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  • 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.

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  • George Eliot But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Benjamin Peirce Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.
    Benjamin Peirce
     
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  • Thomas Taylor I am pretty sure that we err in treating these sayings as paradoxes. It would be nearer the truth to say that it is life itself which is paradoxical and that the sayings of Jesus are simply a recognition of that fact.
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  • Boris Sidis If ceaseless vigilance is the price of liberty, more so is it true that ceaseless criticism of ever new opinions and ever new views, however distasteful, bizarre, and paradoxical, is the price of truth.
    The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Arnold Toynbee 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.
    Arnold Toynbee
    British economic historian and social reformer (1852 - 1883)
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  • Andy Rooney 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.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Beau Willimon Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Erich Fromm The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Bertrand Russell 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.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Benjamin Graham 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.
    Storage and Stability Part IV, Ch. XIV, Farm Problems and Remedies, p. 1
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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