"Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing."
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"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."
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"Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm."
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"Change of the unchangeable would be a contradiction."
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"It's funny. Maria Elena and I, we are meant for each other and not meant for each other, it's a contradiction."
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"If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood."
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"The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil."
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"The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me."
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"There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore."
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"Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality."
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"Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God."
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"To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions"
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"One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions."
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"I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict."
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"Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be."
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"Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate; they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions."
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"If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation."
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"Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself."
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"Contradiction is the lever of transcendence."
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"Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive."
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