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title: "Top Paradox Proverbs"
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> [ One \[paradox\] is that pornography follows in that wake of women's liberation. The first instances of hard-core pornography were in late 18th-century… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-marche/one-paradox-is-that-pornography-follows-in-that-wake-of-women-s/)

[Stephen Marche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-marche/)

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> [But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-bronowski/but-nature-that-is-biological-evolution-has-not-fitted-man-to-any/)

[Jacob Bronowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-bronowski/)

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> [“She abandoned me. This was devastating. And the paradox was that the moment she abandoned me, she began to be with me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franco-santoro/she-abandoned-me-this-was-devastating-and-the-paradox-was-that-the/)

[Franco Santoro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franco-santoro/)

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> [Affirmations are like screaming that you're okay in order to overcome this whisper that you're not. That's a big contrast to actually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pema-ch-dr-n/affirmations-are-like-screaming-that-you-re-okay-in-order-to-overcome/)

[Pema Chodron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pema-ch-dr-n/)

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> [When you go into a movie and you're surprised by it - these days with brand recognition being such an important thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-pegg/when-you-go-into-a-movie-and-you-re-surprised-by-it-these-days-with/)

[Simon Pegg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-pegg/)

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> [“The inconsistencies that haunt our relationships with animals also result from the quirks of human cognition. We like to think of ourselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-herzog/the-inconsistencies-that-haunt-our-relationships-with-animals-also/)

[Hal Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-herzog/)

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> [When we begin to love and respect Great Mother Nature's gift to us of gayness, we'll discover that the bondage of our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-hay/when-we-begin-to-love-and-respect-great-mother-nature-s-gift-to-us-of/)

[Harry Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-hay/)

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> [Each soul which believes it is its own eternal evil will eternally seek its good, but the great paradox is that in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sorin-cerin/each-soul-which-believes-it-is-its-own-eternal-evil-will-eternally/)

[Sorin Cerin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sorin-cerin/)

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> [The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pema-ch-dr-n/the-mind-is-very-wild-the-human-experience-is-full-of/)

[Pema Chodron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pema-ch-dr-n/)

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> [“fifty-six, his hour had come round. He was a paradox and would always remain one, a great tangle of calculated mannerisms and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-atkinson/fifty-six-his-hour-had-come-round-he-was-a-paradox-and-would-always/)

[Rick Atkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-atkinson/)

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> [“Welcome my new paranoia, if you are not my reality, so where the hell is the fucking reality!?!?! To be or not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fereidoon-yazdi/welcome-my-new-paranoia-if-you-are-not-my-reality-so-where-the-hell/)

[Fereidoon Yazdi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fereidoon-yazdi/)

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> [“Achieving operational excellence in categories above and around software is exponentially more difficult to achieve than in software alone. But the rewards…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-o-grady/achieving-operational-excellence-in-categories-above-and-around/)

[Stephen O’Grady](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-o-grady/)

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> [The paradox: there can be no pilgrimage without a destination, but the destination is also not the real point of the endeavor.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-hampl/the-paradox-there-can-be-no-pilgrimage-without-a-destination-but-the/)

[Patricia Hampl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-hampl/)

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> [I am preoccupied with the possibility of creating art which functions in a public situation without compromising its private character of being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claes-oldenburg/i-am-preoccupied-with-the-possibility-of-creating-art-which-functions/)

[Claes Oldenburg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claes-oldenburg/)

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> [Fashion is made up of paradoxes. There was a key moment in fashion. When the Japanese first arrived - Comme des Garçons,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ines-de-la-fressange/fashion-is-made-up-of-paradoxes-there-was-a-key-moment-in-fashion/)

[Ines de La Fressange](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ines-de-la-fressange/)

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> [New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-gunther/new-york-city-the-incomparable-the-brilliant-star-city-of-cities-the/)

[John Gunther](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-gunther/)

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> [“He came face-to-face with the rude paradox fame had dealt him: The secret of his extraordinary art had been his ability to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-r-strahan-2/he-came-face-to-face-with-the-rude-paradox-fame-had-dealt-him-the/)

[C. R. Strahan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-r-strahan-2/)

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> [When you're in a room with twenty people who've all got the True Theory of the universe, it's difficult to know what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-wertheim/when-you-re-in-a-room-with-twenty-people-who-ve-all-got-the-true/)

[Margaret Wertheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-wertheim/)

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> [I'm aware that I'm kind of a paradox, and at times a bit ill-suited to my profession. But there's something that brings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-watson/i-m-aware-that-i-m-kind-of-a-paradox-and-at-times-a-bit-ill-suited-to/)

[Emma Watson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-watson/)

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> [“His most famous paradox goes like this. I decide to walk to the ice cream store. Now certainly I can’t get to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jordan-ellenberg/his-most-famous-paradox-goes-like-this-i-decide-to-walk-to-the-ice/)

[Jordan Ellenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jordan-ellenberg/)

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> [If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi/if-there-is-one-word-that-makes-creative-people-different-from-others-2/)

[Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi/)

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> [ The second \[argument about motion\] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zeno-of-elea/the-second-argument-about-motion-is-the-so-called-achilles-and-it/)

[Zeno of Elea](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zeno-of-elea/)

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> [“In order for a god to be all-knowing, he must know even the fact of his own omniscience. But can he do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-puccetti/in-order-for-a-god-to-be-all-knowing-he-must-know-even-the-fact-of/)

[Roland Puccetti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-puccetti/)

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> [And there is also the paradox that the dominating culture imbues the Indian past with great meaning and significance; it is valued…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-hogan/and-there-is-also-the-paradox-that-the-dominating-culture-imbues-the/)

[Linda Hogan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-hogan/)

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> [I do have a very conscious desire not to be academic. I'm antiacademic. I hate jargon. I hate that sort of pretension.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-h-gass/i-do-have-a-very-conscious-desire-not-to-be-academic-i-m-antiacademic/)

[William H. Gass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-h-gass/)

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> [It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-black/it-is-the-paradox-of-life-that-the-way-to-miss-pleasure-is-to-seek-it-3/)

[Hugh Black](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-black/)

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> [Active management strategies demand uninstitutional behavior from institutions, creating a paradox that few can unravel. Establishing and maintaining an unconventional investment profile…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-f-swensen/active-management-strategies-demand-uninstitutional-behavior-from/)

[David F. Swensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-f-swensen/)

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> [We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-sparks/we-sit-silently-and-watch-the-world-around-us-this-has-taken-a/)

[Nicholas Sparks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-sparks/)

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> [Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/art-is-an-affirmation-of-life-a-rebuttal-of-death-and-here-we-blunder/)

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

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> [“This is the paradox of the power of literature: it seems that only when it is persecuted does it show its true…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/italo-calvino/this-is-the-paradox-of-the-power-of-literature-it-seems-that-only/)

[Italo Calvino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/italo-calvino/)

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> [“To survive in most arenas of power you must first understand that everyone lies, everyone cheats, and no one is your friend.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurell-k-hamilton/to-survive-in-most-arenas-of-power-you-must-first-understand-that/)

[Laurell K. Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurell-k-hamilton/)

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> [“There is a curious paradox that no one can explain. Who understands the secret of the reaping of the grain? Who understands…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-jones/there-is-a-curious-paradox-that-no-one-can-explain-who-understands/)

[Tom Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-jones/)

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> [“It's a bit like staring into another dimension, one that has a different set of mathematical and physical laws. For me, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-jarzab/it-s-a-bit-like-staring-into-another-dimension-one-that-has-a/)

[Anna Jarzab](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-jarzab/)

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> [“Glory: I look around at this world you're so eager to be a part of and all I see is six billion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-petrie/glory-i-look-around-at-this-world-you-re-so-eager-to-be-a-part-of-and/)

[Douglas Petrie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-petrie/)

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> [The paradox is that, by children taking shortcuts through computer games, through fantasies, through movies that load on all the emotional stimulation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-o-wilson/the-paradox-is-that-by-children-taking-shortcuts-through-computer/)

[E. O. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-o-wilson/)

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> [You know, some people say that Cannes is the worst place in the world to see cinema. It's a paradox. They have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/miguel-gomes/you-know-some-people-say-that-cannes-is-the-worst-place-in-the-world/)

[Miguel Gomes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/miguel-gomes/)

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> [“It seemed a ruse that fear of death should be the sole motivation for living and, yet, to quell this fear made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashim-shanker/it-seemed-a-ruse-that-fear-of-death-should-be-the-sole-motivation-for/)

[Ashim Shanker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashim-shanker/)

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> [The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-craig-roberts/the-great-paradox-of-the-civil-rights-revolution-is-that-instead-of/)

[Paul Craig Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-craig-roberts/)

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> [But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-l-carter/but-that-is-the-way-of-the-place-down-our-many-twisting-corridors-one/)

[Stephen L. Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-l-carter/)

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> [We tried to present the ordinary in an extraordinary manner. But that's the paradox because the only thing extraordinary about it was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-shahn/we-tried-to-present-the-ordinary-in-an-extraordinary-manner-but-that/)

[Ben Shahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-shahn/)

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                        "text": "“She abandoned me. This was devastating. And the paradox was that the moment she abandoned me, she began to be with me at all times, constantly abandoning me wherever I would go, whatever I would do and with whomever I was. And the pain was unbearable. Hence, I decided to abandon everyone and everything, remaining with nothing, doing nothing and being absolutely alone. Well, the paradox is that she is still there!”",
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                        "text": "Affirmations are like screaming that you're okay in order to overcome this whisper that you're not. That's a big contrast to actually uncovering the whisper, realizing that it's a passing memory, and moving closer to all those fears and all those edgy feelings that maybe you're not okay. Well, no big deal. None of us is okay and all of us are fine. It's not just one way. We are walking, talking paradoxes.",
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                        "text": "When you go into a movie and you're surprised by it - these days with brand recognition being such an important thing and essentially trailers, the way trailers have evolved encouraging people not to see the film unless they've already seen the film which is kind of the paradox of marketing these days anytime that you enjoy genuine sense of wonder and surprise in the movies it's priceless.",
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                        "text": "“The inconsistencies that haunt our relationships with animals also result from the quirks of human cognition. We like to think of ourselves as the rational species. But research in cognitive psychology and behavioral economics shows that our thinking and behavior are often completely illogical. In one study, for example, groups of people were independently asked how much they would give to prevent waterfowl from being killed in polluted oil ponds. On average, the subjects said they would pay $80 to save 2,000 birds, $78 to save 20,000 birds, and $88 to save 200,000 birds. Sometimes animals act more logically than people do; a recent study found that when picking a new home, the decisions of ant colonies were more rational than those of human house-hunters. What is it about human psychology that makes it so difficult for us to think consistently about animals? The paradoxes that plague our interactions with other species are due to the fact that much of our thinking is a mire of instinct, learning, language, culture, intuition, and our reliance on mental shortcuts.”",
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                        "text": "When we begin to love and respect Great Mother Nature's gift to us of gayness, we'll discover that the bondage of our childhood and adolescence in the trials and tribulations of neitherness was actually an apprenticeship for teaching her children new cutting edges of consciousness and social change. In stunning paradox, our neitherness is our talisman, our fairie wand, our gift we bring to the hetero world to…transform their pain into healings; ...transform their tears to laughter: ...transform their hand-me-downs to visions of loveliness.",
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                        "text": "Each soul which believes it is its own eternal evil will eternally seek its good, but the great paradox is that in order to find each other one should look for the Good and the other for the Evil because they cannot both have the same sense because they are the opposite of each other.",
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                        "text": "“fifty-six, his hour had come round. He was a paradox and would always remain one, a great tangle of calculated mannerisms and raw, uncalculated emotion. Well-read, fluent in French, and the wealthy child of privilege, he could be crude, rude, and plain foolish. He had reduced his extensive study of history and military art to a five-word manifesto of war: “violent attacks everywhere with everything.”",
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                        "text": "“Welcome my new paranoia, if you are not my reality, so where the hell is the fucking reality!?!?! To be or not to be?! this is the paranoia of my sweet dreams. So you are more than welcome to my paradox, to my mind, to my existence. Consume from my brains flesh. There is no ending of this portion for you. My mind is the Prometheus of the time. Endless resource for paranoia.”",
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                        "text": "“Achieving operational excellence in categories above and around software is exponentially more difficult to achieve than in software alone. But the rewards are much greater, and in many cases, the Software Paradox may mean that would-be providers of software have no choice but to expand their product focus.”",
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                        "text": "The paradox: there can be no pilgrimage without a destination, but the destination is also not the real point of the endeavor. Not the destination, but the willingness to wander in pursuit characterizes pilgrimage. Willingness: to hear the tales along the way, to make the casual choices of travel, to acquiesce even to boredom. That's pilgrimage -- a mind full of journey.",
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                        "text": "I am preoccupied with the possibility of creating art which functions in a public situation without compromising its private character of being antiheroic, antimonumental, antiabstract, and antigeneral. The paradox is intensified by the use on a grand scale of small-scale subjects known from intimate situations--an approach which tends in turn to reduce the scale of the real landscape to imaginary dimensions.",
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                        "text": "Fashion is made up of paradoxes. There was a key moment in fashion. When the Japanese first arrived - Comme des Garçons, Yohji Yamamoto, and all - I have to humbly admit that I didn't understand the importance of it at all. It was Jean-Jacques Picart who explained it to me. They had a huge influence in that they showed that aestheticism could be different from prettiness, that there was beauty and that beauty was beyond pretty.",
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                        "text": "I'm aware that I'm kind of a paradox, and at times a bit ill-suited to my profession. But there's something that brings me back. There's something in me that feels like I have to do this, that this is what I'm meant to be doing. If I didn't feel this way, I wouldn't do it. But it's full of contradictions, for sure.",
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                        "text": "“His most famous paradox goes like this. I decide to walk to the ice cream store. Now certainly I can’t get to the ice cream store until I’ve gone halfway there. And once I’ve gone halfway, I can’t get to the store until I’ve gone half the distance that remains. Having done so, I still have to cover half the remaining distance. And so on, and so on. I may get closer and closer to the ice cream store—but no matter how many steps of this process I undergo, I never actually reach the ice cream store. I am always some tiny but nonzero distance away from my two scoops with jimmies. Thus, Zeno concludes, to walk to the ice cream store is impossible.”",
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                        "text": "The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead. Statement of the Achilles and the Tortoise paradox in the relation of the discrete to the continuous.; perhaps the earliest example of the reductio ad absurdum method of proof.",
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                        "text": "“In order for a god to be all-knowing, he must know even the fact of his own omniscience. But can he do this? He may know the totality of facts constituting the world; call this Y. But in order to know that he has mastered Y, he must also know that 'There are no facts unknown to me' — and this is beyond Y. It seems impossible that a god (or anyone) could ever be sure that nothing exists beyond his ken. It makes no sense to imagine [a god] arriving at this limit, peering beyond it (at what?), and satisfying himself no further facts exist. But without this certainty he cannot be sure of his own omniscience, and so does not know everything. A theist might argue that his god has created all the facts in existence. But an omniscient god would have to be sure of even this — that he is the sole creator, and that there are no facts unknown to him. And how could he come to this knowledge?”",
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                        "text": "And there is also the paradox that the dominating culture imbues the Indian past with great meaning and significance; it is valued more because it is seen as part of the past. And it is the romantic past, not the present, that holds meaning and spiritual significance for so many members of the dominating culture. It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land, respects these very things about Indian traditions, without adopting those respected ways themselves.",
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                        "text": "I do have a very conscious desire not to be academic. I'm antiacademic. I hate jargon. I hate that sort of pretension. I am a person who [commits] breaches of decorum - not in private life, but in my work. They are part of my mode of operation. That kind of playfulness is part of my nature in general. The paradox that, in a way, to take something very seriously, you can't always be serious about it.",
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                        "text": "It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. As a matter of experience, we find that true happiness comes in seeking other things, in the manifold activities of life, in the healthful outgoing of all human powers.",
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                        "text": "Active management strategies demand uninstitutional behavior from institutions, creating a paradox that few can unravel. Establishing and maintaining an unconventional investment profile requires acceptance of uncomfortably idiosyncratic portfolios, which frequently appear downright imprudent in the eyes of conventional wisdom.",
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                        "text": "We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.",
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                        "text": "The paradox is that, by children taking shortcuts through computer games, through fantasies, through movies that load on all the emotional stimulation of encountering life in a stylized way - all of this is the equivalent of mainlining of paleolithic emotions, emotions about combat, about personal success, about overcoming monsters, about making powerful friendships, about winning wars and entering new territory.",
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                        "text": "You know, some people say that Cannes is the worst place in the world to see cinema. It's a paradox. They have the new films , lots of interesting films premiering there for the first time. At the same time it's such a mess and a confusion. You have to run from one screening to another.",
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                        "text": "The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created differential rights based on race, gender and, any day now, sexual orientation. The great liberal revolution, centuries in the making, that brought forth equality in law has been overthrown. In its place we see rising a new feudal legal order of status-based rights.",
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