"You cannot identify an enemy without becoming one."

Paradox, Conflict, Identity, Reflection, Violence

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"You cannot identify an enemy without becoming one."

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"I agree. I don't understand how a guy everyone is terrified of makes me feel safe. I don't understand how a guy who stayed behind to protect me when he didn't know me has been shot. I don't understand how a guy who carried me out of an alley full of shattered glass is the enemy everyone is warning me about."

Katie McGarry, American Author

Paradox, Safety, Trust, Heroism

"And after all what is a lie? Tis but The truth in masquerade."

Lord Byron, British Poet

Paradox, Truth, Lies, Deception, Appearance

"I am a religious person, although I am not a believer."

Philip Pullman, British Writer

Paradox, Religion, Belief, Spiritual

"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?"

Steven Wright, American Comedian

Paradox, Cats, Humor, Science

"Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas' - 'Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses'."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Paradox, Beauty, Pain, Contrast, Hope

"Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains."

John Updike, American Novelist

Paradox, Chaos, Order, Divinity, Rebellion

"Love: the sickest of Irony's sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die."

Christopher Moore, American Novelist

Paradox, Love, Irony, Logic, Chaos

"There is no cure for madness except the madness as the cure."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

Paradox, Madness, Cure, Life

"He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

Paradox, Genius, Life, Mistake, Confusion

"This has always bothered me. If "Change" is the only constant how can we have absolutes?"

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

Paradox, Truth, Change, Logic

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"Information is a difference that makes a difference. Truth is information that doesn't change and self referential noise is a difference that doesn't make a difference."

Knowledge

"Those that control the definitions, steer the culture as they please."

Culture

"There is great beauty in the world but you will not trip over it with every step. When a man dulls himself to beauty, the world begins to die."

Beauty

"Innocence is the ability to see things for what they are."

Innocence

"If you zoom in far enough, the information is there but it contains no meaning. The meaning emerges as a collective principle of organization."

Education

"Imagination is the connecting of disparate things in novel ways."

Creativity

"You can't make a difference, if you don't know what it is."

Awareness

"While you were asleep, the world changed. The possibilities that live in dreams require the actions of the awoken. The possibilities are tied to agendas. The balancing force between greed and love is not stable, it is fractal. Rogue waves exist and just because you haven't seen one does not entitle you to remain ignorant."

Possibility

"The energy contained in hatred is destructive, the energy contained in love is constructive."

Emotion

"Many of the things that grownups have chosen to ignore, the child understands deeply."

Childhood