“Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.” Carl von Clausewitz” — Scott J Roberts Copy Share Image
Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man." — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas. — Max Planck Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of basically anything written about complicated, contradictory women. I'm drawn to them really quickly. — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
“The corporate world is contradictory to out-of-the-box concept as everything is communicated via inbox.” — Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma Copy Share Image
Trouble comes not because we have taken any wrong step but because we are in a complex and contradictory world. — T. B. Joshua Copy Share Image
I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
“All is like, all unlike; all is useful and harmful, eloquent and dumb, reasonable and unreasonable. And what people profess about individual… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
That's why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and… — Brian Baird Copy Share Image
“The paradox of life lies exactly in this: its resources are finite, but it itself is endless. Such a contradictory state of… — I.I. Gitelson Copy Share Image
[Identity liberalism] is about recognition and self-definition. It's narcissistic. It's isolating. It looks within. And it also makes two contradictory claims on… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
The further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life and the older you… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
When you talk about what you want and why you want it, there's usually less resistance within you than when you talk… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
When it happeneth that a man signifieth unto us two contradictory opinions whereof the one is clearly and directly signified, andthe other… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
One could think of a person who seems to have two opposing and contradictory sides to his personality; but it turns out… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
Ruth and I don't have a perfect marriage, but we have a great one. How can I say two things that seem… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“I was vaguely aware that same of those around me thought that this pairing of explorations was contradictory and I was headed… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
Illnesses which occur because of physical causes should be treated by doctors with medical remedies; those which are due to spiritual causes… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
If you want to do good research, it's important not to know too much. This almost sounds contradictory but really if you… — Ivar Giaever Copy Share Image
It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the… — Susan McClary Copy Share Image
There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
The reflection and experience of many years have led me to consider the holy writings not only as the most authentic and… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
“Now, if the writers of these four books [Gospels] had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi, (for it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The tangible and factual components of reality along with the intangible strands of memory and imagination constitute the framework that houses our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
However, displayed right alongside all the Confederate flag paraphernalia is a bunch of American flag merch – American flag place mats, patriotic… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
The truth of literature and art has always been granted (if it was granted at all) as one of a "higher" order,… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
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