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How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms. — George Bernard Shaw
What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in… — Lord Byron
All concord's born of contraries. — Ben Jonson
Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties.… — Mary Baker Eddy
Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies… — Helen Keller
A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every moment we are… — Swami Vivekananda
Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are… — Swami Vivekananda
What I hear about the book does not sound like the Scott McClellan I knew for two years. I can say, without fear of contradiction,… — Jeff Gannon
Yes. The way people behave, the paradoxes, the contradictions. All these things we have to live with and still pretend that everything is only black… — Vincent Cassel
We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what our love was… — Patti Smith
Much of the left's hate speech bears greater similarity to a psychological disorder than to standard political discourse. The hatred is blinding, producing logical contradictions… — Ann Coulter
The Patriot Act was used against me in total contradiction to its stated purpose. Or perhaps it was the most logical use of the law,… — Unknown Author
In the whole history of movies, there has been nothing like Kubrick's vision. It was a vision of hope and wonder, of grace and of… — Steven Spielberg
It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when you're young and… — Paul Merton
The vision I would like to see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state...I very much favour democracy, but when there… — Avigdor Lieberman
Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God. — Thomas Aquinas
Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I… — Jessica Hagedorn
Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called… — Thomas Paine
I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced… — Mikhail Lermontov
There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first chapter of Genesis.… — Madeleine L'Engle
The philosophy of praxis does not aim at the peaceful resolution of existing contradictions in history and society, but is the very theory of these… — Antonio Gramsci
The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation. Humility is not… — Richard Baxter
It is a contradiction to be a true Christian and not humble. — Richard Baxter
The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with… — Emile M. Cioran
Life is never free of contradictions — Manmohan Singh

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