron Nott	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The United Kingdom intention to diverge requires a case-by-case discussion in each area. Equivalence and divergence are polar opposites, i am optimistic that over time, through cooperation and trust, we will build a stable and balanced relationship with our UK friends. – Mairead McGuinness	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Steve Grossman made a very big impression on, I think, everyone. Steve Grossman is very authentic, and this is what people are craving, that is one thing Steve Grossman has in common with the current president : What you see is what you get. Otherwise, they are complete opposites. – Kamala Harris	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It's one of the most interesting counties that no one ever talks about in New Hampshire because it's got this mix of polar opposites, very strong liberal Democrats and Tea Party Republicans. It should be a place where Donald Trump does well if he's going to do well anywhere, in working class mill cities like say Rochester and Somersworth. – Dante Scala	Found on CNN 8 years ago
They say that opposites attract, and it's true, we're completely opposite, but that's what makes it fun. I never know what he's gonna say or do. He's always surprising me. – Dolly Parton	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We judge opposites very superficially. Cameron Diaz and Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden may not physically match ; but if Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden values are aligned, Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden aren't that different. – Andrea Syrtash	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash. – Louis Aragon	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. – Andy Warhol	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Opposites are cures for opposites. – Hippocrates c. 460-400 BC, Breaths, bk. I	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference. – A. S. Neill, Summerhill	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited. – Helen Luke	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. – Hermann Hesse	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality. – Franoise d'Aubign Maintenon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. – Andy Warhol	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Ladies and gentlemen, today we're here to honor electricity, the charge that charges everything from those electrons snapping in our brain to our father the sun. What's the sun It's kind of like a brain. Electromagnetic field, solar flares sparking back and forth from those nerve cells. We're all one, folks, giant blobs of electricity, all of us. Positive & negative, electromagnetic fields just circling each other. Positive, negative, north, south, male and female. Looking for that electric moment. Magnet to magnet, opposites attract. – Robin Green	added by anonymous 14 years ago

While dating someone who has similar personality preferences can have its benefits, Isabel Briggs Myers have all heard of the expression' opposites attract.' So to rule out a potential partner on account of having a different MBTI personality type might see someone miss out on an exciting relationship with a wonderful person.

– Cameron Nott

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The United Kingdom intention to diverge requires a case-by-case discussion in each area. Equivalence and divergence are polar opposites, i am optimistic that over time, through cooperation and trust, we will build a stable and balanced relationship with our UK friends.

– Mairead McGuinness

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Steve Grossman made a very big impression on, I think, everyone. Steve Grossman is very authentic, and this is what people are craving, that is one thing Steve Grossman has in common with the current president : What you see is what you get. Otherwise, they are complete opposites.

– Kamala Harris

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's one of the most interesting counties that no one ever talks about in New Hampshire because it's got this mix of polar opposites, very strong liberal Democrats and Tea Party Republicans. It should be a place where Donald Trump does well if he's going to do well anywhere, in working class mill cities like say Rochester and Somersworth.

– Dante Scala

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They say that opposites attract, and it's true, we're completely opposite, but that's what makes it fun. I never know what he's gonna say or do. He's always surprising me.

– Dolly Parton

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We judge opposites very superficially. Cameron Diaz and Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden may not physically match ; but if Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden values are aligned, Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden aren't that different.

– Andrea Syrtash

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

– Louis Aragon

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

– Andy Warhol

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Opposites are cures for opposites.

– Hippocrates c. 460-400 BC, Breaths, bk. I

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference.

– A. S. Neill, Summerhill

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.

– Helen Luke

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

– Hermann Hesse

added by anonymous
14 years ago

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

– Franoise d'Aubign Maintenon

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

– Andy Warhol

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Ladies and gentlemen, today we're here to honor electricity, the charge that charges everything from those electrons snapping in our brain to our father the sun. What's the sun It's kind of like a brain. Electromagnetic field, solar flares sparking back and forth from those nerve cells. We're all one, folks, giant blobs of electricity, all of us. Positive & negative, electromagnetic fields just circling each other. Positive, negative, north, south, male and female. Looking for that electric moment. Magnet to magnet, opposites attract.

– Robin Green

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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