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Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as...

—Michael Michalko

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The Paradox of Freedom—the way to expand your freedom is to narrow your focus. Stay focused on saving to achieve financial freedom. Stay focused on training to achieve physical freedom. Stay focused on learning to...

—James Clear

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The only way to be completely self-consistent is to be constantly uttering paradoxes.

—Bauvard

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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

—Carl R.

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I’m not offended until you think I’m offended.

—Criss Jami

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This book does not exist. And even if it did, it wouldn’t be worth buying or reading.

—Jarod Kintz

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We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.

—Konstantin Jireček

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You are never too old to become younger!

—Mae West

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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

—Michel de

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Failing to plan, is like planning to fail.

—Stephen McCranie

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It’s a bit like staring into another dimension, one that has a different set of mathematical and physical laws. For me, it also serves as reminder that that the mind of God is unknowable, that...

—Anna Jarzab

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Pops added,”you know, they say if you don’t vote, you get the government you deserve.””And if you do, you never get the results you expected,” (Katherine) replied.

—E.A. Bucchianeri

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He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.

—Douglas Adams

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I was the kid next door’s imaginary friend.

—Emo Philips

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Those who cannot have your love, will gladly accept your hatred.

—Justin K.

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My father told me that it is only a mad man that keeps bushy hairs. I asked him, “what about the great men with bushy hairs?”. He replied, “education had made them mad, so study...

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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And the end of this paradox is that only when the child is thus free can he have the proper attachment to his parents; only when we allow his independence can he then freely offer...

—Sydney J.

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It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.

—Piero Scaruffi

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Love is not a purpose, it’s a paradox; it’s not an end-goal, it’s an auxiliary fuel source to help get there.

—A.J. Darkholme

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A circle has no end.

—Isaac Asimov

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As a rule,I believe people shouldn’t follow rules;rules should follow people.

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Baisu ne tai, kas pasakyta, bet tai, kas nutylėta

—Ernest Hello

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FV: Annandale defines ‘definition’ as “an explanation of the signification of a term.” Yet Oxford, on the other hand, defines it as “a statement of the precise meaning of a word.” A small, perhaps negligible...

—Mort W.

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The pile of stones thus marks both an act of deliberate remembrance, and an act of deliberate forgetting. They’re fond of paradox in that region.

—Margaret Atwood

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Wyatt avoided the petty gunfights and headed to a saloon and rigged up a bunch of Molotov cocktails. Her firebombs against members of Tom and Vik’s posse had destroyed the scenario’s promise of so many...

—S. J.

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Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

—Albert Einstein

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Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.

—Alexander Pushkin

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Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution.

—Edward Teller

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I am the Vending Machine of Love. Exact change only. The price is 33.3 cents.

—Jarod Kintz

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Rain never falls on a cloud.

—Marty Rubin

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…but that was the thing about reality. It didn’t need to make sense.

—Mira Grant

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Ir grūti kādu visu mūžu ienīst, un tad piepeši… nekā, vairs pilnīgi nekā.

—Silvana De

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I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.

—Susan Beth Pfeffer

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Writer’s write because they’re writers.

—Brian McBride

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Ah, it is impossible.””No, it is only very difficult – so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!

—E.D.E.N. Southworth

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The argument goes something like this: “I refuse to prove that I exist,” says God, “for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

—Douglas Adams

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Give me an honest con man any day.

—J.D. Salinger

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Perhaps the saddest part of coexistence is the concept of interdependence being necessary for any form of solidarity to be realized. Being encouraged to lean on the weak, does not sound like a long term...

—Justin K.

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The subtleties of the mind cannot be transmitted in words, but can be seen in words.

—Juefan Huihong

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That’s the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they’re suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That’s why the things...

—Ted Hughes

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Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly hero. Most writers spend their lives writing about unexpected malice in the supposedly...

—Thomas Keneally

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Many came to Jesus expecting him to solve their problems. Instead he helped them to connect to their own faith and their own wisdom.

—Amos Smith

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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

—George Bernard

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Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man?

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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Or–to quote another paradoxical gem of my dad’s: sometimes you have to lose to win.

—Donna Tartt

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Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life’s sorrow with grace.

—Matthew Fox

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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

—Rita Mae

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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

—Tennessee Williams

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All generalizations are false, including this one.

—Albert Einstein

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Kur vispār zināšanas cilvēci novedušas? Pie atombumbām, nāvīgām gāzēm un visādiem nāves rīkiem. Nebūtu augstskolu, ļaudis izkautos ar rungām, dabūtu punus un zilumus un – atkal varētu slēgt mieru.Pārspīlētas pieklājības klusinātajā gammā katrs spēcīgāks akords...

—Anšlavs Eglītis

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