"If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties."
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"If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will."
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"Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity"
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"We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life, not life to years."
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"That's the paradox. Since we can spend as long as we want, we worked so much faster than we used to. I think that when you don't have the pressure anymore, the ideas come faster."
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"There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren; the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death."
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"[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention."
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"It's the "Success Paradox." When a set of behaviors has gotten you somewhere, you keep doing them even though the circumstances have changed."
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"That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox."
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"Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it."
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