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symmetry
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    So the first thing the morpho software did was take each side of your face and double it, like holding a mirror right down the middle, creating two examples of perfect symmetry.  (source)
    symmetry = exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing plane
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    I know a little of the principle of design, and I know this thing was not arranged on any laws of radiation, or alternation, or repetition, or symmetry, or anything else that I ever heard of.  (source)
    symmetry = balance among the parts of something
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    In photos from this period I'm struck by the symmetry: I look like everyone else.†  (source)
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    He read books on calculus and logarithmic algebra and loved what he called the poetry and symmetry of math.†  (source)
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    You admire the fluid symmetries of troops on the move, the harmonies of sound and shape and proportion, the great sheets of metal-fire streaming down from a gunship, the illumination rounds, the white phosphorus, the purply orange glow of napalm, the rocket's red glare.†  (source)
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    Ordinarily, there was a certain symmetry, a military neatness to the handicaps issued to strong people, but Harrison looked like a walking junkyard.†  (source)
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    If I've learned anything in Kabul, it is that human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.†  (source)
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    Then by the slightest turn of the wrist, the shards begin to shift and settle into a new configuration—a configuration with its own symmetry of shapes, its own intricacy of colors, its own hints of design.†  (source)
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    While it was a beautiful body, with all the right prominences, curves, continuities and symmetries, there was something a little strange about it—nothing visibly missing and not so much deficient as reassembled.†  (source)
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    When Mr. Early, who was Marley's Ghost, began to hack and sniffle, Dan confided to me that it would be perfect symmetry—for the play—if all the ghosts came down with something.†  (source)
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    It publishes itself in creatures, reaching from particles and spicula, through transformation on transformation to the highest symmetries, arriving at consummate results without a shock or a leap.†  (source)
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    Nature demands symmetry.†  (source)
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    The room, the table, the Baron, a pair of terrified eyes—blue within blue, the eyes—all compressed around him in ruined symmetry.†  (source)
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