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Contradictory Quotes by Junot Diaz
- You can't find intimacy-you can't find home-when you're always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of…
- Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful…
- Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and what it means to…
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- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. — Charles Baudelaire
- The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise,… — Andrew Carnegie
- Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. — Carl von Clausewitz
- We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don't know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should… — Sogyal Rinpoche
- The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense,… — Kurt Lewin
- We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates… — Margaret Mead
- The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements.… — W. Somerset Maugham
- Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our… — Marcel Proust
- Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been… — Annie Besant
- At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre… — Carl Sagan
- I am convinced that this is the only means of advancing science, of clearing the mind from a confused heap of contradictory… — Joshua Reynolds