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Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.
Joan Jett
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Guitarist
Fragile
Life Is
Paradox
Physics
Quantum
Quantum Physics
Strong
Together
Wave
Life Time Together
Things
Like
Both
Same
Exists
Particle
Same Time
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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
T. S. Eliot
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Playwright
Absolutes
Mean
Paradox
Relative
Absolute
Beyond
Itself
Escapes
Goes
Somehow
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Paradox is thus a much deeper and universal concept than the ancients would have dreamed. Rather than an oddity, it is a mainstay of the philosophy of science.
William Poundstone
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Author
Oddities
Paradox
Philosophy
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The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.
Ralph Peters
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Author
Relationship
Age
Technology
Century
Human Soul
Paradox
Powerful
Soul
Face
Biggest
Human
Internationally
Problems
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The paradox is that Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and all the tech giants are bigger fans of music than some of the executives working at major record companies.
Jean Michel Jarre
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Composer
Bigger
Executives
Giants
Paradox
Record Companies
Companies
Major
Mark Zuckerberg
Tech
Steve
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By our very nature, we are a human paradox. We are a human being. The being is infinite and the human is very finite. We walk around like lightening in a bottle.
Mark Nepo
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Poet
Bottles
Infinite
Paradox
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Western people ask me whether it is a paradox that I am King but support democracy. I have to tell them that in Thailand, the King is the guarantor of democracy.
Bhumibol Adulyadej
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King Of Thailand
Democracy
Paradox
Support
Thailand
Western
Ask
King Me I Am
Tell
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All this talk about writing is a little bit moot, because it is almost an unthinking process. It is actually a paradox because you are constantly making choices.
Julia Leigh
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Novelist
Choices
Paradox
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Even in pure mathematics they can't remove all paradox, and the rest of us should also recognize we are going to have to endure a lot of paradox, like it or not.
Charlie Munger
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Business Person
Mathematics
Paradox
Should
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My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.
Paulo Coelho
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Lyricist
Literature
Logic
My Soul
Paradox
Police
Soul
Tension
Typical
Exists
Implacable
Novels
Result
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That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.
Kathy Mattea
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Musical Artist
Earth
Great Joy
Joy
Midst
Numb
Pain
Paradox
Just Be
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In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science or religion, is dangerous.
Robert Winston
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Professor
Certainty
Paradox
Uncertainty
Expressions
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The government can build institutional infrastructure to address the paradox of floods and calamities in some parts of the country, and water scarcity in other parts.
Ram Nath Kovind
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Infrastructure
Paradox
Scarcity
Address
Calamities
Floods
Institutional
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Football is a sport of paradox. It requires reaction, not reflection. Yet you must use your mind to calculate, to anticipate - to think and not think at the same time.
Dhani Jones
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Football Player
Sports
Anticipate
Football
Paradox
Reflection
Thinking
Calculate
Reaction
Requires
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Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been the basis for the most impassioned love.
Thomas M. Disch
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Author
Daisies
Flower
Paradox
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Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.
Herman Kahn
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Strategist
Decision Making
Inadequate
Mistake
Paradox
Perspective
Simple
Utility
Caused
Mistakes
Aspects
Due
Result
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Periods of change are full of paradoxes. They're difficult but exciting, frightening but freeing. Letting go of old patterns that no longer work for us is exhilarating.
Sue Thoele
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Author
Letting Go
Paradox
Patterns
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I like the idea of paradox, between the authentic fabrics and sophisticated shapes and between masculine and feminine. I'm not so much for sportswear. I think it's over.
Hedi Slimane
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Fashion Designer
Feminine
Ideas
Masculine
Masculine And Feminine
Paradox
Shapes
Sophisticated
Thinking
Authentic
Fabrics
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It's okay to be two things at once and a paradox. Everybody is. As humans for survival we like to label things in a split second. It is how we don't implode from anxiety.
Kathryn Hahn
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Actress
Anxiety
Paradox
Survival
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Ah yes, the paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.
Emma Donoghue
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Playwright
Innocence
Paradox
Publicity
Reader
Ah
Ideal
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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Paul Valery
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Poet
Science
Truth
Discovery
Folly
Honesty
Metaphor
Oneself
Paradox
Proof
Spring
Capital
Oracle
Torrent
Truths
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Americans are pragmatic; we want quick, clean, simple solutions to vast problems. The paradox is that we're a deeply confessional culture, but we're not often contemplative.
David Means
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Contemplative
Paradox
Pragmatic
Solutions
Vast
Quick
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Self control is about being in charge of the direction our lives are taking. Now for the paradox: We get control of our lives, ultimately, not by will power but by surrender.
Lewis B. Smedes
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Author
Paradox
Self
Surrender
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There's a paradox with self-improvement, and it is this: the ultimate goal of all self-improvement is to reach the point where you no longer feel the need to improve yourself.
Mark Manson
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Paradox
Self Improvement
Ultimate
Ultimate Goal
Reach
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A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
Marlene Dietrich
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Actress
Kings
Dad
Dilemma
Fathers Day
Incompetence
Paradox
Realizing
Abdicate
Understand
Delegate
Duties
Either
Neither
Sons
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The river of time may fork into rivers, in which case you have a parallel reality and so then you can become a time traveler and not have to worry about causing a time paradox.
Michio Kaku
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Physicist
Paradox
Reality
Rivers
Traveler
Worry
Case
Causing
Fork
River
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Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the paradox of letting go. Let go, in order to achieve. Letting go is God's law.
Mary Manin Morrissey
/
Achieve
Letting Go
Paradox
Love God Work
Let Go
Struggled
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Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Author
Hollywood
Individuality
Paradox
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That's the paradox. Since we can spend as long as we want, we worked so much faster than we used to. I think that when you don't have the pressure anymore, the ideas come faster.
Nicolas Godin
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Long
Paradox
Thinking
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It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
Herbert Hoover
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31St U.s. President
Freedom
Democracy
Dictator
Free Speech
Ladders
Paradox
Speech
Free
Attaining
Own
Every
Climbed
Each
Except
His
Immediately
Ladder
Suppressed
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I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.
Barry Schwartz
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Business World
Paradox
Gratified
Surprised
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Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.** (emphasis by author) [2002] p.25f
Gary Hamel
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Manager
Becoming
Paradox
Resilience
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The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The new knowledge was all fact and reason, and it made no sense.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Author
Facts
Paradox
Reason
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There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.
Lukas Foss
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Composer
Falling In Love
Identity
Interesting
Paradox
Falling
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This is the paradox of thrift: belt-tightening causes people to lose their jobs, because other people are not buying what they produce, so their debt burden rises rather than falls.
Robert J. Shiller
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Economist
Burden
Buying
Causes
Paradox
Thrift
Rises
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I consider myself pretty lazy, but I look back and check out the stuff I've done, and I say, 'God, that's a lot of stuff for a lazy guy.' It's a paradox, I suppose, being both things.
Jeff Bridges
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Actor
Guy
Lazy
Looks
Paradox
God Myself Look
Check
Suppose
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There is a paradox in politics that what it takes to get elected is not necessarily what it takes to govern, and my feeling is that trying to control things too much feels icky to me.
Bennett Miller
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Paradox
Govern
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I don't believe in objectivity. I observe the observer's paradox every moment I'm filming. Your presence is changing everything; there's no mistaking it. And you have a responsibility.
Lucy Walker
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Film Producer
Believe
Objectivity
Paradox
Responsibility
Filming
Observe
Presence
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The main advantage of blockchain technology is supposed to be that it's more secure, but new technologies are generally hard for people to trust, and this paradox can't really be avoided.
Vitalik Buterin
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Trust
Technology
Advantage
Avoided
Hard
Paradox
Secure
Technology People New
Blockchain
Generally
Main
New Technologies
Supposed
Technologies
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
Felix Dennis
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Poet
Sympathy
Generous
Paradox
Rich
Wealth
World
Celebrity
Darker
Narrower
Newly
Nonetheless
Scant
Sudden
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This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education.
Bill Owens
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Colorado
Degrees
Higher
Higher Education
Lag
Paradox
Per
Percentage
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An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.
George A. Moore
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Novelist
Over It
Paradox
Worried
Gain
Truth Time Good
Good Deal
Qualities
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The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?
George Stephanopoulos
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White House Communications Director
Clinton
Compassionate
Conscious
Intelligent
Paradox
President
Self Destructive
Selfish
Stupid
Act
Manner
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
Vincent Cassel
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Actor
Appearance
Built
Human Beings
Nice
Nice People
Paradox
Polite
Smooth
People Way Everything
Be Nice
Beings
Contradictions
Pretend
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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
Hugo Black
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Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Lasting
Paradox
Pleasure
Purpose
Condition
Aiming
Life Happiness Purpose
Miss
Seek
Outside
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The paradox is that money never meant anything to me. And it still doesn't, except now as an occasion for regret in that there are things that I want to make sure my family is protected when I pass.
David Milch
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Producer
Paradox
Protected
Regret
Family Money Me
Meant
Except
Occasion
Pass
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It's a paradox to be an actress, living in the city, taking planes all the time, trying to find the right balance in this life, which is not so eco-friendly, and still try to respect the environment.
Marion Cotillard
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Actress
Balance
Environment
Paradox
Planes
Life Time Respect
Actress
Right Balance
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I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court jester and a clown and make people laugh and make them feel good about themselves.
Richard Simmons
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Television Actor
Clown
Court
Feel Good
Paradox
People
Real
Serious Person
Work Good People
Work Good Feel Good
Wrap
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Ever since I was a little kid, there was something about change that scared me so much, but, at the same time, I've always been terrified of being stuck, so it's kind of like a paradox that I'm living.
Mo
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Little Kid
Paradox
Terrified
Change Time Me
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The Christian experiences and lives a paradox. He possesses joy in sorrow, fulfillment in exile, light in darkness, peace in turmoil, consolation in dryness, contentment in pain and hope in desolation.
Mother Angelica
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Nun
Christian
Consolation
Darkness
Desolation
Exile
Fulfillment
Joy
Pain
Paradox
Sorrow
Turmoil
Experiences
Possesses
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