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• When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate to make use of such astounding contradictions as occur in history through some extraordinary accident or twist of psychology .

  Bill Vaughan

  Psychology, Twists, Novelists

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• Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting of reading books, attending meetings, asking questions. But entrance requires much bolder action. It requires one to enter into himself, to uncover hidden motives, to see contradictions, and to realize his actual power for self-change.

  Vernon Howard

  Motivational, Book, Reading

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• He must also know evil, hate and bigotry as real phenomena, but he must see love as the greater force. He must not doubt this even for a moment or he is lost. His only salvation is to dedicate himself to love, in the same fashion as Gandhi did to militant nonviolence, as Socrates to truth, as Jesus did to love and as More did to integrity. Only then will he have the strength to combat the forces of doubt, confusion and contradiction. He can depend upon no on or no thing for reinforcement and assurance but himself.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Fashion, Jesus

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• To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Men, Evangelical

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• Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all the contradictions within, and lets the reader draw his own conclusions.

  Steven Saylor

  Men, Poet, Surface

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• The Christian is a [person] of joy... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has done Christianity more harm than its connection with black clothes and long faces.

  William Barclay

  Christian, Religious, Clothes

  William Barclay (2000). “Growing in Christian Faith: A Book of Daily Readings”, p.13, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

  Ayn Rand

  Government, Law, Competition

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.100, Penguin

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• The term 'just war' is an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with evil, tyranny and oppression without killing huge numbers of people.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Numbers, People

  Howard Zinn (2011). “Terrorism and War”, p.19, Seven Stories Press

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• I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect, and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity, and inequality, even passion and opportunity.

  Frank Gehry

  Passion, Opportunity, Trying

  Casey C. M. Mathewson, Frank O. Gehry (2007). “Frank O. Gehry: Selected Works : 1969 to Today”, Firefly Books Limited

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• A healing journey into the inner conflicts and contradictions that separate spirit from self.

  Armand DiMele

  Healing, Journey, Self

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• One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we're all one but when a true bigot comes around tell him we're all different. It's usually the case that neither side is correct. One might have the right to do something, anything, but sure enough, that doesn't mean it's right and a benefit to other people.

  Criss Jami

  Mean, Self, People

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• That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there is no such contradiction, for there is no such triumph. Russia is Marxist more or less as the Germans of the Holy Roman Empire were Romans.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Russia, Triumph, Would Be

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, Chapter XIV: Who Rules The World?, 1929.

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• A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Holy, Term

  "Hope, Despair and Memory". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1986.

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• Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others.

  Tryon Edwards

  Blame, Praise

  Tryon Edwards (1853). “The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors”, p.28

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• You can't take contradiction away. Part of the fun of it is that the contradiction never really quite goes away.

  Paul Schrader

  Fun

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.

  Chris Ofili

  Hip Hop, Enemy, Listening

  "Chris Ofili: 'I wander deep into the forest - where it's scary'" by Mark Hudson, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 25, 2010.

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• Praise is a contradiction of pride. Pride says 'looks at me,' but praise longs for people to see Jesus.

  Matt Redman

  Jesus, Pride, People

  Matt Redman (2001). “The Unquenchable Worshipper: Coming Back to the Heart of Worship”, p.89, Gospel Light Publications

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• We can only learn and advance with contradictions. The faithful inside should meet the doubtful. The doubtful should meet the faithful. Human slowly advances and becomes mature when he accepts his contradictions.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Faithful, Mature, Accepting

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• Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions.

  Genrich Altshuller

  Engineering, Resolution, Inventing

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• As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Wisdom, Giving Up, Surrender

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Changes in society are due chiefly to the development of the internal contradictions in society, that is, the contradiction between the productive forces and the relations of production, the contradiction between classes and the contradiction between the old and the new; it is the development of these contradictions that pushes society forward and gives the impetu6 for the suppression of the old society by the new.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Class, Giving

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• The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking.

  Jeff Bezos

  Thinking, Ideas, Views

  "Some advice from Jeff Bezos" by Jason Fried, signalvnoise.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. The "sanity" of modern man is about as useful to him as the huge bulk and muscles of the dinosaur. If he were a little less sane, a little more doubtful, a little more aware of his absurdities and contradictions, perhaps there might be a possibility of his survival.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, People, Survival

  "Raids on the Unspeakable".

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• War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political groups, and it has existed ever since the emergence of private property and of classes.

  Mao Zedong

  Peace, War, Struggle

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.35, Lulu.com

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• We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls.

  Gregory Maguire

  Soul, Plot, Lapses

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