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> [The government can build institutional infrastructure to address the paradox of floods and calamities in some parts of the country, and water…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ram-nath-kovind/the-government-can-build-institutional-infrastructure-to-address-the/)

[Ram Nath Kovind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ram-nath-kovind/)

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> [“Paradoxism is not just another linguistic term or a literature device, but perhaps it is the definition of our post-postmodernism and metamodernism.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rao-umar-javed/paradoxism-is-not-just-another-linguistic-term-or-a-literature-device/)

[Rao Umar Javed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rao-umar-javed/)

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> [Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/water-is-fluid-soft-and-yielding-but-water-will-wear-away-rock-which/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [The paradox is that money never meant anything to me. And it still doesn't, except now as an occasion for regret in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-milch/the-paradox-is-that-money-never-meant-anything-to-me-and-it-still/)

[David Milch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-milch/)

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> [Periods of change are full of paradoxes. They're difficult but exciting, frightening but freeing. Letting go of old patterns that no longer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-thoele/periods-of-change-are-full-of-paradoxes-they-re-difficult-but/)

[Sue Thoele](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-thoele/)

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> [Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/though-we-talk-peace-we-wage-war-sometimes-we-even-wage-war-in-the/)

[Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/)

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> [A paradox arises: the only way to meaning in freedom is through boundaries. The only way that boundaries make any sense at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clark-moustakas/a-paradox-arises-the-only-way-to-meaning-in-freedom-is-through/)

[Clark Moustakas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clark-moustakas/)

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> [What I am anxious to see in Christian believers is a beautiful paradox. I want to see in them the joy of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aiden-wilson-tozer/what-i-am-anxious-to-see-in-christian-believers-is-a-beautiful/)

[Aiden Wilson Tozer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aiden-wilson-tozer/)

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> [“We only have one life (unless you’re a cat or a Buddhist) and it’s often dictated to us by what society tells…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-rowland/we-only-have-one-life-unless-you-re-a-cat-or-a-buddhist-and-it-s/)

[Ellen Rowland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-rowland/)

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> [A society, in the process of moving forward, often appears to be tearing itself apart. Certainly, an age of rapid change, such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/earl-warren/a-society-in-the-process-of-moving-forward-often-appears-to-be/)

[Earl Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/earl-warren/)

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> [Just in time for the renewal of the war debate in Congress, the University of Chicago Press has released The U.S. Army…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-l-ulin/just-in-time-for-the-renewal-of-the-war-debate-in-congress-the/)

[David L. Ulin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-l-ulin/)

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> [“There is a paradox at the heart of contemporary Girl Land, and this paradox makes the emotional experience of female adolescence more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caitlin-flanagan/there-is-a-paradox-at-the-heart-of-contemporary-girl-land-and-this/)

[Caitlin Flanagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caitlin-flanagan/)

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> [With a few exceptions like Kraftwerk, most great 20th century Western music is in some way American-based. And the great paradox of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-erickson/with-a-few-exceptions-like-kraftwerk-most-great-20th-century-western/)

[Steve Erickson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-erickson/)

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> [This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-penn-warren/this-is-not-remarkable-for-as-we-know-reality-is-not-a-function-of/)

[Robert Penn Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-penn-warren/)

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> [Ultimately, any character you write - no matter how fantastic or alien - is an extension of yourself. When our characters reflect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-m-dematteis/ultimately-any-character-you-write-no-matter-how-fantastic-or-alien/)

[J. M. DeMatteis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-m-dematteis/)

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> [In a state like Pennsylvania, the paradox is, to win, you have to get the conservative Democrats in the west, but you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-brabender/in-a-state-like-pennsylvania-the-paradox-is-to-win-you-have-to-get/)

[John Brabender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-brabender/)

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> [The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-primary-paradox-of-christianity-is-that-the-ordinary-condition-of/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

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> [Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-de-vries/rather-than-waste-precious-time-arguing-i-went-up-and-started-serving/)

[Peter De Vries](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-de-vries/)

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> [A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/china-mi-ville/a-city-like-london-was-always-going-to-be-a-paradox-the-best-of-it-so/)

[China Mieville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/china-mi-ville/)

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> [The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-jaspers/the-socratic-teacher-turns-his-students-away-from-himself-and-back/)

[Karl Jaspers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-jaspers/)

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> [The more I consider the condition of the white men, the more fixed becomes my opinion that, instead of gaining, they have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tomochichi/the-more-i-consider-the-condition-of-the-white-men-the-more-fixed/)

[Tomochichi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tomochichi/)

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> [“It’s a terrible paradox that we march toward a virtual Eden when there is still time to reverse pollution and find it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorin-morgan-richards/it-s-a-terrible-paradox-that-we-march-toward-a-virtual-eden-when/)

[Lorin Morgan-Richards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorin-morgan-richards/)

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> [. . . in one sense a foundation is a security blanket: If you meticulously follow the rules laid down, no paradoxes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saunders-mac-lane/in-one-sense-a-foundation-is-a-security-blanket-if-you-meticulously/)

[Saunders Mac Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saunders-mac-lane/)

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> [If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cowper-powys/if-by-the-time-we-re-sixty-we-haven-t-learned-what-a-knot-of-paradox/)

[John Cowper Powys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-cowper-powys/)

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> [I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-walpole/i-look-upon-paradoxes-as-the-impotent-efforts-of-men-who-not-having/)

[Horace Walpole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-walpole/)

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> [One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-foster-wallace/one-paradox-of-professional-writing-is-that-books-written-solely-for/)

[David Foster Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-foster-wallace/)

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> [I've always tried to write California history as American history. The paradox is that New England history is by definition national history,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-starr/i-ve-always-tried-to-write-california-history-as-american-history-the/)

[Kevin Starr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-starr/)

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> [There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lukas-foss/there-is-another-interesting-paradox-here-by-immersing-ourselves-in/)

[Lukas Foss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lukas-foss/)

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> [Its such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you dont want to be bourgeois, but you want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-colen/its-such-a-paradox-you-come-from-this-place-where-you-want-fame-you/)

[Dan Colen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-colen/)

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> [“The paradox of identity liberalism is that it paralyzes the capacity to think and act in a way that would actually accomplish…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-lilla/the-paradox-of-identity-liberalism-is-that-it-paralyzes-the-capacity/)

[Mark Lilla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-lilla/)

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> [I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-simmons/i-m-a-real-paradox-because-i-m-a-very-serious-person-and-i-take-my/)

[Richard Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-simmons/)

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> [By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-markham/by-a-divine-paradox-wherever-there-is-one-slave-there-are-two-so-in/)

[Edwin Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-markham/)

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> [Life's a paradox. What you want, you don't get; what you get, you don't enjoy; what you enjoy isn't permanent; what is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/life-s-a-paradox-what-you-want-you-don-t-get-what-you-get-you-don-t/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [There's a thing that if you - somebody in faith is always troubled by doubt, and somebody by doubt is always wanted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-hopkins/there-s-a-thing-that-if-you-somebody-in-faith-is-always-troubled-by/)

[Anthony Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-hopkins/)

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> [“What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-agyemang-yeboah/what-a-paradox-it-is-the-sane-causes-more-problems-than-the-insane-it/)

[Ernest Agyemang Yeboah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-agyemang-yeboah/)

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> [“He was a paradox, a walking contradiction. How he could perform such a violent act without hesitation in one moment and be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bella-forrest/he-was-a-paradox-a-walking-contradiction-how-he-could-perform-such-a/)

[Bella Forrest](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bella-forrest/)

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> [Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-kahn/failures-of-perspective-in-decision-making-can-be-due-to-aspects-of/)

[Herman Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-kahn/)

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> [The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sydney-j-harris/the-paradox-of-friendship-is-that-it-is-both-the-strongest-thing-in/)

[Sydney J. Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sydney-j-harris/)

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> [It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ruskin/it-seems-a-fantastic-paradox-but-it-is-nevertheless-a-most-important/)

[John Ruskin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-ruskin/)

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> [“Yeah but Father, is that what you meant by God being a paradox? How he was so pleased to get a chance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-sladek/yeah-but-father-is-that-what-you-meant-by-god-being-a-paradox-how-he/)

[John Sladek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-sladek/)

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