"I think George Washington owned guns. I've never seen any contradiction with that."
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"We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what our love was called. I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth."
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"It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education."
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"Holy War is a contradiction of terms."
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"A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it."
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"I'm aware that I'm kind of a paradox, and at times a bit ill-suited to my profession. But there's something that brings me back. There's something in me that feels like I have to do this, that this is what I'm meant to be doing. If I didn't feel this way, I wouldn't do it. But it's full of contradictions, for sure."
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"Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him."
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"Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments."
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"Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this."
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"Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another."
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"I think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to be forced to live in contradiction."
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"No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge."
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"There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises."
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"All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it."
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"Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved."
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"Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy."
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"Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms."
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"God is cruel and not cruel. He is all being and not being at the same time. Hence He is all contradictions. Nature also is nothing but a mass of contradictions."
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"I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all."
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"I like complicated women. I like women with strength and contradictions."
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