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Letter "C" » contradictions
«Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.»
Author: Andre Breton
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Critic,
Editor,
Founder,
Poet)
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Keywords:
communicable,
contradictions,
high and low,
imagined,
perceived,
tends,
tends to,
There exists
«Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life»
«God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow»
«Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together. If the city was unhappy with itself yesterday-and invariably it was-it will reinvent itself today.»
«Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together.»
«. . . life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.»
«Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.»
Author: Ayn Rand
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Novelist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
check,
checking,
check in,
Check it out,
check up on,
contradiction,
contradictions,
exist,
facing,
in check,
one of them,
premise,
premised,
premises
«Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?»
«Anger and hatred cannot bring harmony. The noble task of arms control and disarmament cannot be accomplished by confrontation and condemnation. Hostile attitudes only serve to heat up the situation, whereas a true sense of respect gradually cools down what otherwise could become explosive. We must recognize the frequent contradictions between short-term benefit and long-term harm.»
Author: Dalai Lama
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Keywords:
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arms,
arms control,
condemnation,
confrontation,
confrontations,
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cool down,
disarmament,
explosive,
explosives,
frequent,
frequented,
frequenting,
frequents,
gradually,
harm,
harmony,
heat,
heat up,
hostile,
noble,
otherwise,
recognize,
short-term,
situation,
term
«Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.»