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The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.

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Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.

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In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

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But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my" thoughts and actions---were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that "I make them"; they arise of themselves in relation to circumstances. This is therefore to feel life, not as an encounter between subject and object, but as a polarized field where the contest of opposites has become the play of opposites.

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Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

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We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

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As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood--a circumstance at all times unpleasant.

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This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

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Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.

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Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

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In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

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Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.

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excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm afraid i'm becoming ridiculous

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I think it's fair to say that [Donald Trump] and I are sort of opposites in some ways.

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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.

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Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

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The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.

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Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may differ, the will of all is therefore not that of all: which is contradictory and opposite to liberty.

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To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.

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And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

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