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A church without a missions or a mission without the church are both contradictions. Such things do exist, but only as pseudostructures — Unknown Author
If we celebrate life with all its contradictions, embrace, experience, and ultimately live with it, a chance exists for a spiritual life filled not only… — Derrick Jensen
The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms. — Ayn Rand
I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching. — Roger Nash Baldwin
The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction. — Benjamin Tucker
The Christian is a [person] of joy... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has done Christianity more… — William Barclay
It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be… — Herbert Read
Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all the… — Steven Saylor
To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction. — G. Campbell Morgan
The challenge of preventing any further proliferation of nuclear weapons is just such a trial in the quest for world peace, one that cannot be… — Daisaku Ikeda
The great mathematician fully, almost ruthlessly, exploits the domain of permissible reasoning and skirts the impermissible. That his recklessness does not lead him into a… — Eugene Wigner
If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served… — Michael Pollan
He must also know evil, hate and bigotry as real phenomena, but he must see love as the greater force. He must not doubt this… — Leo Buscaglia
Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting of reading books,… — Vernon Howard
Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the… — Swami Vivekananda
Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching. — Trofim Lysenko
To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment. — Sally Schneider
There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled Nature.'" The obvious contradiction… — Robert A. Heinlein
Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding. — Peter Brook
There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that change (planned or… — Andy Hargreaves
A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by… — Theodor Adorno
These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides. — Swami Vivekananda
God is cruel and not cruel. He is all being and not being at the same time. Hence He is all contradictions. Nature also is… — Swami Vivekananda
In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because… — Swami Vivekananda

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