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Philosophical literature3 quotes
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. — William Blake · 1793The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are borne through strife. — Heraclitus · 480 BCPower and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. — Hannah Arendt · 1969Comedy1 quote
If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right. — Jerry Seinfeld · 1994Comedy (TV)1 quote
If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right. — Jerry Seinfeld · 1994Sitcom1 quote
If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right. — Jerry Seinfeld · 1994