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To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

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Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. ↗

— Tom Robbins

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There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. ↗

— William James

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Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. ↗

— George Santayana

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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

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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

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I am a man of contradictions, I suppose. ↗

— Rod Stewart

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In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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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

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Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are not against God. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

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