#diction

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#call #contradictions #new #new testament #religion

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#addictions #breaks #choose #down #going

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future. ↗

— Gary Ross

#change #complexity #contradiction #each #else

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#diction #fashioned #like #out #over

It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem. ↗

— Jim Ramstad

#against #chemical #congress #deal #discrimination

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#contradiction #contradictions #exist #facing #find

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved. ↗

— Herbert Read

#art #between #contradiction #democratic #does

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about. ↗

— Keith Richards

#addiction #i #know #should #something

Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#after #comes #dictionary #just #republican

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#concerned #dictionary #dregs #elitist #ideas