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I don't change, I'd rather people's note of contradictions.
Author:
Slim Shady - Eminem
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I'm everything you love and hate at the same time.
Author:
Slim Shady - Eminem
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In the rustle of my own reflections, solitude magnifies both the whisper of inner peace and the din of unanswered questions.
Author:
Emma Solaris
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The strongest souls are made of both fire and ice.
Author:
Luna Parker
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It is in the embrace of contradiction that creativity flourishes
Author:
Rachel Brown
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It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me during an investigation of the effect discovered by Kerr on light reflected by magnetic mirrors.
Author:
Pieter Zeeman
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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
Author:
Simone Weil
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There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter.
Author:
Alfred Wallace
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The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
Author:
Mao Tung
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The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
Author:
Benjamin Tucker
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To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.
Author:
Sally Schneider
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Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.
Author:
Richard Savage
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The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
Author:
George Santayana
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Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.
Author:
Paul Ricoeur
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The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction.
Author:
Godfrey Reggio
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It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.
Author:
Herbert Read
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
Author:
Ayn Rand
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Woman's at best a contradiction still.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.
Author:
Shimon Peres
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I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.
Author:
Ron Paul
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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.
Author:
Nursultan Nazarbayev
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Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
Author:
Malcolm Muggeridge
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I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.
Author:
Jonathan Mayhew
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Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
Author:
Groucho Marx
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Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working class.
Author:
Ernest Mandel
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Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.
Author:
Trofim Lysenko
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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.
Author:
Isidore Lautreamont
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We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.
Author:
Alexander Kluge
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There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the rest of the country, as well as all of us in the House, to give full moral support to our forces.
Author:
Charles Kennedy
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I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.
Author:
Elia Kazan
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Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.
Author:
Jim Jarmusch
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That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.
Author:
David Hume
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Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated.
Author:
John Hench
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There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions.
Author:
Dorothy Height
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But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.
Author:
Garrett Hardin
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Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are not against God.
Author:
Robert Grosseteste
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The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
Author:
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Greatness in language emerges not from verbosity, but from the careful wielding of each chosen word, transforming ideas into the cascade of thoughts we don't know we placed in ourselves.
Author:
Linnea Kingsforge
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Surrounded by trillions of pixels pulsing with life, sometimes the loudest silence comes from longing for touch rather than scrollable memories.
Author:
Mia Oppenheimer
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I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.
Author:
Kim Elizabeth
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Good morning is a contradiction of terms.
Author:
Jim Davis
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Author:
Gilbert Chesterton
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
Author:
Fidel Castro
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An unconscious consciousness is no more a contradiction in terms than an unseen case of seeing.
Author:
Franz Brentano
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Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
Author:
William Blake
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True elegance arises when our beliefs elegantly engage the complexities of discord and harmony.
Author:
Elanor Finch
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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
Author:
Georges Bataille
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
Author:
Roland Barthes
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This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.
Author:
Mikhail Bakunin
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There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.
Author:
Thomas Babington
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
Author:
J. Austin
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Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.
Author:
Roland Allen
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That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
Author:
Freda Adler
