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  • Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful. -- Edward Abbey
  • The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • We've got a lot of pressure going. This is for my Latin counterpart. -- Bobby Bonilla
  • The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight. -- Paul Watzlawick
  • The average married man lives two thousand and five days longer than his single counterpart, albeit with less reason. -- Michael Feldman
  • When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart. -- Camille Pissarro
  • The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind. -- Gore Vidal
  • The bubble, as investing phenomenon, has been well studied ever since the 17th-century tulip bulb frenzy. Its counterpart in bear markets is not well understood. -- Kenneth Fisher
  • This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates behind a mask which he calls National Planning. -- John T. Flynn
  • Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, dark, shadowy - and it made me feel something. That's when I realized music was inside me. -- Alicia Keys
  • Until we command the exact same salary as every male counterpart, I feel a political desire to stand by other women. If we don't stand together, that equality will never be fully realized, and that bothers me. -- Shirley Manson
  • As a black actor, you always have the feeling that there's not as much work out there as for a white counterpart, but is America after all; you have to play ball if you're going to play ball. -- Dorian Missick
  • There are dozens of references to God in the Scriptures for every one to the figure of Satan. This reflects a sometimes forgotten theological truth that the devil is by no means God's counterpart. He is a creature, not the Creator. -- John Ortberg
  • I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull it all together, because you go nuts working if I had to finish an entire project all within my own head. -- Andrew Bird
  • Everything a teenager does, says or looks at, however transitory, contributes to an aggregated virtual self that might one day have consequences for its real-life counterpart. How many of us would keep all our relationships and reputations intact if every transgression, mistake or youthful folly was held in public view? -- Beeban Kidron
  • Grade 9: I was too small for football, too shy for drama class, but I did have a passion for music. And so, with a mouth full of braces (and a glorious mullet), I accepted that the trombone would be a fantastic scholastic counterpart to my extracurricular loves: country music, and the guitar. -- Jason McCoy
  • Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind. -- Viet D. Dinh
  • Language is the picture and counterpart of thought. -- Mark Hopkins
  • Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence. -- Louis O. Kelso
  • The mind cannot live in nature, only against nature, only as its counterpart. -- Hermann Hesse
  • Nature has a counterpart, a representation of every interior mood and obscure perception of man. -- Mary Butts
  • I've always written songs with a visual counterpart in my mind that no one else can see. -- Phil Elvrum
  • It is the loss of the feminine counterpart of God that causes the wound that never heals.. -- Margaret Starbird
  • In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues. -- Warren Farrell
  • Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology. -- Augustus William Hare
  • So in his very politically-incorrect way, I think [James Mattis] is a good counterpart to Donald Trump, who doesn't read books. -- Peter R. Mansoor
  • Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing. -- Elbert Hubbard
  • The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good. -- George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
  • ALL THOUGHTS WHICH HAVE BEEN EMOTIONALIZED, (given feeling) AND MIXED WITH FAITH, begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical equivalent or counterpart. -- Napoleon Hill
  • He who would foresee what is to happen should look to what has happened: for all that is has its counterpart in time past. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
  • Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close. -- Alfred North Whitehead
  • Our soul should be a mirror of Christ; we should reflect every feature: for every grace in Christ there should be a counterpart in us. -- Robert M
  • The circle, or ring, dance was seen as an earthly counterpart of the heavenly dance of the angels, which was itself a celebration of the resurrection. -- Gerald Jonas
  • I believe love - and its feminine, though not necessarily female, counterpart, romance, is a private thing. It's something I'm not willing to share with the public. -- George Harrison
  • When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, What is the best language in which to do business?" the man responded: "My customer's language -- Leonard Sweet
  • You cannot not communicate. Every behavior is a kind of communication. Because behavior does not have a counterpart (there is no anti-behavior), it is not possible not to communicate. -- Paul Watzlawick
  • Remember that your dominating focus attracts, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful of what you focus on. -- Napoleon Hill
  • ...then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness, seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac commander's soul. -- Herman Melville
  • There was a time in medieval England when they had wandering minstrels ... A wandering minstrel would have been Frank Sinatra's counterpart had he lived during the time of Henry II in 1190 or 1180. -- Frank Sinatra, Jr.
  • Psychological imprisonment was no less uncomfortable than its physical counterpart. In some ways, it was even worse; it provided the illusion of physical freedom, but garnered none of the benefits of it. -- Nenia Campbell
  • There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret. -- Criss Jami
  • It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis. -- Sigmund Freud
  • Sex is of the same clay as Time! -- of the same clay Since both are in their essence but One-Way Time is the one-way dimension: sex its tart And subtle biological counterpart. -- Wyndham Lewis
  • The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • It's a little-known linguistic curiosity that the name Jehovah or Jaweh is the same name as Eve; Havva, the counterpart name in Farsi, the language spoken by the Persians, means either Jaweh or Eve. -- Paula Gunn Allen
  • What we each fall in love with individually is, I believe, our moral, mental, and physical complement. Not our like, not our counterpart; quite the contrary; within healthy limits, our unlike and our opposite. -- Grant Allen
  • Princess Bibesco delighted in a semi-ideal world - a world which, though having a counterpart in her experience, was to a great extent brought into being by her own temperament and, one might say, flair. -- Elizabeth Bowen
  • In fact, the wage-price spiral is the functional counterpart of unemployment. The latter occurs when there is insufficient demand; the spiral operates when there is too much and also,unfortunately, when there is just enough. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
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