"To hope is to contradict the future." — Emile M. Cioran

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• I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive. — Paul Auster
• Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider. — Francis Bacon
• I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a… — David Chalmers
• Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their… — Jonathan Swift
• Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not,… — George Washington
• At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are… — Lucretius
• To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulne­ss while telling carefully constructe­d lies, to hold simultaneo­usly… — George Orwell
• When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or… — Frederic Bastiat
• A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free… — Carl Sagan
• Two truths cannot contradict one another. — Galileo Galilei
• Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves. — Antonio Machado
• Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human… — Thomas Jefferson

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