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Antimetabole is a rhetorical device in which words or phrases are repeated and reversed in grammatical structure.
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"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." - John F. Kennedy
"When the going gets tough, the tough get going." - Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. (and others)
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair." - The Witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth
"Eat to live, not live to eat." - Socrates
"All for one, and one for all." - The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)
"It's not the men in my life that count—it's the life in my men." - Mae West
"Mankind must put an end to war—or war will put an end to mankind." - John F. Kennedy
"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock. The rock landed on us." - Malcolm X
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty." - John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
"The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath." - Mark 2:27
"It is not even the beginning of the end but is perhaps, the end of the beginning." - Winston Churchill
"Human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights." - Hillary Rodham Clinton
"East and West do not mistrust each other because we are armed; we are armed because we mistrust each other." - Ronald Reagan
"All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is crime." - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”