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in the other direction

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If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming. Charles Barkley

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution in the name of public safety, after 2008, authorities went in the other direction. Matt Taibbi

Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, its a quiet thing. At least for me it was. Ben Vereen

Following the free also works in the other direction. If one way to increase product value is to make products free, then many things now free may contain potential value not yet perceived. Kevin Kelly (editor)

He spent the whole time sitting on a log in the woodshed, sometimes starting straight ahead with the fixity of a blind man who knows that even if he turns his head in the other direction he will still not see anything. José Saramago

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