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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.

  George Santayana

  World, Moments, Pretending

  George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• When we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life that should make any man contradict the dictates of his conscience, the principles of justice, the laws of religion, and of God?

  William Wilberforce

  Men, Thinking, Law

  "On the Horrors of the Slave Trade". Speech delivered in the House of Commons, May 12, 1789.

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• Wise men are not wise at all times.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.364

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• All concord's born of contraries.

  Ben Jonson

  Born, Contrary

  Ben Jonson (1756). “Works: Collated with all the former editions, and corrected with notes critical and explanatory”, p.410

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• Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression "individual rights"? is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today's intellectual chaos). But the expression "collective rights"? is a contradiction in terms.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Expression, Rights

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.385, Penguin

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• We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ignorance, Science, Order

  "Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations". Book by Carl C. Gaither, January 8, 2008.

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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.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Courage, Veterans Day, Strong

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

  Benjamin Franklin

  People, Doctrine, Heard

  Andrew Carnegie, Benjamin Franklin (2015). “The ABC of Money: Including The Way to Wealth and The Gospel of Wealth”, p.76, Cosimo Classics

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• Life is never free of contradictions

  Manmohan Singh

  Motivational, Motivation, Life Is

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• Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.

  Trofim Lysenko

  Philosophy, Teaching, Development

  Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1948). “Soviet Biology: Report to the Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences”

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• What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem.

  Donald Sutherland

  Hate, People, Growth

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• Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.

  Richard Savage

  Sex, Fiction, Whim

  Richard Savage, Thomas Park (1807). “The Poetical Works of Richard Savage: Collated with the Best Editions:”, p.129

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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.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Doe, Modern

  Herbert Read (1971). “The Philosophy of Modern Art: Collected Essays”, Books for Libraries

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• Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

  Fernand Braudel

  Inspirational, Motivational, History

  Fernand Braudel (1982). “On History”, p.16, University of Chicago Press

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• In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

  L. Sprague de Camp

  Writing, Character, Story Writers

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• I now add, farther, that the apostles 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.

  Jonathan Mayhew

  People, Office, Design

  Jonathan Mayhew (1969). “Sermons: Seven Sermons: A Discourse, Concerning the Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers. The Snare Broken”

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• Wizard's Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.

  Terry Goodkind

  Reality, Wizards, Can Not

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Chainfire”, p.404, Head of Zeus

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• To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.

  Sally Schneider

  Book, Writing, Spontaneity

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• Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

  Thomas Paine

  New Testament, Absurdity, Blasphemy

  Thomas Paine (1826). “An examination of the passages in the New Testament quoted from the Old and called prophecies concerning Jesus Christ. To which is prefixed, An essay on dreams. Also an appendix”, p.34

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• Woman's at best a contradiction still.

  Alexander Pope

  Women, Stills

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To a Lady' (1735) l. 270

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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.

  Alexander Kluge

  Book, Writing, Television

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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.

  Ayn Rand

  Thinking, Atlas, Literature

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.152, Hamilton Books

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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.

  Ron Paul

  Freedom, Government, Society

  The Republicans' First Presidential Candidates Debate, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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• I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

  Michelle Shocked

  Thinking, People, Painting

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• Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Peace, Crazy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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