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Life is never free of contradictions.


Manmohan Singh


#free #life #never

I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you get a brain of a certain character you get consciousness going along with it.


David Chalmers


#brain #certain #character #consciousness #contradict

Double standards are inspiration to men of letters, but they are apt to be fatal to politicians.


Henry Adams


#paradox #education

The Tausennigan Ob'enn warlords look like cuddly teddy-bears? Yes, they do, and they'd cheerfully exterminate your entire race for making that observation! I guess that explains their rich military history, then. -Ennesbey & Petey


Howard Tayler


#contradictions #cuddly #humour #military #overreaction

Seemed she should learn to smile when she was unhappy, to stop laughing, to speak up, to never speak to strangers, to share guilt for the acts of strangers, that strangers made the laws of the land, that the laws of the land valued things over life, that life ended if a stranger decided it, to be where she could be found, to feel one thing and do another. How could she hang so many contradictions in one skull


Steve Aylett


#life #love #life

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.


Saint Augustine


#bathed #contradictory #experience #extracting #find

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.


Freda Adler


#conformity #contradiction #creative #creature #define

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.


David Antin


#contradictory #disney #fortune #idea #imaginary

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.


Charles Baudelaire


#contradictory #ecstasy #feelings #felt #heart

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






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