"America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up."
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"The truth often sounds paradoxical."
"It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it."
"The words of truth are always paradoxical. To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders."
"Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical."
"The truest sayings are paradoxical."
"Truth sounds paradoxical!"
"How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory."