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That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.

~David Hume

Topics: Affirmation Contradiction Implies Intelligible Less More Proposition Rise Sun Than Tomorrow Will

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So many of the things I talk about in 'Reality Hunger' seem to be the things that 'The Thing About Life' does - things like risk, contradiction, compression, mixing modes of attack from the memoristic gesture to data-crunching.

~David Shields

Topics: About Attack Contradiction Does Gesture Hunger Life Like Many Mixing Modes Reality Risk Seem Talk Thing Things

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You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox.

~Deepak Chopra

Topics: Adventure Archetypal Brand Compelling Conflicts Content Contradiction Emotional Great Great Story Intrigue Kind Know Magic Mystery Myth Paradox Story Teachings Themes Think You Your

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In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.

~Denis Villeneuve

Topics: Contradiction Find Paradox Truth You

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What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem.

~Donald Sutherland

Topics: Anything Built Contradiction Criticized Discuss Discussion Find Get Growth Hate Moment Nation Out People Problem Solve Start Try Us Why You

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There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions.

~Dorothy Height

Topics: Away Between Civil Civil Rights Contradiction Did Dr Dr. King Effective Enforcement Fashions Human Human Rights Kinds King Law Law Enforcement Move Our Respect Rights Stir Taken Them Us

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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

Topics: Afterlife Contradiction He Here Hoped Involved Merely Prayed Realized Then

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I was Irish; I was a woman. Yet night after night, bent over the table, I wrote in forms explored and sealed by English men hundreds of years before. I saw no contradiction.

~Eavan Boland

Topics: After Before Bent Contradiction English Explored Forms Hundreds Hundreds Of Years Irish Men Night Over Saw Sealed Table Woman Wrote Years

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The business aspect of this sport is a contradiction to what it's really about, and that's knowing something for what it is and not just what it looks like.

~Eddie Alvarez

Topics: About Aspect Business Contradiction Just Knowing Like Looks Really Something Sport

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I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

~Elia Kazan

Topics: Contradiction Did Fear Self-Doubt Simply Spoke Suffer Without

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