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Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

Teenager Control Interrupt Parent
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

You Think Your Will
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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes

ContainContradict Large Multitudes Myself
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There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Contradict One Thing Only Only One Thing
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Attained Contradictory Experience Find
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I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.

Bit Contradictory Found Human
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

Be True Consistent Contradict Honestly
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Almost Contradiction Courage Desire
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Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

Before Contradict Endeavor Fair
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The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

Contradictions God Life Me
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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.

Admission Compromise Compromised Contradictory
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I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

Begin Bore Bores Contradict
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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.

Afterlife Contradiction Here Hoped
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To me it seemed that the teaching of God's Word was unmistakably clear: 'Owe no man anything.' To borrow money implied to my mind a contradiction of Scripture--a confession that God had withheld some good thing, and determination to get for ourselves what He had not given.

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Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.
Nature Believe
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Accepting Beliefs Both Contradictory
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Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

World Fiction Made Contradiction
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Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

Contradictory Different Even Every
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“I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes.”

Claim Contradict Deprive Nonsense
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As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we're all one but continue to try to win.

Abandoned Become Begins Continue
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Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

Begin Both Contradiction Education
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It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

Contradict myself Improve wonderfully
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The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.

Financial markets Unpredictable Scenarios
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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

Absence Advise Another Any
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Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.

Contradictions Nothing Say Show
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I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

About Anything Anytime Away
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

Claim Condition Contradiction Full
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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Using power Compulsion World Cautious
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Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than fictions.

Some dreams Unnatural Contradictions Most romantic
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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Contraction Sign Falsity The lack
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I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both.

A feminist I believe Inhabiting contractions Productive
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The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

Freedom Affluence Opposes Life
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In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

Life Contradiction Birth Cause
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For me, love is the never-ending question. It is confusing. It is the answer, but it is also inundated with contradictions and complications.

Love Question Confusing Answer
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