“Say the opposite, say the opposite, say the same thing, say the same thing. (song/refrain on "The Show").”
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Source: The Managerial Revolution, 1941, p. 57; Cited in Fred Riggs (1970) "Introduction: Shifting Meanings of the Term 'Bureaucracy'"

“All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner”
Montaigne, Essais, liv. III, chap. viii.—Faugère
The Art of Persuasion
Context: All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art of Conversation http://books.google.com/books?id=iRBEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA452& pauses with so much care to make it understood that we must not judge of the capacity of a man by the excellence of a happy remark that we heard him make.... let us penetrate, says he, the mind from which it proceeds... it will oftenest be seen that he will be made to disavow it on the spot, and will be drawn very far from this better thought in which he does not believe, to plunge himself into another, quite base and ridiculous.

“It's simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.”

Source: Chronicles: Vol. One (2004), p. 220

“I hate saying the same thing over and over again.”
XII. 453–454 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?”
Source: A Farewell to Arms

“Almost any interesting work of art comes close to saying the opposite of what it really says.”
"What I Know About Writing (in no particular order)", as quoted in Michael Swanwick, "The Wolf in the Labyrinth", Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 2007
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