#diction

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil. ↗

— Dennis Weaver

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When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door. ↗

— Simone Weil

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Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit. ↗

— Judith Wright

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I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ↗

— Steven Wright

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If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know? ↗

— Steven Wright

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The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it. ↗

— Mao Zedong

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The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States. ↗

— Horace Gray

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Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

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For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

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