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I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream… — Michael Haneke
Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and… — Eric Hobsbawm
Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What… — Nikita Khrushchev
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat. — Audre Lorde
Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions. — Shirley MacLaine
You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of… — Bryant H. McGill
The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me. — Thomas Merton
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. — Michel de Montaigne
As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it… — Haruki Murakami
I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened,… — Edward Norton
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities. — Thomas Paine
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. — Ayn Rand
Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided… — Robert Redford
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. — Saint Francis de Sales
The New York gallery scene being as incredibly overpopulated and overmoneyed as it is, deep conflicts and contradictions aren't hard to find. — Jerry Saltz
I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions. — Michelle Shocked
I am a man of contradictions, I suppose. — Rod Stewart
I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions. — Antonio Tabucchi
The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time. — Joan D. Vinge
As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which… — Neale Donald Walsch
As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if… — Hugo Weaving
The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the… — E. O. Wilson
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we've always been about pointing out the irony and contradictions in Christian theology… — Greg Graffin
It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength… — Marya Hornbacher

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