"I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth."

Paradox, Contradiction, Truth, Wisdom

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"I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth."

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"You cannot identify an enemy without becoming one."

R. A. Delmonico, American Author

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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

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

Lord Byron, British Poet

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

Philip Pullman, British Writer

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"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

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"I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth."

Patti Smith, American Musician

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

Ovid, Roman Poet

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

John Updike, American Novelist

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"What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do not come from the insane but, the sane!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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

Christopher Moore, American Novelist

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"I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship."

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"Secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not."

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"We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in danger of spiritual starvation. We feared it losing its sense of purpose, we feared it falling into fattened hands, we feared it floundering in a mire of spectacle, finance, and vapid technical complexity."

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"I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth."

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