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• There are lots of cases where we know more about how the world works than we do about how we know how it works. That's no paradox. Understanding the structure of galaxies is one thing, understanding how we understand the structure of galaxies is quite another. There isn't the slightest reason why the first should wait on the second and, in point of historical fact, it didn't. This bears a lot of emphasis; it turns up in philosophy practically everywhere you look.

  Jerry Fodor

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Waiting

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• I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility....And the paradox of it all has been that whenever I give up I seem to do better.

  Rick Moody

  Spiritual, Giving Up, Believe

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• La paradoja oblicua de la propaganda es que la mentira en la garganta se convierte, por repetición, en la verdad en el corazón.

  John Grierson

  Lying, Heart, Propaganda

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• One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.

  David Foster Wallace

  Book, Writing, Good Enough

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• It is a certainty that Keegan would not have agreed to return unless Mike Ashley had committed to sanctioning a mammoth spending spree. The downside, which Keegan will soon discover, is the law of diminishing returns in a league that is now the richest in the world. The type of multi-million-pound investment that bankrolled the first Newcastle revival under Keegan is now two-a-penny. Buying success just isn't as easy as it used to be. The Premiership's paradox is that the more money there is, the more the art of management gains in value.

  Pete Gill

  Soccer, Football, Art

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• A través de la danza, las personas se encuentran con los demonios, evitan la muerte, se sacuden el pecado y el mal, afrontan las crisis de la vida, median en las paradojas, resuelven conflictos, revitalizan el pasado para recrear el presente, mejoran su autoconcepto y su imagen corporal, atraen la atención, se reafirman, se enfrentan a los fuertes y persuaden a los demás para que cambien de actitud.

  Judith Lynne Hanna

  Fuerte, Pasado, Yo

  Judith Lynne Hanna (2006). "Bailar por la salud: Conquering and Preventing Stress", p.217, Rowman Altamira

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• It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.

  Brad Henry

  Democracy, Election, Wonderful

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• Es una paradoja interesante en la que pensar. Hazlo legal y no es bueno. ¿Por qué? Porque mientras sea ilegal, la gente que llega no tiene derecho a la asistencia social, no tiene derecho a la seguridad social, no tiene derecho a la miríada de prestaciones que repartimos de nuestro bolsillo izquierdo a nuestro bolsillo derecho. Mientras no cumplan los requisitos, migran a los trabajos. Aceptan trabajos que la mayoría de los residentes de este país no están dispuestos a aceptar. Proporcionan a los empresarios el tipo de trabajadores que no pueden conseguir. Son trabajadores duros, son buenos trabajadores y están claramente en mejor situación.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Jobs, Hard Work

  "Illegal Immigration: A Feature, Not A Bug, Said Milton Friedman" by Brian Doherty, reason.com. May 11, 2011.

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• Affirmations are like screaming that you're okay in order to overcome this whisper that you're not. That's a big contrast to actually uncovering the whisper, realizing that it's a passing memory, and moving closer to all those fears and all those edgy feelings that maybe you're not okay. Well, no big deal. None of us is okay and all of us are fine. It's not just one way. We are walking, talking paradoxes.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Memories, Moving

  "Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living". Book by Pema Chodron, 1994.

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• There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at a loss whether to treat it with gravity or with raillery; whether to consider it as a mere trial of skill, like the paradoxes of rhetoricians; as a disingenuous artifice to instil prejudices at any price; or as the serious.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Loss, Skills, Ideas

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2014). “The Federalist Papers”, p.135, Courier Corporation

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• The most fundamental paradox is that if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use it successfully. We Americans don't want war and we don't start fights. We don't maintain a strong military force to conquer or coerce others. The purpose of our military is simple and straightforward: we want to prevent war.

  Ronald Reagan

  Fuerte, Militar, Guerra

  "The uncommon wisdom of Ronald Reagan: a portrait in his own words".

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• It is a paradox to say the human body has no 'limit.' There must be a limit to the speed at which men can run. I feel this may be around 3:30 for the mile. However, another paradox remains - if an athlete manages to run 3:30, another runner could be found to marginally improve on that time.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Athlete, Men

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• Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.

  Carl Sandburg

  Paz, Corazón, Hombres

  CARL SANDBURG (1954). “ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE PRAIRIE YEARS AND THE WAR YEARS”

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• Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn't exist, all at the same time.

  Robin Wasserman

  Memories, Data, Imagination

  Robin Wasserman (2011). “Shattered”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to build a kind of personal storehouse of knowledge. The underside is that those insights harden and fill the spaces in our hearts and minds. They become assumptions, conclusions and judgments.

  Mark Nepo

  Heart, Space, Mind

  Mark Nepo (2013). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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• I was paralyzed with fear. It was unbearable to be among other kids who were just standing around being fine. It was one of the many inconveniences of this paradox I lived with -the more people I was surrounded by, the more frighteningly alone I felt.

  Sarah Silverman

  Kids, People, Unbearable

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• La encuentro analítica, pretenciosa y superficial, en gran medida porque no se ocupa de los sueños, el azar, la risa, los sentimientos o la paradoja, es decir, de todas las cosas que más me gustan.

  Luis Buñuel

  Sueño, Risa, Ciencia

  Luis Buñuel (2011). "Mi último suspiro", p.158, Random House

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• It is surely one of the curious paradoxes of history that science which professionally has little to do with faith, owes its origins to an act of faith that the universe can be rationally interpreted, and that science today is sustained by that assumption.

  Loren Eiseley

  Littles, Today, Assumption

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• The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do not see any paradox in it. Consider the case of the worshipper. He approaches God and prays to be absorbed in Him. He then surrenders himself in faith and by concentration. And what remains afterwards? In the place of the original 'I', self-surrender leaves a residuum of God in which the 'I' is lost. That is the highest form of devotion or surrender and the peak of detachment.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Realization, Quiet

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• You know, some people say that Cannes is the worst place in the world to see cinema. It's a paradox. They have the new films , lots of interesting films premiering there for the first time. At the same time it's such a mess and a confusion. You have to run from one screening to another.

  Miguel Gomes

  Running, Confusion, People

  Fuente: www.takeonecff.com

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• One of the striking things about doing research on Malcolm X, and I believe that most Malcolm X researchers could tell you their own stories, is that there's this paradox of the absence of critical information.

  Manning Marable

  Believe, Stories, Research

  Fuente: historynewsnetwork.org

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• Kant is not saying - about freedom or any other subject - anything of the form: "Not-p but we must assume that p." That's close to self-contradictory, like Moore's paradox: "p, but I don't believe that p".

  Allen W. Wood

  Believe, Self, Assuming

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It's the "Success Paradox." When a set of behaviors has gotten you somewhere, you keep doing them even though the circumstances have changed.

  Lewis Schiff

  Behavior, Circumstances, Changed

  Fuente: bobmorris.biz

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• In a state like Pennsylvania, the paradox is, to win, you have to get the conservative Democrats in the west, but you still have to do well with the collar-county moderates in the east. [Mitt] Romney did fine with the moderates, but not the conservative Democrats. Trump is doing well with the conservative Democrats. Now Trump has to seal the deal with the moderates in the east.

  John Brabender

  Winning, Pennsylvania, East

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• One of the paradoxes of liberal societies arises from the commitment to tolerance. A society committed to respecting the viewpoints and customs of diverse people within a pluralistic society inevitably encounters this challenge: will you tolerate those who themselves do not agree to respect the viewpoints or customs of others? Paradoxically, the liberal commitment to tolerance requires, at some point, intolerance for those who would reject that very commitment.

  Martha Minow

  Commitment, People, Challenges

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