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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.


Fernand Braudel


#contradictions #despite #difficulties #everything #framework

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.


Oriana Fallaci


#arafat #ask #contradicts #even #every

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.


Thomas Babington Macaulay


#community #competent #contradiction #direct #habits

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.


Robert Collier


#desires #different #different directions #directions #equal

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.


Karl Von Clausewitz


#even #false #intelligence #many #more

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.


John Bates Clark


#answer #assertions #commission #contradictions #experience

To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.


Lukas Foss


#genius #indeed #mozart #qualities #understand

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.


Michael Haneke


#close #closer #contradictions #dream #dream world

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.


Douglas Hofstadter


#contradicts #itself #sentence

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.


Ayn Rand


#contradiction #contradictions #exist #facing #find






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