#dox

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. ↗

— Earl Warren

#failure #found #imperatives #internationalism #most

There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy. ↗

— William Weld

#i #issues #orthodoxy #radically #republican

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. ↗

— George Will

#because #constitute #elite #fascinate #good

The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy. ↗

— Juan Williams

#being #buried #collateral #conversation #correctness

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#become #clear #freedom #ignored #longer

I don’t want you to be sorry. I don’t want you to be anything,” I snapped. Her expression was the final straw. Of course she didn’t want to be around me. I was an infantil asshole that had the emotional control of a three-year-old. I shoved away from the table and pushed through the door, not stopping until I was sitting on my bike. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#beauty

She ripped the wild bun down from the crown of her head, and then brushed her long hair with her fingers. I couldn’t stop staring while she rewrapped it and tied it back again. I imagined that this was what she looked like in the morning, and then had to think about the first ten minutes of Saving Private Ryan to keep my dick from getting hard. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#pidgeon #pizza #travis-maddox #beauty

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart. ↗

— John Grierson

#heart #lie #oblique #paradox #propaganda

The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#aspects #beings #complementary #consciousness #describes

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#irony #layers #paradox #simple #surface