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All concord's born of contraries.

Ben Jonson

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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Blaise Pascal

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Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes).

Walt Whitman

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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

George Orwell

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Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

George Moore

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How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

George Bernard Shaw

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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

Georges Bataille

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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Thomas Hardy

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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be consistent.

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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Winston Churchill

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The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Oscar Wilde

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What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality -- soaring and groveling, dirt and deity -- all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron

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Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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All concord's born of contraries.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes).

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be consistent.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality -- soaring and groveling, dirt and deity -- all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.