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Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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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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You have to have tunnel vision as a dancer to get to where you're going. But once you get there, you have to save yourself by spreading your horizons. It's the paradox of this profession. The very thing that makes you very good will destroy you.
- Ann Reinking
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I wrote a film for Tom Hanks and I wrote two films for Paul Greengrass that didn't actually happen. The paradox is that the bigger the film you write, the less likely it is to happen.
- Ol Parker
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It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.
- Dan Colen
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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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We want a free market, but we know that the paradox of a 'free' market is that sometimes you have to intervene. You have to make sure it's not the law of the jungle but the laws of democracy that works.
- Margrethe Vestager
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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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For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but it's in a form that is so sensually gratifying that it connects the surviving heart to the despairing intellect.
- Tony Harrison
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'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.
- Garry Shandling
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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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The paradox of perfection is that you should try and achieve it by doing quality work even though you know you can never achieve it.
- Kay Kay Menon
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I think I am intrigued by paradoxes. If something seems to be a paradox, it has something deeper, something worth exploring.
- Roger Penrose
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The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.
- John Grierson
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But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me.
- Jean Reno
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
- Jack London
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It's an unbelievable, absurd paradox that we have to put one step in front of the other every day without knowing which one will be our last.
- Chloe Benjamin
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He was a great thundering paradox of a man.
- William Manchester
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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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Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.
- Jeremy Northam
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This is a paradox of man: compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God.
- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
- Os Guinness
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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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Mastering the paradox of star brands is very difficult and rare - fortunately.
- Bernard Arnault
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As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports.
- Henry Giroux
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Fighting in the name of god is the biggest paradox ever.
- Koena Mitra
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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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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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The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect.
- Peter A. Levine
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law.
- Elisha Gray
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In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.
- Denis Villeneuve
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You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
- Wayne Dyer
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The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.
- Shana Alexander
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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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Our astronauts, when they go orbiting around the earth, they actually come back slightly younger than a twin that they would have on the planet Earth who was stationary. This is called the twin paradox.
- Michio Kaku
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Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.
- John Fowles
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The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
- Earl Warren
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In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
- Norman O. Brown
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Nuclear weapons present us with a paradox: We spend billions of dollars building and maintaining them in the hope that we never have to use them.
- Dianne Feinstein
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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
- Niels Bohr
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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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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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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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In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
- Erich Fromm
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Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.
- Thomas Wolfe
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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
- John Ruskin
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The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
- James Baldwin
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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
- George Will
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
- Galileo Galilei
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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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I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
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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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