Paradox Quotes
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In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Erich Fromm
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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Paul Valery
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It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
Herbert Hoover
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This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises ...
Robert Penn Warren
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I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa
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So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
Winston Churchill
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I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa
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The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
Earl Warren
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The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
Earl Warren
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Life is a paradox, you`re damned if you do and damned if you don`t
Nancy Cartwright
Subject: Life Quotes :: Paradox QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Comedy really is a serious study, although it must not be taken seriously. That sounds like a paradox, but it is not. It is a serious study to learn characters; it is a hard study. But to make comedy a success there must be an ease, a spontaneity in the a...
Charlie Chaplin
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I`ll just take amusement at being a paradox.
Burgess Meredith
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The first actor who really blew me away was Paul Scofield in [the movie] A Man for All Seasons (1966). I`d never seen such integrity in acting, and it struck me as a fascinating paradox because acting is artifice. It can be argued to be entirely false. I ...
Colin Firth
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This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education.
Bill Owens
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The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.
Alfred Chan
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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Carl Rogers
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That`s the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn`t have those things we`d just be numb.
Kathy Mattea
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That`s a curious paradox that I don`t think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it`s not like you actually love getting up there and showing off.
Jacqueline McKenzie
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My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.
Mark Haddon
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Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.
John Fowles
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Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
Alex Garwood
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It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.
Alain Corre
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Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
Alex Garwood
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Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
Alex Garwood
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In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
Amit Axelrod
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I`m a jaded idealist. It`s a paradox, but that`s what ministry is all about, ... I wouldn`t say these things about Ironwood if I didn`t believe it.
Ann Summers
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He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.
Al Edwards
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He was a great thundering paradox of a man.
Andrew Preston
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
Alex Gruzen
Source: brainyquote.com
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After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.
Joy Page
