"Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change."
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""We must learn that the electric Universe of motion is divided into wave cycles which are equally divided into opposite expressions""
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"Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war."
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"If civilization has an opposite, it is war."
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"To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite."
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"I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love."
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"My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining that we know anything about either spirit or matter."
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"In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite."
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"When somebody tells you they're not very smart, they're saying exactly the opposite."
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"We all know those who draw their boundaries carefully and say, "I'm only human. Nobody's perfect. I accept my limitations." And we know others who take an opposite view and say, "I can do anything I choose to do. It is in my power to change the world." And those are the ones who most often change the world."
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"I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite."
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"This proletarianization of the lower salaried bourgeoisie is accompanied by an excess in the opposite direction: the irrationally high pay of top managers and bankers, a level of remuneration that is economically irrational since, as investigations in the US have demonstrated, it tends to be inversely proportional to the company's success."
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"Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites?"
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"We were totally opposite - me coming from the West Coast and a junior college, and him [ Christopher Reeve] from the hard-core Ivy League. He used to be the studly studly of all studlies, and I was the little fool ferret boy."
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"Whoever is loved is beautiful, but the opposite is not true, that whoever is beautiful is loved."
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"Hate and love are very similar emotions. The opposite of love is you don't care."
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"Within every adversity is an equal and opposite benefit."
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"When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder."
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"The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder."
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"Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances."
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