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opposites walks setting
Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society. Richard Dawkins
opposites funny-things envy
The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you. Robert M. Pirsig
opposites differences judging
The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced. Virginia Woolf
opposites water gold
If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things. Rebecca Solnit
opposites telling-the-truth
In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite. Nelson Eddy
opposites age becoming
I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry. Nawal El Saadawi
opposites creative synthesis
But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony. Martin Luther King, Jr.
opposites temptation satan
The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods. R. C. Sproul
opposites impossible
The opposite of nature is impossible. R. Buckminster Fuller
evil harry interact learn
Just like Harry you have to learn your way around. You have to go to classes, learn spells, and interact with evil counterparts. David Lee
evil good men needed prosper
The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke
evil good man necessary
It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.
evil hated sit
I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked. Bible Bible
evil mind virtue
He who has really set his mind on virtue will do no evil. Confucius
evil good-and-evil phenomenon
Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon. Richard John Neuhaus
evil deeds stills
This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
evil consciousness
No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong. Samuel Johnson
evil grows concealment
Evil is nourished and grows by concealment. Virgil
facts honest kids open smarter
Kids now are smarter than we were. They want the facts. They want to know what's happening. That's why being open and honest with them is so important.
facts millions
The sum of a million facts is not the truth. William Manchester
facts argument cases
The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument. Woodrow Wilson
facts lapses judgment
I did have a relationship with Ms Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible. William J. Clinton
facts dip add
Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them. William James
facts use theory
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
facts enough ifs
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
facts principles adequacy
The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power.
facts
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.