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And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.

~Adam Clarke

Topics: Any Cannot Contradictory Experience Eye He Hence Invisible Man Must Nor Principle Reason Seen Spirit Thing

Keywords: Ability


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I don't think he has a real concept of reality. To stand by some of the things that Donald Trump has said and for Mike Pence to say he's a devout Christian man is completely contradictory.

~Adam Rippon

Topics: Christian Concept Contradictory Devout Donald Donald Trump He Man Mike Real Reality Said Say Some Stand Things Think Trump

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Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen.

~Aja Naomi King

Topics: Beings Contradict Contradictory Embrace Going Happen Human Human Beings Knowing Learning May Not Knowing Ourselves Say Something Sometimes Television

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I think intelligence basically can be in a way defined by the possibility of having two opposite ideas living together and at the same time functioning. That's why I think a smart script has two things living in the same place, and they're absolutely contradictory.

~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Topics: Absolutely Basically Contradictory Defined Having Ideas Intelligence Living Opposite Place Possibility Same Same Time Script Smart Things Think Time Together Two Way Why I Think

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The world asks us to be quickly readable, but the thing about human beings is that we are more than one thing. We are multiple selves. We are massively contradictory.

~Ali Smith

Topics: About Ask Beings Contradictory Human Human Beings Massively More Multiple One Thing Quickly Selves Than Thing Us World

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The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye and disappears in its own brightness. Like a flame, whose meaning is light but whose centre is dark, it demands to be undefined.

~Alice Oswald

Topics: Brightness Centre Contradictory Dark Demands Disappears Eye Flame Light Like Meaning More Own Quality Sea See Undefined Whose You

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By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration but our reconsideration.

~Amor Towles

Topics: Beings Complex Consideration Contradictory Deserve Human Human Beings Nature Only Our Very

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The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

~Andrew Carnegie

Topics: Admission Compromise Compromised Contradictory Defeat Men Morality Never Principles Said Should Sign Sounds Strong Strong Men Weakness

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I'm not questioning the monotheistic god. I think there's absolutely no evidence for the existence of such a god. When I say that, I mean I'm - part of that is that the idea that God could be all-powerful and also benevolent is on its face contradictory.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

Topics: Absolutely All-Powerful Also Benevolent Contradictory Could Evidence Existence Face God Idea Mean Part Questioning Say Think I Think

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It was about a football program that brought in massive amounts of money. They're going to try to cover something up, because it's about money at the end of the day. That's clear. There's no ambiguity to that. Paterno is much more complicated and contradictory, and that's why he's interesting to me.

~Barry Levinson

Topics: About Ambiguity Amount Because Brought Clear Complicated Contradictory Cover Day End End Of The Day Football Going He Interesting Massive Me Money More Much Program Something Try Up Why

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