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> [The Universe is very, very big. It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules. Rule number one:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-ferguson/the-universe-is-very-very-big-it-also-loves-a-paradox-for-example-it/)

[Craig Ferguson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/craig-ferguson/)

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> [It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/it-is-the-duty-of-the-human-understanding-to-understand-that-there/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

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> [The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-miller/the-spartans-were-a-paradoxical-people-they-were-the-biggest-slave/)

[Frank Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-miller/)

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> [“He quickened his stride: 'The truth is in the paradox, Miss Drake. Anything not done in submission to God, anything not done…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-weber/he-quickened-his-stride-the-truth-is-in-the-paradox-miss-drake/)

[Carolyn Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-weber/)

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> [“However, he still retained something of the fluid notions of male and female at the heart of the Ramakrishna's spiritual idealism: 'The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-harris/however-he-still-retained-something-of-the-fluid-notions-of-male-and/)

[Ruth Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-harris/)

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> [I'm a paradox. I want to be happy, but I think things that make me sad. I'm lazy, yet I'm ambitious. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-m-a-paradox-i-want-to-be-happy-but-i-think-things-that-make-me-sad/)

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

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> [“Each cherry took about three seconds to eat. Three seconds to eat, but at least five years in the making. It seemed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-j-jacobs/each-cherry-took-about-three-seconds-to-eat-three-seconds-to-eat-but/)

[A.J. Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-j-jacobs/)

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> [Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/be-wild-that-is-how-to-clear-the-river-the-river-does-not-flow-in/)

[Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/)

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> [OK, so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-mills/ok-so-my-parents-were-married-in-1955-and-my-mom-knew-my-dad-was-gay/)

[Mike Mills](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-mills/)

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> [At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about "a public debt being a public blessing"; that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/at-the-time-we-were-funding-our-national-debt-we-heard-much-about-a/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [“When I was a boy I felt that the roll of rhyme in poetry was to compel one to find the un-obvious-…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanislaw-ulam/when-i-was-a-boy-i-felt-that-the-roll-of-rhyme-in-poetry-was-to/)

[Stanislaw Ulam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanislaw-ulam/)

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> [The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-paradox-of-vengefulness-is-that-it-makes-men-dependent-upon-those-2/)

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

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> [Everybody knows you're going to miss some. It's just the reality and the probability of it. It's the ultimate paradox for a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nate-kaeding/everybody-knows-you-re-going-to-miss-some-it-s-just-the-reality-and/)

Nate Kaeding

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> [Writing is both the excursion into and the excursion out of one's life. That is the queasy paradox of the artistic life.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorrie-moore/writing-is-both-the-excursion-into-and-the-excursion-out-of-one-s/)

[Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorrie-moore/)

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> [There are some who maintain that trade will regulate itself, and it is not to be benefited by the encouragements or restraints…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-hamilton/there-are-some-who-maintain-that-trade-will-regulate-itself-and-it-is/)

[Alexander Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-hamilton/)

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> [That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ted-hughes/that-s-the-paradox-the-only-time-most-people-feel-alive-is-when-they-2/)

[Ted Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ted-hughes/)

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> [The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they've won.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-moyers/the-corporate-right-and-the-political-right-declared-class-warfare-on/)

[Bill Moyers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-moyers/)

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> [Like his admirer Samuel Beckett, Johnson locates his voices among conditions of such deprivation that even the most miserable memories are gilded…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-marcus/like-his-admirer-samuel-beckett-johnson-locates-his-voices-among/)

[James Marcus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-marcus/)

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> [Dreams are self-created, but dreamers often do not understand the images that their own minds produce. Therein lays the essential paradox of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-mcphee/dreams-are-self-created-but-dreamers-often-do-not-understand-the/)

[Charles McPhee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-mcphee/)

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> [The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-solnit/the-famous-zen-parable-about-the-master-for-whom-before-his-studies/)

[Rebecca Solnit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-solnit/)

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> [I figured being a bed salesman was a job of biblically bad paradox. I mean, here he was, forced to stand for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-cohn/i-figured-being-a-bed-salesman-was-a-job-of-biblically-bad-paradox-i/)

[Rachel Cohn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-cohn/)

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> [A woman’s beauty is supposed to be her grand project and constant insecurity. We’re meant to shellac our lips with five different…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/molly-crabapple/a-woman-s-beauty-is-supposed-to-be-her-grand-project-and-constant/)

[Molly Crabapple](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/molly-crabapple/)

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> [A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jedediah-purdy/a-favorite-wired-icon-for-the-information-feedback-loop-a-dragon/)

Jedediah Purdy

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> [The Fundamental Regulator Paradox ... The task of a regulator is to eliminate variation, but this variation is the ultimate source of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-weinberg/the-fundamental-regulator-paradox-the-task-of-a-regulator-is-to/)

[Gerald Weinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-weinberg/)

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> [ When Pico \[Iyer\] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/when-pico-iyer-talks-about-home-being-a-place-of-isolation-i-think-he/)

[Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/)

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> [In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, an error, a wound, an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-richo/in-the-hero-stories-the-call-to-go-on-a-journey-takes-the-form-of-a/)

[David Richo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-richo/)

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> [“For Schwartz this formed the paradox at the heart of baseball, or football, or any other sport. You loved it because you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chad-harbach/for-schwartz-this-formed-the-paradox-at-the-heart-of-baseball-or/)

[Chad Harbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chad-harbach/)

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> [“The sorting we do to ourselves and to one another is at best, unintentional and reflexive; at worst, it's stereotyping that dehumanizes.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bren-brown/the-sorting-we-do-to-ourselves-and-to-one-another-is-at-best/)

[Brené Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bren-brown/)

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> [That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-jonson/that-praises-are-without-reason-lavished-on-the-dead-and-that-the/)

[Ben Jonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-jonson/)

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> [“It was the discovery of the quantum universe that changed everything, and that universe was so small and so dynamic that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katherine-ramsland/it-was-the-discovery-of-the-quantum-universe-that-changed-everything/)

[Katherine Ramsland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katherine-ramsland/)

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> [“I was tempted to tell the whole truth. But in moments when a confession was about to seep out, I stopped myself,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sascha-rothchild/i-was-tempted-to-tell-the-whole-truth-but-in-moments-when-a/)

Sascha Rothchild

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> [One paradox I have found is that, the more you use computers in picture-making, the more hand-made the picture becomes. Oddly, then,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeff-wall/one-paradox-i-have-found-is-that-the-more-you-use-computers-in/)

[Jeff Wall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeff-wall/)

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> [To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-barthes/to-hide-a-passion-totally-or-even-to-hide-more-simply-its-excess-is/)

[Roland Barthes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-barthes/)

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> [Through dance, people meet demons, ward off death, shake off sin and evil, come to terms with life crises, mediate paradoxes, resolve…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-lynne-hanna/through-dance-people-meet-demons-ward-off-death-shake-off-sin-and/)

[Judith Lynne Hanna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-lynne-hanna/)

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> [“This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-foster-wallace/this-is-the-kind-of-paradox-i-think-of-what-it-is-to-be-a-halfway/)

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

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> [“Q: The Continuum didn't think you had it in you, Jean-Luc. But I knew you did...We wanted to see if you had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brannon-braga/q-the-continuum-didn-t-think-you-had-it-in-you-jean-luc-but-i-knew/)

Brannon Braga

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> [Perhaps unsurprisingly, there's a paradox here! Kierkegaard's own indirect communication proposes that we start with the experience of those who don't believe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-pattison/perhaps-unsurprisingly-there-s-a-paradox-here-kierkegaard-s-own/)

[George Pattison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-pattison/)

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> [“Isn't that the key to our easy divorces? If we cared for women in the old barbarous possessive way do you suppose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/isn-t-that-the-key-to-our-easy-divorces-if-we-cared-for-women-in-the/)

[Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/)

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> [Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-caleb-colton/few-things-are-more-agreeable-to-self-love-than-revenge-and-yet-no/)

[Charles Caleb Colton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-caleb-colton/)

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> [There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-hargreaves/there-is-a-new-science-of-complexity-which-says-that-the-link-between/)

[Andy Hargreaves](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-hargreaves/)

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                        "text": "“He quickened his stride: 'The truth is in the paradox, Miss Drake. Anything not done in submission to God, anything not done to the glory of God, is doomed to failure, frailty, and futility. This is the unholy trinity we humans fear most. And we should, for we entertain it all the time at the pain and expense of not knowing the real one.”",
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                        "text": "I'm a paradox. I want to be happy, but I think things that make me sad. I'm lazy, yet I'm ambitious. I don't like myself, but also love who I am. I say I don't care, but I really do. I crave attention, but reject it when it comes my way. I'm a conflicted contradiction. If I can't figure myself out, there's no way anyone else has.",
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                        "text": "“Each cherry took about three seconds to eat. Three seconds to eat, but at least five years in the making. It seemed unfair to the hard-working cherry tree. The least I could do was to devote my attention to the cherry in those three seconds, really appreciate the tartness of the skin and the faint crunching sound when I bite down. I guess it's called mindfulness. Or being in the moment, or making the mundane sacred. Whatever it is, I'm doing it more. Like the ridiculously extended thank-you list for my hummus, the fruit taboo made me more aware of the whole cherry process, the seed, the soil, the five years of watering and waiting. That's the paradox: I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.”",
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                        "text": "Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.",
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                        "text": "OK, so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was gay and so I was, like, 'Why in the heck did you get married?' Like, what was going on? What was that time? It's like this crazy paradox that my whole life is based on, or my family's based on. So I spent a lot of time trying to understand '55.",
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                        "text": "The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when they make their tormentors suffer. In seeking the Bird's death to free himself, Louie had chained himself, once again, to his tyrant. During the war, the Bird had been unwilling to let go of Louie; after the war, Louie was unable to let go of the Bird.",
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                        "text": "Everybody knows you're going to miss some. It's just the reality and the probability of it. It's the ultimate paradox for a kicker. You go out expecting to make every kick, but you also know it's probably not going to happen. So you have these two conflicting thoughts and realities. The really good kickers are the ones who can process that information. That's what I'm learning to do.",
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                        "text": "That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox; or those who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy will be at last bestowed by time.",
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