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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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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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Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique. ↗

— Lukas Foss

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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

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In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation. ↗

— Charles Lyell

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Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

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Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

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The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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