Paradoxically Quotes
84 quotes by 78 authors
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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
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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
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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
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Here's what I didn't know when I was starting out that I now know…I thought when you were starting out it was really hard to…
— Shane Black
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds
— Elfriede Jelinek
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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
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Introverts paradoxically pull away from culture and create culture.
— Laurie Helgoe
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 Žižek
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Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient.
— Tom Hodgkinson
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