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If you can write someone off as a bad person, then it's easier, but when someone is also great and noble and generous and kind and funny and contradictory, it gets harder.

~Boy George

Topics: Also Bad Contradictory Easier Funny Generous Gets Great Harder Kind Noble Off Person Someone Then Write You

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Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and cut taxes, for example. You must be honest about the numbers, since our annual deficit now exceeds all discretionary spending combined.

~Brian Baird

Topics: About Annual Balance Budget Combined Contradictory Cut Deficit Easy Example For Example Governing Honest Many Must Now Numbers Our Pledges Since Spending Taken Taxes Think You

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You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

~Bryant H. Mcgill

Topics: Contradictions Contradictory Find Full However Life Many May Philosophies Say Statements Will Within Writings You

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Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

~Carl Von Clausewitz

Topics: Contradictory Even False Intelligence Many More Most Reports Uncertain War

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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Child Contradictory Ecstasy Feelings Felt Heart Horror Life Small Small Child Two

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When I first entered the corporate world, doing good and making money were seen as separate and contradictory threads. Challenging that notion set my career - and life - on a new course.

~Dan Schulman

Topics: Career Challenging Contradictory Corporate Corporate World Course Doing Doing Good Entered First Good Life Making Making Money Money New Notion Seen Separate Set Threads Were World

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It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century.

~Daniel Libeskind

Topics: About Also Aspects Beautiful Beautiful City Bring Century Changed City Contradictory Creating How Memorial Seemingly Together Tragedy Vital Which World 21St Century

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Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

~David Antin

Topics: Businessman Contradictory Disney Fortune Idea Imaginary Inventing Made Out Real

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I like characters who are contradictory.

~David Bergen

Topics: Characters Contradictory Like Who

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We have contradictory expectations of police: We want to be perfectly safe and perfectly free. We want total security and total privacy. We want the bad guys stopped and the good guys unmolested. That's great for the consumer; try providing it.

~Don Winslow

Topics: Bad Bad Guys Consumer Contradictory Expectations Free Good Good Guys Great Guys Perfectly Police Privacy Providing Safe Security Stopped Total Try Want

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