#contradict

I put the “now” in knowledge. Well, I will put it there, probably tomorrow or tomorrow’s tomorrow.
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— Jarod Kintz

#knowledge #now #procrastination #tomorrow #procrastination

I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#contradiction #humor #humor

All those religions--they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ways to help people to be brave enough to laugh even though they know they are dying. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#contradictions #life-and-death #religions #death

You are the most ludicrous excuse for a man I've ever known - but there isn't a centimetre of you that I don't think is perfect. ↗

— Lucy Robinson

#ludicrous-excuse-of-a-man #perfection #love

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true. ↗

— John Astin

#background #basically #blood #contradicts #dad

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it. ↗

— Eric Hobsbawm

#contradictions #historians #justifies #makes #nation

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

#conforming #contradict #forced #i #my own

A single original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings ↗

— Diogenes of Sinope

#humor #humor

There is only one hopeful suggestion that I can give you: By the essence and nature of existence, contradictions cannot exist. If you find it inconceivable that an inventor of genius should be abandoned among ruins, and that a philosopher should wish to work as a cook in a diner--check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#existence #philosophy #nature

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#consider #contradict #granted #nor #read