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I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.
I am an honest person, and that is why I can admit historical facts and I will never try to contradict them.
A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.
All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.
China has proven that the wellbeing of citizens in a country doesn't necessarily contradict its engagement globally.
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
We are not against religions. This country is the cradle of prophecy and the true message and we will not contradict this.
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.
Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict that idea.
You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
I would be down to collaborate with certain people if we were able to do it in a way that, you know, what we're saying in the same song wouldn't contradict.
In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation.
If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
Ultimately, I am an employee of a corporation, and that's weird and does contradict some of the things I believe in. But at the same time, I have to make a living.
People say I contradict myself because I come gangsta and teach at the same time. I don't want to be too much on either side, but I do want to speak to all audiences.
To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood for - that he was in favor of amnesty.
I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy and dancing all the time.
Racism and bigotry should never fuel any administration's policies. Calls to send anyone 'back' contradict who we should be as a country and the ideals for which we stand.
I've been trying to think of things to tell my kids, something that I could pass down, and it's like, gee whiz, I maybe never learned anything that didn't contradict itself.
I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.
Any book on empire will omit, by necessity, vast tracts of the imperial experience, and so critics can easily find facts and details to contradict an author's bold generalisations.
As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.
In pursuit of their commercial ambitions, Huawei relied on dishonest business practices that contradict the economic principles that have allowed American companies and the United States to thrive.
When I started out, the idea of wearing interesting clothes seemed to contradict the idea of being a serious artist. The first Moloko record, 'Do You Like My Tight Sweater?' was kind of a reaction to all that.
Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.
I won't think about what people will say, even when I am actually seeing someone. Somebody will say something, then someone else will contradict it. I can't keep chasing all of them and try and correct everyone.
Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen.
I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you get a brain of a certain character you get consciousness going along with it.
Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nation's culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the long-held body of medical ethics to which all American doctors must adhere.
When you build your network, keep yourself open to new ideas, concepts, and theories. Some of them may even contradict and challenge long-held points of view. This isn't beneficial only to someone in my profession, but to every line of work.
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.
We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.
Attempts to settle crises by unilateral sanctions outside the framework of U.N. Security Council decisions threaten international peace and stability. Such attempts are counterproductive and contradict the norms and principles of international law.
I know that some consider it controversial for me to claim that God saved my life when I had received an experimental drug and some of the greatest medical care available in the world. I can see how these two realities appear to contradict each other.
In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.
If you read the whole Vertigo 'Animal Man' series of 89 issues or whatever, each writer has a completely different take on his origin. If you try to put them all together, they contradict one another. I had to pick and choose to make up a new origin that makes sense to new readers.