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-500 AD·Ephesus, Turkey

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

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When people see things as beautiful, ugliness is created. When people see things as good, evil is created. Being and non-being produce each other. Difficult and easy complement each other. Long and short contrast each other. High and low rest upon each other.

William Blake·1790

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

Benjamin Franklin·1783

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

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