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That all opposites—such as mass and energy, subject and object, life and death—are so much each othe...

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Ken WilberNo Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth

Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of...

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Sometimes opposites attract, or so they say, but Paloma and Rocío were like arroz and mangú: they di...

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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confi...

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If you will look about you (which most people won't do)," says Sergeant Cuff, "you will see that the...

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A beam or pillar can be used to batter down a city wall, but it is no good for stopping up a little ...

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Energetically speaking, antimatter is the mirror image of matter, so the two instantly cancel each o...

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God created… light anddark, heaven and hell—science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big ...

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The basic principle of structural analysis, I was explaining, is that the terms of a symbolic system...

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David GraeberThe Utopia of Rules: On Technology

As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.

Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his s...

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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

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John SteinbeckTravels with Charley: In Search of America

All students of man and society who possess that first requisite for so difficult a study, a due sen...

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John Stuart MillAn Essay on Samuel Taylor Coleridge