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“Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.”

War Type Cold Opposites Universal Ideology Appeals Cold War Putin Mystic Arches Motherland

Author:George Packer

“Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.”

Desire Example Sweet Cold Opposites Hot Bitter Dry Void Blunt

Book:The Complete Plato

Source: The Complete Plato

“The Mutakallemim... apply the term non-existence only to absolute non-existence, and not to absence of properties. A property and the absence of that property are considered by them as two opposites, they treat, e.g. , blindness and sight, death and life, in the same way as heat and cold. Therefore they say, without any qualification, non-existence does not require any agent, an agent is required when something is produced.”

Way Doe Two Term Existence Cold Opposites Treats Sight Absolutes Property Absence Agents Heat Life And Death Blindness Qualifications Non Existence Two Opposites Heat And Cold

Book:Guide for the perplexed

Source: Guide for the perplexed

“Yin and yang, male and female, strong and weak, rigid and tender, heaven and earth, light and darkness, thunder and lightning, cold and warmth, good and evil...the interplay of opposite principles constitutes the universe.”

“The desire of perfection became the ruling passion of their soul; and it is well known, that while reason embraces a cold mediocrity, our passions hurry us, with rapid violence, over the space which lies between the most opposite extremes.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today. Our prosperity is linked inextricably to the maintenance of a strong world economy, an open international trading system, and stable global financial markets.”

World Said Today Used Strong Economy Cold Opposites Financial International Caught Prosperity Used To Be Stable Linked Trading Maintenance Financial Markets World Economy

Author:Lawrence Summers

“Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.”

Thinking War Actors Heaven Cold Intellectual Opposites Strategy Sake Innocent Complexity Thinker Outsiders Cold War Naive Strategic Chimpanzees War Strategy Movie Actors Fooling Around

Author:Russell Baker

“For a long time I believed the opposite of passion was death. I was wrong. Passion and death are implicit, one in the other. Past the border of a fiery life lies the netherworld. I can trace this road, which took me through places so hot the very air burned the lungs. I did not turn back. I pressed on, and eventually passed over the border, beyond which lies a place that is wordless and cold, so cold that it, like mercury, burns a freezing blue flame.”

Long I Can Past Lying Turns Passion Air Cold Long Time Opposites Hot Blue Borders Flames Burned Lungs Fiery Mercury Implicit Freezing

Author:Marya Hornbacher

“The way I pictured it, all this grief would be like a winter night when you're standing outside. You'll warm up once you get used to the cold. Except after you've been out there for awhile, you feel the warmth draining out of you and you realize the opposite is happening; you're getting colder and colder, as the body heat you brought outside with you seeps out of your skin. Instead of getting used to it, you get weaker the longer you endure it.”

Way Feels Body Would Be Used Night Realizing Grief Cold Happenings Standing Skins Opposites Endure Winter Warm Heat Warmth Draining Winter Night Body Heat

Author:Rob Sheffield

“If the fall of man consists in the separation of god and the devil the serpent must have appeared out of the middle of the apple when Eve bit like the original worm in it, splitting it in half and sundering everything which was once one into a pair of opposites, so the world is Noah's ark on the sea of eternity containing all the endless pairs of things, irreconcilable and inseparable, and heat will always long for cold and the back for the front and smiles for tears and mutt for jeff and no for yes with the most unutterable nostalgia there is.”

Source: Diane Arbus: revelations

“I've been accused of being cold, snobbish, distant. Those who know me well know that I’m nothing of the sort. If anything, the opposite is true. But is it too much to ask to want to protect your private life, your inner feelings? Lots of things touch me and I don’t want to be indiscreet.”

Ifs Knows Want Wells Feelings Asks Too Much Cold Protect Opposites Know Me Accused Private Life Touch Me Inner Feelings Snobbish

Author:Grace Kelly

“A lot of people say I'm not very friendly, that I'm cold. But I'm just the opposite. I live a very simple life. I'm a normal person, very sensitive, very caring about those around me.”

People Persons Simple Cold Normal Opposites Caring Sensitive Friendly Simple Life

Author:Justine Henin