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• When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Encouragement, Trying, Encounters

  Saint Francis (de Sales) (1953). “Spiritual maxims”

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• Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it.

  Walt Whitman

  Math, Leaves Of Grass, Bears

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• Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Thinking, Views, Hands

  "Khrushchev Remembers; the Last Testament, Volume 2". Book by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Strobe Talbott (Little, Brown), p. 415, 1974.

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• Good morning is a contradiction of terms.

  Jim Davis

  Good Morning, Monday, Good Day

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• Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Appreciate, Hybridity, World

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• In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular case, and the facility that appears to be afforded, either of explanation or contradiction. No person is to be required to explain or contradict, until enough has been proved to warrant a reasonable and just conclusion against him, in the absence of explanation or contradiction.

  Tony Abbott

  Drawing, Facts, Absence

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• I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Overcoming, Impossible, Accepting

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• There is only one inborn erroneous notion ... that we exist in order to be happy ... So long as we persist in this inborn error ... the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence ... hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of ... disappointment.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Disappointment, Errors, Elderly

  "The World as Will and Representation" by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. II, (1819; 1844; 1859).

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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.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Mirrors, Light, Ideas

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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.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Civilization, People, Dawn

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

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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.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Walking Away, Heaven, Hell

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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.

  Freda Adler

  Change, Heart, Men

  "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler, 1975.

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• Avoid contradiction. Clear institutional identity helps give you the competitive edge.

  Marty Sklar

  Giving, Identity, Helping

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• I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

  Elia Kazan

  Self, Doubt, Suffering

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• Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of encouraging laws that are not in contradiction with the Commandments comes within the mission of the Church.

  Karl Lehmann

  Christian, Responsibility, Law

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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.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Resurrection, Crosses

  Paul Ricoeur (2005). “The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations”, p.405, A&C Black

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• After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Would Be, Ugly

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.88, Vintage

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• The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

  Winston Churchill

  Fear, Sometimes, Modern

  Winston Churchill (1990). “A History of the English-speaking Peoples: The birth of Britain”

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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.

  David Hume

  Selfless, Sun, Tomorrow

  David Hume (2016). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book”, p.19, VM eBooks

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• How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Believe, Rebellious, Contradicting

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• I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Shoes, Pants, Hats

  "Charlie Chaplin and the Tramp: the birth of a hero" by Pamela Hutchinson, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2014.

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• If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Murder, Conversation, Tricks

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.134, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  Music, New Orleans, Years

  1938 In Downbeat, Aug.

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• There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.

  Alan Watts

  Believe, Trying, Peculiar

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• The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Mind, Tests

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