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#contradictions

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I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.


Rod Stewart


#contradictions #i #i am #man #suppose

The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being.


Madeleine L'Engle


#science

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

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

Double standards are inspiration to men of letters, but they are apt to be fatal to politicians.


Henry Adams


#paradox #education

The Tausennigan Ob'enn warlords look like cuddly teddy-bears? Yes, they do, and they'd cheerfully exterminate your entire race for making that observation! I guess that explains their rich military history, then. -Ennesbey & Petey


Howard Tayler


#contradictions #cuddly #humour #military #overreaction

why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact contradiction to what we really want? we are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs.


Marian Keyes


#hurt #love #love

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.


Michael Haneke


#close #closer #contradictions #dream #dream world

Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?


Nikita Khrushchev


#between #contradictions #daydream #diametrically #get

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.


Harrison Birtwistle


#built-in #contradictions #different #different angles #many






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