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> [“...feeling of being everything and the evidence of being nothing.' I happened across this phrase in my youth, and was overwhelmed by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/feeling-of-being-everything-and-the-evidence-of-being-nothing-i/)

[Emil M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emil-m-cioran/)

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> [Instead, over the past thirty years, in the world of action and adventure sports, in situations where asses really were on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-kotler/instead-over-the-past-thirty-years-in-the-world-of-action-and/)

[Steven Kotler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-kotler/)

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> [There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-london/there-is-an-ecstasy-that-marks-the-summit-of-life-and-beyond-which-3/)

[Jack London](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-london/)

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> [“Stockdale Paradox This finding is named after Admiral James Stockdale, winner of the Medal of Honor, who survived seven years in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvard-business-school-press/stockdale-paradox-this-finding-is-named-after-admiral-james-stockdale/)

Harvard Business School Press

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> [“It is truly a great cosmic paradox that one of the best teachers in all of life turns out to be death.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-a-singer/it-is-truly-a-great-cosmic-paradox-that-one-of-the-best-teachers-in/)

[Michael A. Singer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-a-singer/)

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> [New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-goldberger/new-york-remains-what-it-has-always-been-a-city-of-ebb-and-flow-a/)

[Paul Goldberger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-goldberger/)

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> [Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hardwick/gertrude-stein-all-courage-and-will-is-a-soldier-of-minimalism-her/)

[Elizabeth Hardwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hardwick/)

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> [“If the sphere of paradox-religion is abolished, or explained away in aesthetics, an Apostle becomes neither more nor less than a genius,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/s-ren-kierkegaard/if-the-sphere-of-paradox-religion-is-abolished-or-explained-away-in/)

[Søren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/s-ren-kierkegaard/)

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> [The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Differentpoints of view make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-davidson/the-dominant-metaphor-of-conceptual-relativism-that-of-differing/)

[Donald Davidson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-davidson/)

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> [The Second Rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions. It sounds a paradox, but kindness and good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-goodkind/the-second-rule-is-that-the-greatest-harm-can-result-from-the-best/)

[Terry Goodkind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-goodkind/)

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> [I love silence. And one of the paradoxes about the way I live and also about my work is that definitely one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-machover/i-love-silence-and-one-of-the-paradoxes-about-the-way-i-live-and-also/)

[Tod Machover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-machover/)

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> [The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/the-i-casts-off-the-illusion-of-the-i-and-yet-remains-i-such-is-the/)

[Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/)

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> [“Writing about the spiritual life is like making prints from negatives...Often it is the dark forest that makes us speak about the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-durback/writing-about-the-spiritual-life-is-like-making-prints-from-negatives/)

Robert Durback

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> [I require silence to write the way an apple tree requires winter to make fruit. Being with people is intimate and joyous,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/i-require-silence-to-write-the-way-an-apple-tree-requires-winter-to/)

[Jane Hirshfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-hirshfield/)

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> [There are very few theorems in advanced analysis which have been demonstrated in a logically tenable manner. Everywhere one finds this miserable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niels-henrik-abel/there-are-very-few-theorems-in-advanced-analysis-which-have-been/)

[Niels Henrik Abel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niels-henrik-abel/)

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> [Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn't. They would not evolve as human beings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/wouldn-t-it-be-wonderful-if-you-could-spare-them-from-all-suffering/)

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

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> [You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woody-allen/you-will-notice-that-what-we-are-aiming-at-when-we-fall-in-love-is-a/)

[Woody Allen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/woody-allen/)

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> [“The fraudulence paradox was that the more time and effort you put into trying to appear impressive or attractive to other people,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-foster-wallace/the-fraudulence-paradox-was-that-the-more-time-and-effort-you-put-2/)

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

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> [It is one of the paradoxes of parenting, and often a painful paradox, that even as our children need us for love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred-rogers/it-is-one-of-the-paradoxes-of-parenting-and-often-a-painful-paradox/)

[Fred Rogers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fred-rogers/)

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> [It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-fraser-tytler/it-is-not-perhaps-unreasonable-to-conclude-that-a-pure-and-perfect/)

[Alexander Fraser Tytler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-fraser-tytler/)

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> [For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-bernstein/for-the-first-time-in-history-the-rational-and-the-good-are-fully/)

[Andrew Bernstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-bernstein/)

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> [“Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-carroll/alice-laughed-there-s-no-use-trying-she-said-one-can-t-believe-2/)

[Lewis Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-carroll/)

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> [“To get from the tangible to the intangible (which mature artists in any medium claim as part of their task) a paradox…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/minor-white/to-get-from-the-tangible-to-the-intangible-which-mature-artists-in/)

[Minor White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/minor-white/)

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> [The power paradox is that we gain power by advancing the welfare of other people and yet when we feel powerful, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dacher-keltner/the-power-paradox-is-that-we-gain-power-by-advancing-the-welfare-of/)

[Dacher Keltner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dacher-keltner/)

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> [The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/the-world-of-science-lives-fairly-comfortably-with-paradox-we-know/)

[Madeleine L'Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-l-engle/)

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> [“Perhaps part of the uncanny allure of fashionable clothing resides in the paradoxical impact of its expressiveness: the act of covering up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-roach/perhaps-part-of-the-uncanny-allure-of-fashionable-clothing-resides-in/)

Joseph Roach

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> [Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-leary/despite-the-campaign-rhetoric-the-bureaucracies-big-business-and-big/)

[Timothy Leary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-leary/)

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> [As women, we're presented this false choice that is either our children or our work. But I don't think I fully understood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reshma-saujani/as-women-we-re-presented-this-false-choice-that-is-either-our/)

[Reshma Saujani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reshma-saujani/)

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> [“Truth is paradox and suffering is ironic. It's ironic that people who lead dull, safe and boring lives want to impose safety…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chobo/truth-is-paradox-and-suffering-is-ironic-it-s-ironic-that-people-who/)

Chobo

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> [It may be that the human race is not ready for freedom. The air of liberty may be too rarefied for us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/it-may-be-that-the-human-race-is-not-ready-for-freedom-the-air-of/)

[Steven Pressfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pressfield/)

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> [I'll never forget a Podcast I did with Dr Joseph Mercola when my bestseller, 'The Plant Paradox' had just come out. He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-gundry/i-ll-never-forget-a-podcast-i-did-with-dr-joseph-mercola-when-my/)

[Steven Gundry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-gundry/)

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> [“Openness to paradox allows both the understanding and the acceptance of our human condition as “both/and" (both a saint and a sinner)…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-kurtz-and-katherine-ketcham/openness-to-paradox-allows-both-the-understanding-and-the-acceptance/)

[Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-kurtz-and-katherine-ketcham/)

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> [Only Christ could build a bridge to God with only two pieces of wood. The Christian life is a life of paradoxes.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asahel-nettleton/only-christ-could-build-a-bridge-to-god-with-only-two-pieces-of-wood/)

[Asahel Nettleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asahel-nettleton/)

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> [“In its quest to discover how the patterns of reality are organised, the story of modern science hints at a picture of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hamilton/in-its-quest-to-discover-how-the-patterns-of-reality-are-organised/)

Bob Hamilton

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> [“Each time they meet, they have more to discuss, and so they talk, quietly revealing themselves with and without language, their eyes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-connelly/each-time-they-meet-they-have-more-to-discuss-and-so-they-talk/)

[Karen Connelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-connelly/)

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> [Space is an environment of emptiness. It offers no possibility for natural adaptation to any living organism - and particularly not to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hubertus-strughold/space-is-an-environment-of-emptiness-it-offers-no-possibility-for/)

[Hubertus Strughold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hubertus-strughold/)

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> [“A pleasing paradox — The more frequently we contemplate our death, the less dominant its effect in our lives becomes. Like King…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giannis-delimitsos/a-pleasing-paradox-the-more-frequently-we-contemplate-our-death-the/)

[Giannis Delimitsos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giannis-delimitsos/)

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> [“How did this happen? How did we start up a nation from nothing and transform it into a nation of start-ups? The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shimon-peres/how-did-this-happen-how-did-we-start-up-a-nation-from-nothing-and/)

[Shimon Peres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shimon-peres/)

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> [By a beautiful paradox of Divine love, God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation and our life. We have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fulton-j-sheen/by-a-beautiful-paradox-of-divine-love-god-makes-his-cross-the-very/)

[Fulton J. Sheen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fulton-j-sheen/)

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> [She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/truman-capote/she-was-a-triumph-over-ugliness-so-often-more-beguiling-than-real/)

[Truman Capote](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/truman-capote/)

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                        "text": "There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad in a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.",
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                        "text": "“Stockdale Paradox This finding is named after Admiral James Stockdale, winner of the Medal of Honor, who survived seven years in a Vietcong POW camp by hanging on to two contradictory beliefs: His life couldn’t be worse at the moment, and his life would someday be better than ever. Like Stockdale, people at the good-to-great companies in our research confronted the most brutal facts of their current reality, yet simultaneously maintained absolute faith that they would prevail in the end. And they held both disciplines—faith and facts—at the same time, all the time.”",
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                        "text": "“It is truly a great cosmic paradox that one of the best teachers in all of life turns out to be death. No person or situation could ever teach you as much as death has to teach you. While someone could tell you that you are not your body, death shows you. While someone could remind you of the insignificance of the things that you cling to, death takes them all away in a second. While people can teach you that men and women of all races are equal and that there is no difference between the rich and the poor, death instantly makes us all the same.”",
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                        "text": "New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population and economics, a city of virtually no rest. It is harsh, dirty, and dangerous, it is whimsical and fanciful, it is beautiful and soaring - it is not one or another of these things but all of them, all at once, and to fail to accept this paradox is to deny the reality of city existence.",
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                        "text": "Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel Beckett, embodies in its loquacity and verbosity the curious paradox of the minimalist form. This art of the nuance in repetition and placement she shares with the orchestral compositions of Philip Glass.",
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                        "text": "“If the sphere of paradox-religion is abolished, or explained away in aesthetics, an Apostle becomes neither more nor less than a genius, and then--good night, Christianity! Esprit and the Spirit, revelation and originality, a call from God and genius, all end by meaning more or less the same thing.”",
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                        "text": "The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Differentpoints of view make sense, but only if there is a common co-ordinate system on which to plot them; yet the existence of a common system belies the claim of dramatic incomparability.",
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                        "text": "The Second Rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions. It sounds a paradox, but kindness and good intentions can be an insidious path to destruction. Sometimes doing what seems right is wrong, and can cause harm. The only counter to it is knowledge, wisdom, forethought, and understanding the First Rule. Even then, that is not always enough.",
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                        "text": "I love silence. And one of the paradoxes about the way I live and also about my work is that definitely one of the reasons I went into music, and especially into composing is that I love setting up an environment where I can be by myself for long periods of time and have everything as quiet as possible, either to think about sound, or to think about ideas, or just to focus on things that are important to me.",
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                        "text": "The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do not see any paradox in it. Consider the case of the worshipper. He approaches God and prays to be absorbed in Him. He then surrenders himself in faith and by concentration. And what remains afterwards? In the place of the original 'I', self-surrender leaves a residuum of God in which the 'I' is lost. That is the highest form of devotion or surrender and the peak of detachment.",
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                        "text": "“Writing about the spiritual life is like making prints from negatives...Often it is the dark forest that makes us speak about the open field. Frequently prison makes us think about freedom, hunger helps us to appreciate food, and war gives us words for peace. Not seldom are our vision of the future born out of the sufferings of the present and our hope for others out of our own despair. Only few \"happy endings\" make us happy but often someone's careful ad honest articulation of the ambiguities, uncertainties, and painful conditions of life gives us new hope. The paradox is indeed that new life is born out of the pains of the old.”",
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                        "text": "I require silence to write the way an apple tree requires winter to make fruit. Being with people is intimate and joyous, but at some point, I'll wander off by myself. The paradox is that what began in childhood as an act of necessary solitude has led me straight to a life with others, in which I fly to China or Lithuania or northern Minnesota to read my poems and talk with other people who love language made into a lathe on which a life can be tuned and be turned.",
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                        "text": "You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact that, when we fall in love, we are seeking to re-find all or some of the people to whom we were attached as children. On the other hand, we ask our beloved to correct all of the wrongs that these early parents or siblings inflicted upon us. So that love contains in it the contradiction: The attempt to return to the past and the attempt to undo the past.",
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                        "text": "“The fraudulence paradox was that the more time and effort you put into trying to appear impressive or attractive to other people, the less impressive or attractive you felt inside -- you were a fraud. And the more of a fraud you felt like, the harder you tried to convey an impressive or likable image of yourself so that other people wouldn't find out what a hollow, fraudulent person you really were.”",
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                        "text": "It is one of the paradoxes of parenting, and often a painful paradox, that even as our children need us for love and trust, they also need us for honest differing. It's not only over limits and rules...[but also] about what we represent in the way of culture, traditions, and values. We owe it to our children to let them know what we believe, and if they differ with us, we owe it to them to be honest adversaries, for it is through this honest confrontation that children can grow into adults who have a firm sense of their place in the sequence of the generations.",
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                        "text": "It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is of contending elements of vice and virtue, and ever mainly influenced by the predominant principle of self-interest. It may, indeed, be confidently asserted, that there never was that government called a republic, which was not ultimately ruled by a single will, and, therefore, (however bold may seem the paradox,) virtually and substantially a monarchy.",
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                        "text": "For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally find the answer to our paradox; now we can understand the nature of the social power held by evil. Ultimately, the evil, the irrational, truly has no power. The evil men’s control of morality is transient; it lives on borrowed time made possible only by the errors of the good. In time, as more honest men grasp the truth, evil’s stranglehold will be easily broken.",
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                        "text": "“Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”",
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                        "text": "“To get from the tangible to the intangible (which mature artists in any medium claim as part of their task) a paradox of some kind has frequently been helpful. For the photographer to free himself of the tyranny of the visual facts upon which he is utterly dependent, a paradox is the only possible tool. And the talisman paradox for unique photography is to work \"the mirror with a memory\" as if it were a mirage, and the camera is a metamorphosing machine, and the photograph as if it were a metaphor…. Once freed of the tyranny of surfaces and textures, substance and form [the photographer] can use the same to pursue poetic truth\" (Minor White, Newhall, 281).”",
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                        "text": "The power paradox is that we gain power by advancing the welfare of other people and yet when we feel powerful, it turns us into impulsive sociopaths and we lose those very skills. If you're in the military, you gain power by forging strong ties in your comrades. And then the irony is that once we feel powerful and we are taken with our own success, we ignore the skills that got us power in the first place.",
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                        "text": "The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being.",
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                        "text": "“Perhaps part of the uncanny allure of fashionable clothing resides in the paradoxical impact of its expressiveness: the act of covering up with mere dead matter--cloth, fur, leather, or even metal when it is ingeniously shaped to the purpose--appears to reveal something magical about the life inside.”",
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                        "text": "Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can be rationally directed towards our species goal: Space Migration, which in turn offers the only way to re-attain individual freedom of space-time and the small-group social structures which obviously best suit our nervous systems. It is another paradox of neuro-genetics that only in space habitats can humanity return to the village life and pastoral style for which we all long.",
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                        "text": "As women, we're presented this false choice that is either our children or our work. But I don't think I fully understood the paradox until I had a child. I bring my son to work and let other parents do the same. I am very intentional about the workplace that I create, and my son is a big part of that.",
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                        "text": "“Truth is paradox and suffering is ironic. It's ironic that people who lead dull, safe and boring lives want to impose safety measures on everything in order to live their dull lives longer. And it's paradoxical that the heart of true life lies in knowing death and danger. It's only when you are prepared to risk your very life that you start living.”",
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