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  • Some who preferred the clarity of science adhered to the ideas of Darwin, seeing at every turn the mark of natural selection; while others opted for Nietzsche and his eternal recurrence or Hegel and his dialectic—each system quite sensible, no doubt, when one had finally arrived at the one-thousandth page.†  (source)
  • It is anti-dialectical!†  (source)
  • Normally there was nothing she enjoyed more than a row with Miss Muffett, who was so thick one could say almost anything to him provided one was careful to maintain a grave and sorrowful countenance, but today she had no taste for dialectics.†  (source)
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  • So a dialectic is established between one kid with no boundaries and the other with nothing but.†  (source)
  • Dialectical materialism seemed to offer both a searchlight illuminating the dark night of racial oppression and a tool that could be used to end it.†  (source)
  • Under the circumstances, how could even the most committed racists among the faculty be diverted by the Professor's cunning dialectics?†  (source)
  • He is unable to think dialectically.†  (source)
  • One of the first to notice this was a French dialectician, Louis Gauchat, who studied changing pronunciations in the dialect of a small village in the Swiss Alps.†  (source)
  • And did not this animosity also play a role in the two dialecticians' attitude toward Pieter Peeperkorn?†  (source)
  • In Eisenstein you note that the camera angle is a kind of dialectic.†  (source)
  • His thesis that slavery might become national, although probably without factual foundation,'2 was a clever dialectical inversion of a challenge to the freedom of the common white man set forth by the most extreme Southern advocate of slavery.†  (source)
  • Don't ever kid yourself with too much dialectics.†  (source)
  • When we discuss something, we think dialectically.†  (source)
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