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  • As the no-nonsense head of the department, actor Vlad Ivanov (best known for his performance in the Romanian abortion drama4 Months, 3 weeks, and 2 Days) corners Cristi left-and-right with “dialetic” prowess like a disgruntled boxer.

    Weekend Weirdness Review: Police, Adjective (A Superb Dark Comedy About the Absurdity of a Pot Bust) | /Film 2010

  • It is an analogy very in keeping with the the dialetic principle Marx pushed in the German ideology.

    Give me the opportunity my parents had 2008

  • The materialist dialetic by definition results in authoritarian control of production and with it material life.

    The world has gone mad 2007

  • The terrible battle now being waged by the corporation against human freedom and progress is not born out of a natural dialetic and does not present possibilities of new progressive syntheses.

    Firedoglake » Meet the New Boss… 2006

  • This does not mean a more liberal, more opportunist, or more dialetic interpretation of ideas.

    30TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS 1ST SPEECH 1989

  • This is a revolutionary and dialetic doctrine, not a philosophical doctrine.

    PURSC CENTRAL COMMITT PRESENTATION 1965

  • These problems must be viewed from a dialetic angle and not as part of a fixed posture.

    CASTRO DEFINES THE THEORY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTIO 1963

  • So that when President Truman, in his message to Congress, said, that "it is the beneficent tradition of the American people never to allow differences on politics to influence any decision connected with human welfare and human suffering", I think he was speaking, not in the dialetic Party manner but in the universal language of American kindness that unites members of all parties.

    American Foreign Policy 1951

  • We must emerge from this empty dialetic, to arrive at a true and living God.

    Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850

  • Thus, when practical reason cultivates itself, there insensibly arises in it a dialetic which forces it to seek aid in philosophy, just as happens to it in its theoretic use; and in this case, therefore, as well as in the other, it will find rest nowhere but in a thorough critical examination of our reason.

    FIRST SECTION 1785

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