Paradoxically Quotes

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Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds could be… — Edward Said
The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so… — Margot Fonteyn
Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want to see or… — David Foster Wallace
Here's what I didn't know when I was starting out that I now knowâ€¦I thought when you were starting out it was really hard to… — Shane Black
A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is to… — Mark Strand
Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person. — David D. Burns
The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other. The goal of marriage is unity and oneness, as well as self-development.… — Ezra Taft Benson
Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader-a dictator-willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures, which few know how, or are willing,… — Michael A. Ledeen
In order to do a good job a person must like what he or she is doing....'Love thy work', and you will be successful..... If… — Konosuke Matsushita
Among other grand achievements, F. A. Hayek had a remarkable career pointing out the flaws in collectivism. One of his keenest insights was that, paradoxically,… — Sheldon Richman
Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds — Elfriede Jelinek
The biblical lifestyle is always a witness of resistance to the status quo in politics, economics, and all society. It is a witness of resurrection… — William Stringfellow
Introverts paradoxically pull away from culture and create culture. — Laurie Helgoe
Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposing us to the pain of… — Howard Barker
There is nothing more difficult to outgrow than anxieties that have become useful to us, whether as explanations for a life that never quite finds… — Christian Wiman
Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far… — Andrew Davidson
When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice.... As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have, in the imaginative… — Margaret Atwood
Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with… — Paul Berg
Zionism itself has paradoxically come to adopt some antisemitic logic in its hatred of Jews who do not fully identify with the politics of the… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient. — Tom Hodgkinson

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