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• The paradox: there can be no pilgrimage without a destination, but the destination is also not the real point of the endeavor. Not the destination, but the willingness to wander in pursuit characterizes pilgrimage. Willingness: to hear the tales along the way, to make the casual choices of travel, to acquiesce even to boredom. That's pilgrimage -- a mind full of journey.

  Patricia Hampl

  Real, Journey, Boredom

  Patricia Hampl (1993). “Spillville: A Collaboration”, Milkweed Editions

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• I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves noted.

  Horace Walpole

  Men, Effort, Style

  Horace Walpole (1848). “Letters Addressed to the Countess of Ossory, from the Year 1769 to 1797: Now First Printed from Original Mss. Edited, with Notes, by R. Vernon Smith”, p.538

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• The people we love are usually stronger than we give them credit for. It is the nature of love, perhaps, to want to shoulder all the pain rather than see the loved one suffer. But sometimes pain is better than emptiness. I have been so empty Kit. All my life. So full of emptiness. That is strange paradox is nit not - full of emptiness?

  Mary Balogh

  Pain, People, Giving

  Mary Balogh (2010). “A Summer To Remember: Number 2 in series”, p.164, Hachette UK

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• Christian ethics demand that you should not take revenge. The paradox is, naturally, that Christians worship a God who is the greatest avenger of them all. Defy him and you burn in eternal hell, an act of revenge which is completely out of proportion to the crime

  Jo Nesbo

  Christian, Revenge, Demand

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• Here is the paradox of Christian living. We must give up control of self to gain self control.

  Andy Mineo

  Christian, Giving Up, Self

  FaceBook post by Andy Mineo from Jul 22, 2013

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• This Force, by troth, I'll never comprehend! It doth control and also doth obey? And 'tis within and yet it is beyond, 'Tis both inside and yet outside one's self? What paradox! What fickle-natur'd pow'r! Aye: frailty, thy name-- belike--is Force.

  Ian Doescher

  Self, Names, Fickle

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• As an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest. I mean, I like a good thrill. Thrillers are my favorite. I like stuff that keeps you on the edge of your seat or maybe makes you jump. But what I don't like is the gore. I don't like gratuitous violence and killing and all that kind of stuff. So it's kind of an interesting paradox.

  Corey Feldman

  Mean, Interesting, Adults

  "Corey Feldman on child actors, his favorite roles, and the Goonies sequel". Interview by Will Harris, www.avclub.com. December 10, 2012.

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• Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe. There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.

  Agnes Denes

  Keys, Numbers, Mind

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• The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.

  Pico Iyer

  Machines, Use, Information

  "The Joy of Quiet" by Pico Iyer, www.nytimes.com. December 29, 2011.

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• The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in them, but he isn't part of whatever the fabric is that makes a nation.

  William Faulkner

  Artist, Fabric, Littles

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• The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox.

  Simon Critchley

  Odd, Currents, Theory

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• The existence of God is not logically necessary, and yet, on the basis of some profound peculiar empirical order in the universe, it seems that He exists as the ultimate uncreated Being, implying a paradox, as no logically unnecessary entity can be uncreated. This paradox is the ultimate question asked by God, who is nothing but the ultimate questioner.

  Kedar Joshi

  Order, Profound, Peculiar

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• It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more.

  David Brin

  Past, Paradise, Replacements

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• The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base on them any demonstration whatsoever. By using them, one may draw any conclusion he pleases and that is why these series have produced so many fallacies and so many paradoxes.

  Niels Henrik Abel

  Science, Devil, Divergent

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• A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

  Aristotle

  Science, Lines, Way

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• One paradox I have found is that, the more you use computers in picture-making, the more hand-made the picture becomes. Oddly, then, digital technology is leading, in my work at least, toward a greater reliance on handmaking because the assembly and montage of the various parts of the picture is done very carefully by hand.

  Jeff Wall

  Technology, Hands, Digital

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• The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.

  Kedar Joshi

  World, Contradiction, Universe

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• Parents can ruin children, and sometimes that's a learned behavior. Sometimes you can't blame your parents for it, sometimes you can. I think to me, that's what the whole paradox is, is people that have children that don't even know how to raise them.

  Terry McMillan

  Children, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One ironic thing is that although (the Soviet Union) was one of the most oppressive systems, with no respect for the individual, it somehow produced the freest hockey on the planet. These guys, when they got on the ice, it was like watching jazz. They could do anything. I find that a paradox. It's interesting because I think the North American style was a lot less free. It was not encouraged to be creative.

  Gabe Polsky

  Hockey, Thinking, Ice

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• Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and power, the depth of its injury to black Americans, the shocking nearness in time of its true end - can we reconcile the paradoxes of current American life.

  Douglas A. Blackmon

  Black, Depth, Connections

  Douglas A. Blackmon (2012). “Slavery by Another Name: The re-enslavement of black americans from the civil war to World War Two”, p.381, Icon Books

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• Here is a paradox. It would seem that there cannot be surrealism and photography, but only photography or surrealism.

  Rosalind E. Krauss

  Photography, Surrealism, Seems

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• Even in pure mathematics they can't remove all paradox, and the rest of us should also recognize we are going to have to endure a lot of paradox, like it or not.

  Charlie Munger

  Mathematics, Should, Endure

  Charlie Munger's remarks at the breakfast meeting of the philantropy round table, November 10, 2000.

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• Oh my God, does art engender humanity? It awakens your humanity. But humanity has nothing to do with political theory. Political theory is in the interests of one group of humanity, or one ideal for humanity. But humanity-my heavens, that's what proper art renders. We have a paradox. Going into the deepest aspects of inner space connects you with something that is the most vital for the outer realm.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Space, Political

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• Only Christ could build a bridge to God with only two pieces of wood. The Christian life is a life of paradoxes. We must give to receive, realize we are blind to see, become simple to be wise, suffer for gain, and die to live. If I might be the means of saving one soul I should prefer it to all the riches and honor in the world

  Asahel Nettleton

  Christian, Wise, Mean

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• And that we cannot go to space with our feet in the mud. Nor can we in fact turn ourselves into an eco-sensitive hallucinogenic-based culture on Earth unless we fuse these dichotomous opposites. It is only in a coincidencia oppositorum, a union of opposites, that does not strive for closure, that we are going to find cultural sanity. And this is the thing that the entheogens, the hallucinogens, deliver with such clarity and regularity. They raise paradox to a level of intensity that no one can evade.

  Terence McKenna

  Opposites, Feet, Space

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