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Power is paradoxical.
Truth sounds paradoxical!
Truth is always paradoxical.
The truest sayings are paradoxical.
The truth often sounds paradoxical.
Human experience is usually paradoxical.
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.
Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.
Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.
He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.
I have no faith in my faith. My faith is in the faithful God.
Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned
How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory.
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.
The words of truth are always paradoxical. To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
The imputation to Brodsky of Russian nationalist views is, of course, paradoxical and worth considering.
Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.
It seems a little paradoxical to construct a configuration space with the coordinates of points which do not exist.
America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.
The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.
It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.
God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?
As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.
It has always seemed somewhat paradoxical to me that we must constantly have the Lord command us to do those things which are for our own good.
I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse.
It's paradoxical that things that are hard for people are easy for the computer, and things that are hard for the computer, any child can understand.
The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.
There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that market.
It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing. That's a kind of paradoxical thing about improvising.
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
I have serious concerns about the potential risks of taking lots of fish oil capsules. So much fish oil can have paradoxical effects, reducing immune function in later life.
All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.
It seems paradoxical that, as medical scientists make huge advances in discovering the mechanisms of common diseases, fewer and fewer innovative drugs are reaching the market.
I was graduated in 1940 with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Social Science but a major in Mathematics, a paradoxical combination that was prognostic of my future interests.
And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.
Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.
The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
It is indeed paradoxical that an industry which epitomizes all that is new and up-to-date at the same time harbours some of the oldest and least desirable attributes of work in manufacturing industry.
One thing that everybody told me about directing was, 'Never compromise'. And the whole job is a compromise. So it's very paradoxical. How do you not compromise when the whole thing is about compromise?
Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object, which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured... anxiety has no object, or rather, in a paradoxical phrase, its object is the negation of every object.
I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
It's a really paradoxical thing. We want to think big, but start small. And then scale fast. People think about trying to build the next Facebook as trying to start where Facebook is today, as a major global presence.