427 Quotes About Paradox
- Author Mark X.
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We are killing, every one of us, every moment of the day - just by living. And if one realizes this, is this very realization itself not a conscious consent to murder? If a truly circumspect Jain was truly serious about not killing anything, wouldn't his only recourse be to kill himself?
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- Author James Baldwin
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He smiled, "Why, you will go home and then you will find that home is not home anymore. Then you will really be in trouble. As long as you stay here, you can always think: One day I will go home." He played with my thumb and grinned. "N'est-ce pas?""Beautiful logic," I said. "You mean I have a home to go to as long as I don't go there?"He laughed. "Well, isn't it true? You don't have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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- Author Justin K. McFarlane Beau
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There is more clarity in paradoxical truths, than there is in a single act of bold stupidity.
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- Author Harlow Shapley
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No one trusts a model except the man who wrote it; everyone trusts an observation, except the man who made it.
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- Author Tennessee Williams
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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- Author Susan Beth Pfeffer
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I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
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- Author Rodney Ulyate
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I don't often agree with me either; there's much, in fact, with which I disagree. But that's probably because I'm so dashed ingenious that I haven't a clue what I'm saying.
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- Author Khang Kijarro Nguyen
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Abled does not mean enabled.Disabled does not mean less abled.
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- Author S. J. Kincaid
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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 wonderful gun duels. She'd killed most of their group, too, and shown everyone that she wasn't getting promoted only because of her programming skills. Her dislike of fighting had paradoxically turned her into a lethal killing machine.
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