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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
scales regions extravagant
Everything is on a reduced scale here in the Polar regions; we can't afford to be extravagant. Roald Amundsen
scales
Why don't we scale up those things that do work. Tavis Smiley
scales teach
Do things that won't scale; it will teach you. Brian Chesky
scales barbarism human-life
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before Ron Silver
scales consumed
Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed. David Eagleman
scales stories
If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will. David Christian
feathers
Hope is a thing with feathers Emily Dickinson
feathers indigenous mostly species stuffed
PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
feathers
Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule. George Herbert