He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.
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Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.
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We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.
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Unity can only come when there is better co-ordination and mutual understanding in the society; when there is no friction of thoughts and clash of ideologies. We should therefore follow the ideals established by the scholars and engage ourselves in virtuous deeds.
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A clash of doctrines is not a disaster--it is an opportunity.
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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art.
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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
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Wet century-wide trees Clash in surrounding starlessness above...
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The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
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God of justice, save the people From the clash of race and creed,...
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