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• I like complicated women. I like women with strength and contradictions.

  Naomi Watts

  Complicated

  "Naomi Watts on acting 'The Impossible'". Interview with Lee Cowan, www.cbsnews.com. February 11, 2013.

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• It is no contradiction - the most important single thing we can do to stimulate investment in today's economy is to raise consumption by major reduction ofindividualincometaxrates.

  John F. Kennedy

  Important, Today, Investment

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• Until all students are faced by the tragedies, the contradictions and the stark questions of life, they cannot understand the need for redemption or God's redemptive action.

  Reuel Howe

  Tragedy, Needs, Redemption

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• The God who inspired the Bible is the same God who made the universe, Earth, and all life. This God is the very definition of truth; therefore nature's record will never contradict Scripture and vice versa. When a seeming contradiction confronts us, we can know with certainty we have either misunderstood (one, the other, or both revelations) or perhaps we haven't yet dug deploy enough. Whatever the case, we can embrace the opportunity to gain greater knowledge and appreciation for the Bible, for nature, and for the God who is responsible for both.

  Hugh Ross

  Appreciation, Opportunity, Misunderstood

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• Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Believe, Term

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• Beyond the futility of armed force, and ultimately more important, is the fact that war in our time inevitably results in the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. To put it more bluntly, war is terrorism. That is why a 'war on terrorism' is a contradiction in terms.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Numbers, People

  Howard Zinn (2007). “A Power Governments Cannot Suppress”, p.195, City Lights Books

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• The U.S. has always been a contradiction. It's always been a deeply protectionist, institutional place, where you're not allowed to smoke, and you're not allowed to do this, and you're not allowed to do that. And then, on the other hand, it's completely libertarian in a way. So it's got this weird mixture of being incredibly authoritarian and incredibly open at the same time.

  Liam Gillick

  Hands, Mixtures, Libertarian

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors, or sub oppressors. The very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradiction of the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped. Their ideal is to be men; but for them to be men is to be oppressors

  Paulo Freire

  Struggle, Men, Existential

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.45, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Epic, Race, Modern Journalism

  "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72". Book by Hunter S. Thompson, 1973.

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• God instructs the heart, not by ideas but by pains and contradictions.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Pain, Heart, Ideas

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• If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her? Humans are full of contradictions.

  Ai Yazawa

  Obsessed, Humans, Ifs

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• A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object imposed on me, an object for which the world provides the raw material and then steals it from me again, pulverized by events, scattered, broken, scored yet retaining its unity; how heavy it is and how inconsistent: this contradiction breeds many misunderstandings.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Hands, Broken, Unity

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• In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . .of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Expression, Silence

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions.

  Rajneesh

  Life Is, Existence, Contradictory

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• The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction to what our political and military leaders were telling us. They were straight forward documentary images. A powerful indictment of the war, of how cruel and unjust it was. When I finally decided what to do with my life, it was to follow in that tradition.

  James Nachtwey

  Powerful, Military, War

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• My mother was the tough-as-nails disciplinarian who showed very little to no emotion. My father, on the other hand, was a study in contradiction. He was the fire, hell, and brimstone preacher, while also being incredibly gentle and forward thinking. I identify with him a lot.

  Patricia Montandon

  Mother, Father, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My whole childhood was about being in the garden. It wasn't really a religious place to me. The love I felt there... was in contradiction with what I saw in the streets. It was a different world.

  Rula Jebreal

  Religious, Garden, Childhood

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Sound, Comedy, Term

  "Kristin Scott Thomas: 'It's the most amazing feeling of liberation'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2011.

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• When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.

  Carl Jung

  Opposites, Doe, Half

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• Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be there. I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it's really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to. It's sort of a contradiction, but that's how it works somehow.

  Bjork

  Country, Iceland, Healthy

  Interview with Mathias Augustyniak and Michaal Amzalag, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 21, 2009.

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• I think that in free societies, and we're constantly talking about living in free societies, aren't we, in contradiction with unhappy people who live in non-free societies, that the benefit, the dividend of living in a free society is that you say what you think.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Thinking, Talking, People

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Brands are faced with the daily challenge of massively scaling their outreach in order to build personal relationships. While this may seem like a contradiction in terms, it becomes much more possible when brands shift from push to pull dynamics in their marketing.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Order, Challenges, Marketing

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• I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals.

  Michel Onfray

  Atheist, Philosophy, Writing

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• There is the "you" that people see and then there is the "rest of you". Take some time and craft a picture of the "rest of you." This could be a drawing, in words, even a song. Just remember that the chances are good it will be full of paradox and contradictions.

  Brennan Manning

  Song, Drawing, People

  Brennan Manning (2009). “The Furious Longing of God”, p.40, David C Cook

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• Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm. Watch the people succumb To madness With ample cheer; Let them look askance at you And you askance reply. Be an outcast; Be pleased to walk alone (Uncool) Or line the crowded River beds With other impetuous Fools. Make a merry gathering On the bank Where thousands perished For brave hurt words They said. Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Qualified to live Among your dead.

  Alice Walker

  Hurt, Cheer, Rivers

  Alice Walker (2011). “Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990”, p.115, Hachette UK

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