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The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.
alan ayckbourn— The Crafty Art of Playwriting (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) p. 3.
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. Thus the individual, his freedom and reason, are the products of society, and not vice versa: society is not the product of individuals comprising it; and the higher, the more fully the individual is developed, the greater his freedom — and the more he is the product of society, the more does he receive from society and the greater his debt to it.
mikhail bakunin— The Philosophy of Bakunin (1953) edited by G. P. Maximoff (Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press), p. 158.
“The peers just fill the air with their speeches.”“And from what I've seen, vice versa.”
gregory benford— Chapter 5 (p. 46)
The simple fact is that code quality tends to improve as you move between platforms... non-obvious bugs on Windows become VERY obvious in the Linux port and vice versa, and thus get fixed. So even the Windows gamers will win in all of this.
ryan c. gordon— Quoted in, "Chat with Ryan Gordon" Chrono's Pad (2001-02-11)
Wherever there are qualities there are likewise quantities, but not always vice versa.
johannes kepler— Vol. VIII, p. 47ff.
There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag — and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty — and vice versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.
doris lessing— Introduction (1971)
I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
Alexander Pope— Preface
A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa.
Stephen Potter— One-Upmanship (1952) ch. 14
— On wine-tasting.
It is the rate of investment which governs the rate of saving, and not vice versa.
joan robinson— Chapter VIII, The General Theory of Employment, p. 66
a Yea might turn in to a Nae and vice versa if a sufficient quantity of wordage was applied. In other talk you argument out until you get the answer you want
leonard wibberley— pg 5 (The Mouse that Roared)
Quivis beatus, versa rota fortunæ, ante vesperum potest esse miserrimus.
— Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.
— Ammianus Marcellinus, Historia, XXVI. 8.
Quand le despotisme est dans les lois, la liberté se trouve dans les mœurs, et vice versa.
honoré de balzac— When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
One would think that the record of already existing regulatory agencies is sufficiently eloquent in showing that it is Big Business that does the regulating rather than vice versa .
paul a. baran— Foreword To the 1962 Printing, p. xiv
Principles You can't say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
richard feynman— note (c. 1948), quoted in Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992) by James Gleick, p. 5 (repeated p. 283)
The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa.
johann georg hamann— Sämtliche Werken, ed. Josef Nadler (1949-1957), vol. III, p. 40
The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. ... The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay of the June woods is in itself proof that dead trees are transmuted into living animals, and vice versa.
aldo leopold— “November: A Mighty Fortress”, p. 77
Marx, like Rousseau before him, believed that men are good and made bad only by bad social systems. Unlike Rousseau, he believed that these systems arise from historical necessity. It occurred neither to Marx nor to Rousseau-as it did to Madison -that bad men corrupt good systems just as often as vice versa.
karl marx— Ernest Van Den Haag, ** Ernest Van Den Haag, Reason Papers Vol. 26 (Summer 2000), pp. 39-62
A depraved culture supports a depraved politics and vice versa.
ilana mercer— “Famously Rear-Ended Reality Stars,” Barely a Blog, December 17, 2011.
Andrej’s mind, like any sane human’s … was a constantly convulsing dialectical unity of consciousness and subconsciousness, the battening down and channelling of dreams and desires, the recurring re-creation of the subliminal by the contradictory, the rational-capricious ego. And vice versa. The interaction of levels of consciousness into an unstable and permanently self-renewing whole.
china miéville— p. 553 (Perdido Street Station (2000))
There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in England, and vice versa . Perhaps the fundamental difference is that beneath a tropical sun individuality seems less distinct and the loss of it less important.
george orwell— Review of Indian Mosaic by Mark Channing, in The Listener (15 July 1936)
It’s the problem with politics. Your enemies are often your allies. And vice versa.
— Chapter 19 (p. 194) (Leviathan Wakes (2011))
The trend has been established before the news is published, and in bull markets bear items are ignored and bull news exaggerated, and vice versa.
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.
— Sargent Shriver in: Sargent Shriver: A Candid Portrait, Farrar, Strauss, 1964, p.29
It is the rate of investment which governs the rate of saving, and not vice versa .
— Joan Robinson (1966) An Essay on Marxian Economics (Second Edition) Chapter VIII, The General Theory of Employment, p. 66
A depraved culture supports a depraved politics and vice versa.
— “Famously Rear-Ended Reality Stars,” Barely a Blog, December 17, 2011.
I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, preface (1717).
The more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the measurement of momentum, and vice versa.
— Werner Heisenberg Initial statement of the Uncertainty principle in "Über den anschaulichen Inhalt der quantentheoretischen Kinematik und Mechanik" in Zeitschrift für Physik, 43 (1927)
Saying “the mathematics of uncertainty” is like saying “the chastity of sex” what is mathematized is no longer uncertain, and vice versa.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb , The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
— Alan Perlis, "Epigrams on Programming"
