#contradict

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#intelligence #military #military intelligence #terms

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#correcting #correction #criticism #inspirational #dreams

In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe. ↗

— George Saunders

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...how absurd human beings are and how magnificent. ↗

— Benjamin Zander

#contradiction #creativity #possibility #talent #art

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with. ↗

— Garry Trudeau

#contradictions #i #live #most #people

A king who’s innocent of the things of which he’s guilty? ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#humor #king #humor

It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave. ↗

— Trudi Canavan

#humor #humor

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely. ↗

— J. L. Austin

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War is essential for peace ↗

— Ram Mohan

#inspiration #irony #peace #though #war

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity. ↗

— Richard Kadrey

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