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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth. ↗

— Roland Barthes

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it. ↗

— Alexander Cockburn

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All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things. ↗

— Robert Creeley

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I've come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren't comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It's a contradiction. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

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It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave. ↗

— Trudi Canavan

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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely. ↗

— J. L. Austin

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War is essential for peace ↗

— Ram Mohan

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[The laws of logic] were placed in our minds by the Creator during the act of creation. We speak because God has spoken. God is not the author of confusion, irrationality, or the absurd. Furthermore, his words are meant to be understood by his creatures, and a necessary condition for his creature's understanding of those words is that they are intelligible and not irrational. ↗

— R. C. Sproul

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Drugs don't really fix anything, except for everything. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

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