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Contradiction Quotes

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"Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust."
Kenneth Rexroth
"Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust."
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"Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy."
Jim Jarmusch
"Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy."
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"Good morning is a contradiction of terms."
Jim Davis
"Good morning is a contradiction of terms."
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"Isn't it a shame that some people's 'weaknesses' can be so strong."
Stanley Victor Paskavich
"Isn't it a shame that some people's 'weaknesses' can be so strong."
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"I know a man who drives 600 yards to work. I know a woman who gets in her car to go a quarter of a mile to a college gymnasium to walk on a treadmill, then complains passionately about the difficulty of finding a parking space. When I asked her once why she didn't walk to the gym and do five minutes less on the treadmill, she looked at me as if I were being willfully provocative. 'Because I have a program for the treadmill,' she explained. 'It records my distance and speed, and I can adjust it for degree of difficulty.' It hadn't occurred to me how thoughtlessly deficient nature is in this regard."
Bill Bryson
"I know a man who drives 600 yards to work. I know a woman who gets in her car to go a quarter of a mile to a college gymnasium to walk on a treadmill, then complains passionately about the difficulty of finding a parking space. When I asked her once why she didn't walk to the gym and do five minutes less on the treadmill, she looked at me as if I were being willfully provocative. 'Because I have a program for the treadmill,' she explained. 'It records my distance and speed, and I can adjust it for degree of difficulty.' It hadn't occurred to me how thoughtlessly deficient nature is in this regard."
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"Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside."
Barbara Tuchman
"Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside."
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"Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with confusing and contradictory mix of guilt and innocence, hatred and love, concern and unconcern, and any number of other pairings of polar opposites? Or were most people one thing or the other - good or bad, cheerful or crotchety, generous or miserly, and so on."
Mary Balogh
"Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with confusing and contradictory mix of guilt and innocence, hatred and love, concern and unconcern, and any number of other pairings of polar opposites? Or were most people one thing or the other - good or bad, cheerful or crotchety, generous or miserly, and so on."
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