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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact. ↗

— Roland Allen

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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth. ↗

— Roland Barthes

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Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. ↗

— Leo Rosten

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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions. ↗

— Dorothy Height

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There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself. ↗

— Robert De Niro

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There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore. ↗

— Evan Parker

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