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Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual findings… — Ernst Mayr
There are urges and urges; you are exploding with urges, desires. You don`t have one desire, you have many desires. Not only that you have… — Rajneesh
...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Effortlessness means not doing anything, inactivity - AKARMA. Effort means doing much, activity - KARMA. Both have to be there. Do much, but don`t be… — Rajneesh
Mind is dual, it always divides things into polar opposites: the conqueror and the conquered, the observer and the observed, the object and the subject,… — Rajneesh
And I'm not a student of religion, but I don't find anything in what the principal teachings of Islam that put us in contradiction at… — George H. W. Bush
The Koran was assembled from a variety of prior Hagarene texts (hence the contradictions re Jesus' death) in order to provide the Moses-like Muhammad with… — Robert M. Price
The will is a product of integrity, not a child of contradictions. — Nilakanta Sri Ram
Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what we know of nature. — Sylvia Fraser
I am convinced that an important stage of human thought will have been reached when the physiological and the psychological, the objective and the subjective,… — Ivan Pavlov
If you would have a clear evidence that little love, that little faith, that little zeal, you have is true? Then live up to that… — Thomas Brooks
[We need not think] that there is any Contradiction, when Philosophy teaches that to be done by Nature; which Religion, and the Sacred Scriptures, teach… — Nehemiah Grew
A good addiction is a contradiction in terms. Anything people can't give up or must have is not healthy, no matter what the activity. — Unknown Author
In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example… — Cyrano de Bergerac
I wanted to start a website for teenaged girls that was not kind of this one-dimensional strong character empowerment thing, because one thing that can… — Tavi Gevinson
You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough friction-that they aren't… — Stanley Kunitz
...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record contradictions. The greatest… — Robert Adams
On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows… — Thomas Carlyle
Socialist thought owes its appeal to the young largely to its visionary character; the very courage to indulge in Utopian thought is in this respect… — Friedrich August von Hayek
If we return to the two faces of individualism - individualism as the spur of energy, initiative, and imagination; and individualism as the limitless struggle… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, her burdens, her needs… — Therese of Lisieux
There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where… — Rabindranath Tagore
No society can exist if respect for the law does not to some extent prevail; but the surest way to have the laws respected is… — Frederic Bastiat
Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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