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A Russian Reversal quote on Uncyclopedia's Soviet Union article? How original. -- Yakov Smirnoff
I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry. -- Jo Nesbo
The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible. -- Mike Rounds
A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested. -- Tony Gilroy
Even families with health insurance are quite vulnerable to a severe economic reversal if someone gets sick. -- Elizabeth Warren
I understand reversal of fortune; that usually has come through my own hand, but you know, you live life on life's terms. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known. -- George C. Marshall
A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs. -- Matt Gonzalez
To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
There's been a lot of role reversal going on in the band. The roles people have been playing for a long time will always be there, but everybody's willing to try on different outfits. -- Stone Gossard
Happily, there's a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We're seeing a lot of - actually in Africa - we're seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota. -- John Dramani Mahama
These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives. -- Hari Kunzru
The apple which tempts my characters is the one that will remove the knowledge of good and evil. I suppose it's something of a reversal of the conventional Eden story: Freedom of thought is perhaps the greatest good, and needs to be fought for and sacrificed for. -- John Christopher
Governments do not have the answers - indeed, quite the reversal. A lot of times, they not only do not have the answers, but they themselves are the problem. If we are committed to helping our world's children, then we must begin to create solutions from the bottom up. -- Betty Williams
I always thought the point of life was something richer than that. Something full of great tragedy or comedy, reversal of fortune, ecstasy, that kind of thing. But no, contemporary urban theorists seem satisfied with the merely livable, which always sounds to me like the merely survivable, the not so bad. -- Jonathan Raymond
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Perversity depends on reversal and substitution. -- Mason Cooley
Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal. -- Alan Greenspan
[Ted] Cruz may have been hoping his reversal would fly under the radar. -- Chris Hayes
War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can. -- John Steinbeck
Parents want their kids' approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents' approval. -- Elizabeth Kolbert
If you want to heal Heal others And smile or weep At this very happy reversal of fate -- Muriel Barbery
A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do. -- Theodore Dalrymple
[Trade] was clearly a factor.That was a complete reversal of where things are normally at. Usually Republicans are all for free trade. -- Collin Peterson
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
Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole. -- Elbert Hubbard
Jesus announced a great reversal of values in His Sermon on the Mount, elevating not the rich or attractive, but rather the poor, the persecuted, and those who mourn. -- Philip Yancey
We have a reversal of a longstanding trend, from rising inequality across nations and constant or declining inequality within nations, to declining inequality across nations and rising inequality within them. -- Zygmunt Bauman
Until there is a reversal of the sense of values which cares more for size and appearance than for quality, there will be no solving the problem of food pollution. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed. -- Abraham Lincoln
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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time. -- Alan Greenspan
God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse around it as dangerous and swarming with snakes. -- Rumi
In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The 'anything whatever' then becomes the sophisticated acme of value. -- Roland Barthes

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