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> [I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/i-hold-it-to-be-a-paramount-duty-of-us-in-the-free-states-due-to-the/)

[Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/)

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> [I recently got back from Hiroshima and it was fascinating to me how the Japanese accommodate this paradox. We were talking about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-recently-got-back-from-hiroshima-and-it-was-fascinating-to-me-how/)

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

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> [It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/northrop-frye/it-seems-to-me-that-canadian-sensibility-has-been-profoundly/)

[Northrop Frye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/northrop-frye/)

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> [“This kindness, this stupid kindness, is what is most truly human in a human being. It is what sets man apart, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vasily-grossman/this-kindness-this-stupid-kindness-is-what-is-most-truly-human-in-a/)

[Vasily Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vasily-grossman/)

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> [It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-caleb-colton/it-is-a-curious-paradox-that-precisely-in-proportion-to-our-own/)

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

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> [It was time to expect more of myself. Yet as I thought about happiness, I kept running up against paradoxes. I wanted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretchen-rubin/it-was-time-to-expect-more-of-myself-yet-as-i-thought-about-happiness/)

[Gretchen Rubin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretchen-rubin/)

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> [The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/the-deeper-our-faith-the-more-doubt-we-must-endure-the-deeper-our/)

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

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> [I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. Petals are bone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maxine-hong-kingston/i-learned-to-make-my-mind-large-as-the-universe-is-large-so-that/)

[Maxine Hong Kingston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maxine-hong-kingston/)

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> [What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cage/what-is-the-purpose-of-writing-music-one-is-of-course-not-dealing/)

[John Cage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-cage/)

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> [“The paradox is that by being ‘in love’ we are in fact falling in love with ourselves, and we have an opportunity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-bartlett/the-paradox-is-that-by-being-in-love-we-are-in-fact-falling-in-love/)

[Sarah Bartlett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-bartlett/)

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> [One of the paradoxes that makes the internet such a suggestive place is that, on the one hand, we perceive it as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-heffernan/one-of-the-paradoxes-that-makes-the-internet-such-a-suggestive-place/)

[Virginia Heffernan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-heffernan/)

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> [“A heartbreaking paradox: if only I can finish my work so that it will live. Yet if it is finished, completed ,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/a-heartbreaking-paradox-if-only-i-can-finish-my-work-so-that-it-will/)

[Hélène Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/)

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> [“In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton/in-the-matter-of-reforming-things-as-distinct-from-deforming-them/)

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

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> [“When you are going on a spiritual path, as I explain it, you are basically raising your vibration. You then begin to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-desmarques/when-you-are-going-on-a-spiritual-path-as-i-explain-it-you-are/)

[Dan Desmarques](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-desmarques/)

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> [“... the Gen Y paradox: an entire generation of employees with the attitude that they know how to communicate with anybody, anytime,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-jensen/the-gen-y-paradox-an-entire-generation-of-employees-with-the-attitude/)

[Bill Jensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-jensen/)

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> [“Joshua to Angela: "Please, Angela, do it for me… and you never know you just might have fun." She looked at him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patti-roberts/joshua-to-angela-please-angela-do-it-for-me-and-you-never-know-you/)

[Patti Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patti-roberts/)

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> [The twisty nature of psychic attack - are you being attacked, or did you bring this attack on yourself? - speaks to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heidi-julavits/the-twisty-nature-of-psychic-attack-are-you-being-attacked-or-did-you/)

[Heidi Julavits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heidi-julavits/)

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> [“The Paradox: how do you lose something you never had? The answer: There was another way to have. A transparent stretch of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katie-roiphe/the-paradox-how-do-you-lose-something-you-never-had-the-answer-there/)

[Katie Roiphe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katie-roiphe/)

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> [Paul Otremba’s remarkable first book, The Currency, is an intriguing foray into lyric epistemology that tries to come to ter ms with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-collier/paul-otremba-s-remarkable-first-book-the-currency-is-an-intriguing/)

[Michael Collier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-collier/)

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> [“Certainly I wouldn't be writing this book, on this subject, if living with freedom were easy. The paradox seems to be, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pressfield/certainly-i-wouldn-t-be-writing-this-book-on-this-subject-if-living/)

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

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> [The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/the-great-arises-out-of-small-things-that-are-honored-and-cared-for-2/)

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

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> [“True belonging is not something you negotiate externally, it’s what you carry in your heart. It’s finding the sacredness in being a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bren-brown/true-belonging-is-not-something-you-negotiate-externally-it-s-what/)

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

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> [It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-l-engle/it-is-all-as-usual-paradox-i-have-to-use-what-intellect-i-have-in/)

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

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> [“The paradox—and a fearful paradox it is—is that the American Negro can have no future anywhere, on any continent, as long as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-baldwin/the-paradox-and-a-fearful-paradox-it-is-is-that-the-american-negro/)

[James Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-baldwin/)

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> [“It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has created God. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bela-bartok/it-is-odd-that-the-bible-says-god-created-man-whereas-it-is-the-other/)

[Béla Bartók](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bela-bartok/)

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> [On the one hand, we all want to be happy. On the other hand, we all know the things that make us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-kelly/on-the-one-hand-we-all-want-to-be-happy-on-the-other-hand-we-all-know/)

[Matthew Kelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-kelly/)

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> [ If we have free will, by definition we cannot be granted it. We can't be given it. My \[-audio-recording-distorted-\] paradox states that… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/if-we-have-free-will-by-definition-we-cannot-be-granted-it-we-can-t/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [One ironic thing is that although (the Soviet Union) was one of the most oppressive systems, with no respect for the individual,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabe-polsky/one-ironic-thing-is-that-although-the-soviet-union-was-one-of-the/)

[Gabe Polsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabe-polsky/)

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> [If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-adams/if-the-universe-came-to-an-end-every-time-there-was-some-uncertainty/)

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

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> [When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/when-you-read-a-great-book-you-don-t-escape-from-life-you-plunge/)

[Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/)

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> [“Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We , and there is a paradox about personal love.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carson-mccullers/love-is-the-bridge-that-leads-from-the-i-sense-to-the-we-and-there-is/)

[Carson McCullers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carson-mccullers/)

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> [It's like a paradox. For one side, being popularized rap got better and the other side of it got worse. It's very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ice-t/it-s-like-a-paradox-for-one-side-being-popularized-rap-got-better-and/)

[Ice T](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ice-t/)

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> [The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-nepo/the-paradox-is-that-we-have-this-amazing-capacity-in-our-minds-and/)

[Mark Nepo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-nepo/)

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> [One of the paradoxes of liberal societies arises from the commitment to tolerance. A society committed to respecting the viewpoints and customs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-minow/one-of-the-paradoxes-of-liberal-societies-arises-from-the-commitment/)

[Martha Minow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-minow/)

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> [“Man requires a healing education which returns him to himself. Rousseau's paradoxes- his attack on the arts and the sciences and his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allan-bloom/man-requires-a-healing-education-which-returns-him-to-himself/)

[Allan Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allan-bloom/)

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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/)

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

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> [“Yet the paradox is that scientific methodology is the product of human hands and thus cannot reach some permanent truth. We build…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-kalanithi/yet-the-paradox-is-that-scientific-methodology-is-the-product-of/)

[Paul Kalanithi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-kalanithi/)

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> [“Oh, just some crap about the essential paradox of man: How we refuse to juxtapose the absolute to the relative, and some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-adly-guirgis/oh-just-some-crap-about-the-essential-paradox-of-man-how-we-refuse-to/)

[Stephen Adly Guirgis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-adly-guirgis/)

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> [The paradox of love is that to have it is to want to preserve it because it's perfect in the moment but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elisabeth-eaves/the-paradox-of-love-is-that-to-have-it-is-to-want-to-preserve-it/)

[Elisabeth Eaves](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elisabeth-eaves/)

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> [The central paradox of motherhood is that while our children become the absolute center of our lives, they must also push us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-goodman/the-central-paradox-of-motherhood-is-that-while-our-children-become/)

[Ellen Goodman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-goodman/)

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                        "text": "I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to liberty itself (paradox though it may seem) to let the slavery of the other states alone; while, on the other hand, I hold it to be equally clear, that we should never knowingly lend ourselves directly or indirectly, to prevent that slavery from dying a natural death--to find new places for it to live in, when it can no longer exist in the old.",
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                        "text": "I recently got back from Hiroshima and it was fascinating to me how the Japanese accommodate this paradox. We were talking about this word aware, which on the page looks like \"aware,\" which speaks to both the pain and the beauty of our lives. Being there, what I perceived was that this is a sorrow that is not a grief that one forgets or recovers from, but it is a burning, searing illumination of love for the delicacy and strength of our relations.",
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                        "text": "It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as by a series of paradoxes in what confronts that identity. It is less perplexed by the question \"Who am I?\" than by some such riddle as \"Where is here?",
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                        "text": "“This kindness, this stupid kindness, is what is most truly human in a human being. It is what sets man apart, the highest achievement of his soul. No, it says, life is not evil! This kindness is both senseless and wordless. It is instinctive, blind. When Christianity clothed it in the teachings of the Church Fathers, it began to fade; its kernel became a husk. It remains potent only while it is dumb and senseless, hidden in the living darkness of the human heart – before it becomes a tool or commodity in the hands of preachers, before its crude ore is forged into the gilt coins of holiness. It is as simple as life itself. Even the teachings of Jesus deprived it of its strength. But, as I lost faith in good, I began to lose faith even in kindness. It seemed as beautiful and powerless as dew. What use was it if it was not contagious? How can one make a power of it without losing it, without turning it into a husk as the Church did? Kindness is powerful only while it is powerless. If Man tries to give it power, it dims, fades away, loses itself, vanishes.”",
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                        "text": "It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers assumed by others; and in those regions of darkness and ignorance where man cannot effect even those things that are within the power of man, there we shall ever find that a blind belief in feats that are far beyond those powers has taken the deepest root in the minds of the deceived, and produced the richest harvest to the knavery of the deceiver.",
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                        "text": "It was time to expect more of myself. Yet as I thought about happiness, I kept running up against paradoxes. I wanted to change myself but accept myself. I wanted to take myself less seriously -- and also more seriously. I wanted to use my time well, but I also wanted to wander, to play, to read at whim. I wanted to think about myself so I could forget myself. I was always on the edge of agitation; I wanted to let go of envy and anxiety about the future, yet keep my energy and ambition.",
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                        "text": "The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the deeper our love, the more pain its loss will bring: these are a few of the paradoxes we must hold as human beings. If we refuse to hold them in the hopes of living without doubt, despair, and pain, we also find ourselves living without faith, hope, and love.",
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                        "text": "I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. Petals are bone marrow; pearls come from oysters. The dragon lives in the sky, ocean, marshes, and mountains; and the mountains are also its cranium. Its voice thunders and jingles like copper pans. It breathes fire and water; and sometimes the dragon is one, sometimes many.",
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                        "text": "What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer must take the form of a paradox: a purposeful purposeless or a purposeless play. This play, however, is an affirmation of life--not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we’re living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and one’s desires out of its way and lets it act of its own accord.",
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                        "text": "“The paradox is that by being ‘in love’ we are in fact falling in love with ourselves, and we have an opportunity to see ourselves in the eyes of another. It is an ecstatic place to be, the dance of romantic love, and one that cannot be denied, for it is the place where we are most likely to experience a divine tango with our soul. Love and myth go hand in hand, for myth is the most exquisite mirror of all for the reflection of self.”",
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                        "text": "One of the paradoxes that makes the internet such a suggestive place is that, on the one hand, we perceive it as perpetually in motion and changing, and, on the other hand, it has this god-like immortality to it: It seems like it won't die and is not subject to decay, and that everything can be unwound, unlike present-tense experience, where you can't archive the present moment, you can't go back and read it over again. That's the fundamental hallmark of the internet.",
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                        "text": "“A heartbreaking paradox: if only I can finish my work so that it will live. Yet if it is finished, completed , a part of me but departed from me, I lost it alive, living but separate; and if it does not leave me, it is incomplete, insufficient, and half-dead that I keep it.”",
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                        "text": "“In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, \"I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away.\" To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: \"If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.\" This paradox rests on the most elementary common sense. The gate or fence did not grow there. It was not set up by somnambulists who built it in their sleep. It is highly improbable that it was put there by escaped lunatics who were for some reason loose in the street. Some person had some reason for thinking it would be a good thing for somebody. And until we know what the reason was, we really cannot judge whether the reason was reasonable. It is extremely probable that we have overlooked some whole aspect of the question, if something set up by human beings like ourselves seems to be entirely meaningless and mysterious. There are reformers who get over this difficulty by assuming that all their fathers were fools; but if that be so, we can only say that folly appears to be a hereditary disease. But the truth is that nobody has any business to destroy a social institution until he has really seen it as an historical institution. If he knows how it arose, and what purposes it was supposed to serve, he may really be able to say that they were bad purposes, that they have since become bad purposes, or that they are purposes which are no longer served. But if he simply stares at the thing as a senseless monstrosity that has somehow sprung up in his path, it is he and not the traditionalist who is suffering from an illusion.”",
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                        "text": "“When you are going on a spiritual path, as I explain it, you are basically raising your vibration. You then begin to understand me better, not by belief, but through your own experiences. The spiritual path is the process of increasing your vibration. That is the meaning of seeing when others are blind, attracting better things that others don't think you can have, and more, all this is part of the process. The only thing you can't do is alter free will. People do have the free will to be stupid if they want to. It's their right to experience their stupidity. As a result, your evolution will take you anywhere, but that doesn't mean others will be there. That's the great paradox of any spiritual journey.”",
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                        "text": "“... the Gen Y paradox: an entire generation of employees with the attitude that they know how to communicate with anybody, anytime, anywhere, and have the tools to back them up, but who need more help with critical thinking than prior generations in pulling meaning and value from all those communications.”",
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                        "text": "“Joshua to Angela: \"Please, Angela, do it for me… and you never know you just might have fun.\" She looked at him warily. \"I find that highly doubtful, Josh.\" \"Well how will you know unless you actually try it?\" \"I just know. Do you have to drink a hot fish milkshake to know you aren’t going to like it?\" She asked.”",
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                        "text": "The twisty nature of psychic attack - are you being attacked, or did you bring this attack on yourself? - speaks to me of an American cultural paradox we all grapple with. There's the rampant litigiousness of our society, and the desire to blame others for our misfortunes.",
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                        "text": "“The Paradox: how do you lose something you never had? The answer: There was another way to have. A transparent stretch of space between you. To love from a distance, through that space, more deeply, more colourfully, so it can be seen from faraway like a flag. Eventually the spave itself fills you. The air entering your body and replacing your blood, running through you. The halfßpleasant feeling of not being here.”",
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                        "text": "Paul Otremba’s remarkable first book, The Currency, is an intriguing foray into lyric epistemology that tries to come to ter ms with the implacable, paradox-ridden nature of knowledge and experience. These are deeply felt, deeply meditated poems guided by a sensibility highly attenuated to the physical world. In their openness to friendship and love and in their fearless directness, they remind me of the work of Larry Levis and Jon Anderson. Like Levis and Anderson, Otremba promises to be an influential and important voice for his generation.",
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                        "text": "“Certainly I wouldn't be writing this book, on this subject, if living with freedom were easy. The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.”",
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                        "text": "The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego. The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is the honoring of small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.",
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                        "text": "“True belonging is not something you negotiate externally, it’s what you carry in your heart. It’s finding the sacredness in being a part of something. When we reach this place, even momentarily, we belong everywhere and nowhere. That seems absurd, but it’s true. Carl Jung argued that a paradox is one of our most valued spiritual possessions and a great witness to the truth. It makes sense to me that we’re called to combat this spiritual crisis of disconnection with one of our most valued spiritual possessions. Bearing witness to the truth is rarely easy, especially when we’re alone in the wilderness.”",
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                        "text": "It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of books I do in order that I may try to set down glimpses of things that are on the other side of the intellect. We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it.",
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                        "text": "“The paradox—and a fearful paradox it is—is that the American Negro can have no future anywhere, on any continent, as long as he is unwilling to accept his past. To accept one’s past—one’s history—is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought. How can the American Negro’s past be used? The unprecedented price demanded—and at this embattled hour of the world’s history—is the transcendence of the realities of color, of nations, and of altars.”",
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                        "text": "“It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has created God. It is odd that the Bible says, ‘The body is mortal, the soul is immortal,’ whereas even here the contrary is true: the body (its matter) is eternal; the soul (the form of the body) is transitory.”",
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                        "text": "On the one hand, we all want to be happy. On the other hand, we all know the things that make us happy. But we don't do those things. Why? Simple. We are too busy. Too busy doing what? Too busy trying to be happy. This is the paradox of happiness that has bewitched our age.",
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                        "text": "If we have free will, by definition we cannot be granted it. We can't be given it. My [-audio-recording-distorted-] paradox states that 'Of course we have free will, we have no choice.' To say that it's a gift is to negate the whole concept of free will on its face. So, if that isn't self-evident, I can't think of anything that would meet the definition of being self-evident.",
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                        "text": "One ironic thing is that although (the Soviet Union) was one of the most oppressive systems, with no respect for the individual, it somehow produced the freest hockey on the planet. These guys, when they got on the ice, it was like watching jazz. They could do anything. I find that a paradox. It's interesting because I think the North American style was a lot less free. It was not encouraged to be creative.",
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