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> [The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-peters/the-great-paradox-of-the-21st-century-is-that-in-this-age-of-powerful/)

[Ralph Peters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-peters/)

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> [“But maybe that was the trick—to accept the responsibility and forgo the control? To love without expectation? A paradox for sure, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-ozeki/but-maybe-that-was-the-trick-to-accept-the-responsibility-and-forgo/)

[Ruth Ozeki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-ozeki/)

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> [But I didn't think about this beforehand. I just went ahead and did it, and that's the way it turned out. So…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-reid/but-i-didn-t-think-about-this-beforehand-i-just-went-ahead-and-did-it/)

[Bill Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-reid/)

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> [“More I try to straighten my life, more I'm overcome with the paradox I am. Once the sea attains its vastness, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abhijit-naskar/more-i-try-to-straighten-my-life-more-i-m-overcome-with-the-paradox-i/)

[Abhijit Naskar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abhijit-naskar/)

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> [“Is it a paradox to firmly state in one breath that you don't believe in an almighty, and in that same instance,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-w-wilkin/is-it-a-paradox-to-firmly-state-in-one-breath-that-you-don-t-believe/)

[D W Wilkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-w-wilkin/)

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> [There's an element of paradox there - that at least you know where you stand with the fundamentalists. I mean, they're absolutely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/there-s-an-element-of-paradox-there-that-at-least-you-know-where-you/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-d-richardson/part-of-the-power-of-emerson-s-individualism-is-his-insistence-at/)

[Robert D. Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-d-richardson/)

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> [A cat is a purring parcel of paradox, a cunning collection of contradictions. A cat is lazy and busy, dainty and savage,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonore-fleischer/a-cat-is-a-purring-parcel-of-paradox-a-cunning-collection-of/)

[Leonore Fleischer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonore-fleischer/)

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> [You may remember the paradox of time we mentioned earlier: Whatever you do takes time, and yet it is always now. So…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/you-may-remember-the-paradox-of-time-we-mentioned-earlier-whatever/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

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> [Every good teacher and every good parent has somehow learned to negotiate the paradox of freedom and discipline. We want our children…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/every-good-teacher-and-every-good-parent-has-somehow-learned-to/)

[Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/)

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> [“It matters./It doesn’t matter. Build space in your head for this paradox. Build as much space for it as you can. Build…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/it-matters-it-doesn-t-matter-build-space-in-your-head-for-this/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/reality-is-contradictory-and-it-s-paradoxical-if-there-s-any-one-word/)

[Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/)

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> [When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-kasner/when-the-mathematician-says-that-such-and-such-a-proposition-is-true/)

[Edward Kasner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-kasner/)

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> [“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton/i-never-use-paradox-the-statements-i-make-are-wearisome-and-obvious/)

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

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> [“This wavering paradox is a pillar of the outlaw stance. A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hunter-s-thompson/this-wavering-paradox-is-a-pillar-of-the-outlaw-stance-a-man-who-has/)

[Hunter S. Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hunter-s-thompson/)

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> [“Suppose there is a group of friends who create a club where the rule is to “not follow any rules.” However, “do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-carter/suppose-there-is-a-group-of-friends-who-create-a-club-where-the-rule/)

[Lucy Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-carter/)

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> [There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/twyla-tharp/there-s-a-paradox-in-the-notion-that-creativity-should-be-a-habit-we/)

[Twyla Tharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/twyla-tharp/)

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> [The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/the-goal-i-suppose-any-fiction-writer-has-no-matter-what-your-subject/)

[Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/)

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> [One of life's intriguing paradoxes is that hierarchical social order makes cheap rents and outré artists' colonies possible. Raffish bohemian neighborhoods flourished…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florence-king/one-of-life-s-intriguing-paradoxes-is-that-hierarchical-social-order/)

[Florence King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florence-king/)

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> [Man feels the urge to run up against the limits of language. Think for example of the astonishment that anything at all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/man-feels-the-urge-to-run-up-against-the-limits-of-language-think-for/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [“The kingdom of God is an upside-down kingdom. It beckons us to gamble all, to trust radically, to come and die so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-wytsma/the-kingdom-of-god-is-an-upside-down-kingdom-it-beckons-us-to-gamble/)

[Ken Wytsma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-wytsma/)

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> [I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/i-was-always-aware-reading-chesterton-that-there-was-someone-writing-2/)

[Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/)

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> [“I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shannon-l-alder/i-no-longer-follow-the-voices-of-the-sane-i-follow-the-ill-because/)

[Shannon L. Alder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shannon-l-alder/)

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> [I think in a way the great irony or paradox about America is that it makes it so hard for the sensitive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hubert-selby-jr/i-think-in-a-way-the-great-irony-or-paradox-about-america-is-that-it/)

[Hubert Selby, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hubert-selby-jr/)

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> [“This is the paradox presented by every general library: that if, to a lesser or greater extent, it intends to accumulate and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/this-is-the-paradox-presented-by-every-general-library-that-if-to-a/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [Here's the pay paradox that Why Men Earn More explains: Men earn more money, therefore men have more power; and men earn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-farrell/here-s-the-pay-paradox-that-why-men-earn-more-explains-men-earn-more/)

[Warren Farrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-farrell/)

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> [“What a mystery we are to ourselves, even as we go on, learning more, sorting it out a little. The further on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-maguire/what-a-mystery-we-are-to-ourselves-even-as-we-go-on-learning-more/)

[Gregory Maguire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-maguire/)

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> [“I moved through the world like a team of runaway horses in the hands of an obsessed and demented driver. But I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bohumil-hrabal/i-moved-through-the-world-like-a-team-of-runaway-horses-in-the-hands/)

[Bohumil Hrabal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bohumil-hrabal/)

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> [But in the West it is very easy to dissolve the ego. So whenever a Western seeker reaches an understanding that ego…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/but-in-the-west-it-is-very-easy-to-dissolve-the-ego-so-whenever-a/)

[Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/)

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> [“But that can't work, can it?" Said Richard. "If we do that, then this won't have happened. Don't we generate all sorts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-adams/but-that-can-t-work-can-it-said-richard-if-we-do-that-then-this-won-t/)

[Douglas Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-adams/)

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> [Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/data-in-our-psychic-program-is-often-nonlinear-nonhierarchical/)

[Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/)

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> [“Contrary to the dogma downloaded from our many cult-like institutions of higher (actually lower) learning, we’re not in any way separate from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sol-luckman/contrary-to-the-dogma-downloaded-from-our-many-cult-like-institutions/)

[Sol Luckman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sol-luckman/)

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> [In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/in-overlooking-denying-evading-this-complexity-which-is-nothing-more/)

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

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> [I think writing kind of burns out the flaming question. Sometimes it might feel like when you're living with certain paradoxes and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-nelson/i-think-writing-kind-of-burns-out-the-flaming-question-sometimes-it/)

[Maggie Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-nelson/)

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> [The paradox of the human condition is expressed more in education than elsewhere in human culture, because learning to learn has been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-henry/the-paradox-of-the-human-condition-is-expressed-more-in-education/)

[Jules Henry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-henry/)

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> [Paradox is an overrated threat. There is...a quality similar to inertia at work. Once an event has occurred, there is an extremely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-butcher/paradox-is-an-overrated-threat-there-is-a-quality-similar-to-inertia/)

[Jim Butcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-butcher/)

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> [“Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-j-m-nouwen/hospitality-is-not-to-change-people-but-to-offer-them-space-where-2/)

[Henri J.M. Nouwen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-j-m-nouwen/)

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> [Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-moorcock/elric-knew-that-everything-that-existed-had-its-opposite-in-danger-he/)

[Michael Moorcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-moorcock/)

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> [In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cyrano-de-bergerac/in-it-he-proves-that-all-things-are-true-and-states-how-the-truths-of/)

[Cyrano de Bergerac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cyrano-de-bergerac/)

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> [“The average human lifespan compared to the age of the universe is the same as comparing a blink of an eye to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-k-brown/the-average-human-lifespan-compared-to-the-age-of-the-universe-is-the/)

[John K. Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-k-brown/)

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                        "text": "A cat is a purring parcel of paradox, a cunning collection of contradictions. A cat is lazy and busy, dainty and savage, affectionate and aloof, greedy and finicky, sound asleep in one instant, and awake and stalking in the next. A cat is a limp puddle of softness, surrounding a steel-hard and ever-alert set of muscles. ... A cat has the face of a pansy flower, and is just as velvety. A cat holds infinity in her eyes, and your heart in her front paws.",
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                        "text": "You may remember the paradox of time we mentioned earlier: Whatever you do takes time, and yet it is always now. So while your inner purpose is to negate time, your outer purpose necessarily involves future and so could not exist without time. But it is always secondary. Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.",
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                        "text": "Every good teacher and every good parent has somehow learned to negotiate the paradox of freedom and discipline. We want our children and our students to become people who think and live freely, yet at the same time we know that helping them become free requires us to restrict their freedom in certain situations.",
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                        "text": "“It matters./It doesn’t matter. Build space in your head for this paradox. Build as much space for it as you can. Build even more space. You will need it. And then go deep within that space—as far in as you can possibly go—and make absolutely whatever you want to make. It’s”",
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                        "text": "“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading through my own books, and have been unable to find any paradox. In fact, that thing is quite tragic, and some day I shall hope to write an epic called 'Paradox Lost'.”",
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                        "text": "Man feels the urge to run up against the limits of language. Think for example of the astonishment that anything at all exists. This astonishment cannot be expressed in the form of a question, and there is also no answer whatsoever. Anything we might say is a priori bound to be nonsense. Nevertheless we do run up against the limits of language. Kierkegaard too saw that there is this running up against something, and he referred to it in a fairly similar way (as running up against paradox). This running up against the limits of language is ethics.",
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                        "text": "“The kingdom of God is an upside-down kingdom. It beckons us to gamble all, to trust radically, to come and die so that we might live--to give our lives away. Giving life away is a paradox. It's losing so we can win. It's giving so we can receive. It's risking for security. It's faith. The kingdom of God means living that tension.”",
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                        "text": "I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page as an artist deploys his paints upon his palette... and it seemed to me that at the end of any particularly good sentence or any perfectly-put paradox, you could hear the author, somewhere behind the scenes, giggling with delight.",
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                        "text": "“I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change what the sane will not. This is the paradox of philosophers---trying to understand mass delusion among great people that have faith and knowledge, yet they can’t graduate from their institutions of religious theology to apply the knowledge they have gained for the shifting of Zion---- from words to action; from comfort to uncomfortable; from self serving to self giving; from competition to supporting; to tradition to unity; from bias to acceptance; from me to us.”",
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                        "text": "I think in a way the great irony or paradox about America is that it makes it so hard for the sensitive person, the artist, the impressionable person, the person whose raison d'etre is to incarnate the creative will, rather than to just make money, and yet that extreme difficulty that the culture poses for us has created some of the best artists in the last hundred years.",
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                        "text": "“This is the paradox presented by every general library: that if, to a lesser or greater extent, it intends to accumulate and preserve as comprehensive as possible a record of the world, then ultimately its task must be redundant, since it can only be satisfied when the library's borders coincide with those of the world itself.”",
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                        "text": "Here's the pay paradox that Why Men Earn More explains: Men earn more money, therefore men have more power; and men earn more money, therefore men have less power (earning more money as an obligation, not an option). The opposite is true for women: Women earn less money, therefore women have less power; and women earn less money, therefore women have more power (the option to raise children, or to not take a hazardous job).",
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                        "text": "“What a mystery we are to ourselves, even as we go on, learning more, sorting it out a little. The further on we go, the more meaning there is but the less articulable. You live your life, and the older you get – the more specificity you harvest – the more precious becomes every ounce and spam. Your life and times don’t drain of meaning because they become more contradictory, ornamented by paradox, inexplicable. Rather the opposite, maybe. The less explicable, the more meaning. The less a mathematics equation (a sum game); the more like music (significant secret).”",
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                        "text": "“I moved through the world like a team of runaway horses in the hands of an obsessed and demented driver. But I was already somewhere else. I bowed down not just to the trees, [...] but I bowed down as well to those three tomcats, I bowed to myself in the mirror, and smiled because I no longer feared myself. I felt as though I were wearing a bridle and being led, no matter how or where, and it was a wonderful feeling, that everything was being prepared for me, as for a bridegroom or for bridesmaids, or for young men in a funeral procession. I no longer felt alone and it gave me, not strength, but a sweet sensation of happiness, though I knew sadness was lurking not far off, because all being arises from nonbeing, and everything that exists derives from its opposite.”",
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                        "text": "But in the West it is very easy to dissolve the ego. So whenever a Western seeker reaches an understanding that ego is the problem he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker. This is the paradox - in the West ego is taught, in the East egolessness is taught. But in the West it is easy to dissolve the ego, in the East it is very difficult.",
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                        "text": "“Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines. It is not to lead our neighbor into a corner where there are no alternatives left, but to open a wide spectrum of options for choice and commitment. It is not an educated intimidation with good books, good stories, and good works, but the liberation of fearful hearts so that words can find roots and bear ample fruit….The paradox of hospitality is that it wants to create emptiness, not a fearful emptiness, but a friendly emptiness where strangers can enter and discover themselves as created free….not a subtle invitation to adopt the life style of the host, but the gift of a chance for the guest to find his own.”",
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