"Nations without a past are contradictions in terms.……" — Eric Hobsbawm

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• This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated,… — Mikhail Bakunin
• He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely… — Douglas Adams
• What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the… — Roland Barthes
• I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. — Georges Bataille
• Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction. — William Blake
• Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death,… — Andre Breton
• I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary… — Fidel Castro
• I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the… — Charlie Chaplin
• Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer… — Winston Churchill
• It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all… — Simone de Beauvoir
• ...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether… — Thomas Paine

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