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«The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.»
Author: Andy Warhol
(Artist)
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Opposites
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attractions, exciting, opposites, The Attractions
«Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.»
«Two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are obviously absurd, and profound truths, recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.»
Author: Niels Bohr
(Physicist)
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obviously, opposites, profound, recognized, sorts, trivialities, triviality
«Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you»
«Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
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absent, disappearance, disappearances, jeopardy, opposites
«The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
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Christianity
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arrogance, Christian Churches, hostile, humility, in common, in name, opposites, penitence, rigidity, submissiveness, The Christian, usurpation, utterly
«Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, or opposites at all without opposites»
«The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.»
«Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.»
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