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• I always look for contradiction in a character.

  Rebecca Hall

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  Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

  Ayn Rand

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• I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

  Georges Bataille

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  Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

  G. K. Chesterton

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  Tags in Courage, Desire, Contradiction

• That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

  Freda Adler

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  Tags in Contradiction, Conformity, Change, Heart, Creature

• I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

  Fidel Castro

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• It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.

  Sir Herbert Edward Read

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• When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

  Simone Weil

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• I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.

  Shirley Manson

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• But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists’ chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.

  Garrett Hardin

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• Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

  G. K. Chesterton

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• I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

  Elia Kazan

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• I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.

  Roger Nash Baldwin

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  Tags in Regard, Contradiction, Conscription, Teaching

• We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

  Blaise Pascal

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Conflict, Contradiction, Disguise

• We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.

  Nursultan Nazarbayev

  Tags in Contradiction, Dialogue

• Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.

  Paul Ricoeur

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• Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

  Blaise Pascal

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