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• Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility written down. I've fused my silence and repression with the entire female gender's silence and repression. I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructive but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world.

  Chris Kraus

  Writing, Thinking, Talking

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• Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game

  Louise Bates Ames

  Parenting, Years, Games

  Louise Bates Ames, Frances L. Ilg (2012). “Your Six-Year-Old: Loving and Defiant”, p.1, Dell

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• Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Believe, Age, Looks

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• It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

  Nikola Tesla

  Opening Up, Intellectual, Ignorant

  Nikola Tesla, Neil Thomas (2017). “Nikola Tesla: 100 Quotes on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Success”, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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• In True Meditation, we're in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.

  Adyashanti

  Yoga, Mean, Meditation

  Adyashanti (2012). “True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness”, p.23, Sounds True

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• [W]isdom consists in following Providence step by step. And you can be sure of the truth of a maxim which seems paradoxical, namely, that he who is hasty falls back in the interests of God.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Fall, Steps

  Vincent De Paul (1990). “Correspondence Conference Documents”, New City Pr

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• It has always seemed somewhat paradoxical to me that we must constantly have the Lord command us to do those things which are for our own good.

  Marion G. Romney

  Lord, Command

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• It may sound paradoxical, but however tight our schedule, however many things clamor to be done, we don't need to hurry. If we can keep our mind calm and go about our business with undivided attention, we will not only accomplish more but we'll do a better job - and find ourselves more patient, more at peace.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Jobs, Mind, Sound

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• Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in order that the immanent and transcendent unknown quantity may take hold. We cannot make ourselves understand; the most we can do is to foster a state of mind in which understanding may come to us.

  Aldous Huxley

  Letting Go, Art, Order

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• As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical.

  Bill Gates

  Growth, Population, Healthcare

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• By natural means, as the Lord always operates for the accomplishment of his purposes, means so simple that the thoughtless and unbelieving do not see the manifestation of his power, he brought the Puritans from the old world to New England, the Dutch to New York, the English Cavaliers to Virginia and the French to New Orleans, a combination of races which, paradoxical as it may appear, was just calculated to give us the composite America who made the United States of America what it is, the greatest nation of the world today.

  Anthony W. Ivins

  New York, Mean, Simple

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• To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Two, Long, Innovation

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• Paradoxical as it may seem, men and women who are free to pursue individualism and material wealth turn out to be the most compassionate of all.

  Lawrence B. Lindsey

  Men, Compassion, May

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• Paradoxical as it may at first appear, the fact is that, as W. H. George has said, scientific research is an art, not a science.

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

  Art, Science, Research

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• I teach you both effort and effortlessness, because unless you attain to effortless-effort, unless you attain to active passivity, unless you attain to a singing-silence - they look paradoxical - unless you attain to an unmoving dance, you have not attained.

  Rajneesh

  Silence, Effort, Singing

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• By 'coming to terms with life' I mean: the reality of death has become a definite part of my life; my life has, so to speak, been extended by death, by my looking death in the eye and accepting it, by accepting destruction as part of life and no longer wasting my energies on fear of death or the refusal to acknowledge its inevitability. It sounds paradoxical: by excluding death from our life we cannot live a full life, and by admitting death into our life we enlarge and enrich it.

  Etty Hillesum

  Mean, Eye, Reality

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• One can never be too rich or too thin' is an aphorism attributed to the Duchess of Windsor. Being both rich and thin is a difficult enterprise, indeed almost unprecedented as an ideal. Into the paradoxical gap between the capacity to spend money and the need to eat less steps a brilliant solution: 'light' food. In buying 'light' food we can pay more for what costs less to produce in the first place.

  Margaret Visser

  Light, Needs, Cost

  Margaret Visser (2010). “Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea”, p.109, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.

  Daniel Pennac

  Lying, Reading, World

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• It is indeed paradoxical that an industry which epitomizes all that is new and up-to-date at the same time harbours some of the oldest and least desirable attributes of work in manufacturing industry.

  Peter Dicken

  Harbour, Attributes, Desirable

  Peter Dicken (1998). “Global Shift: Transforming the World Economy”, SAGE Publications Limited

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• My worryingly paradoxical thought process could be summarized thus: Thank God I don't believe in the secret rulers of the world. Imagine what the secret rulers of the world might do to me if I did!

  Jon Ronson

  Believe, Secret, Thank God

  Jon Ronson (2012). “Jon Ronson's Adventures With Extraordinary People”, p.120, Pan Macmillan

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• A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Truth, Race, Age

  Soren Kierkegaard (1966). “On Authority and Revelation”

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• There are living systems; there is no living "matter." No substance, no single molecule, extracted and isolated from a living being possess, of its own, the aforementioned paradoxical properties. They are present in living systems only; that is to say, nowhere below the level of the cell.

  Jacques Monod

  Life, Science, Cells

  Jacques Monod (1969). “From Biology to Ethics”

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• Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized by the mystics, but has become a problem in science only very recently.

  Fritjof Capra

  Science, Essentials, Problem

  "The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1975.

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• Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.

  Benjamin Peirce

  Truth, Mean, Science

  "Benjamin Peirce, 1809-1880 : Biographical Sketch and Bibliography". Book by R. C. Archibald, 1925.

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• We must remain, in a word, in an intellectual disposition which seems paradoxical, but which, in my opinion, represents the true mind of the investigator. We must have a robust faith and yet not believe.

  Claude Bernard

  Faith, Believe, Science

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