Malcolm X
Civil Rights Activist, Minister
"America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up."
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Paradoxical
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Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"Truth is always paradoxical."
George Eliot
Novelist, Poet, Journalist
"Human experience is usually paradoxical."
Benjamin Graham
Investor, Author
"There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that market."
Salvador Dali
Artist, Surrealist
"[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man."
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"The truth often sounds paradoxical."
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"It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it."
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"The words of truth are always paradoxical. To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders."
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"Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical."
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"The truest sayings are paradoxical."
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"Truth sounds paradoxical!"
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"How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory."
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