Quotes with self-contradiction

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  • Bo Burnham Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It's like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Irving Layton Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
    Irving Layton
    Canadian poet (1912 - 2006)
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  • Ben Shapiro Conservatives are routinely pilloried on television. A&E likely greenlit 'Duck Dynasty' in the first place because executives believed Americans would laugh at the redneck antics of the self-described 'white trash' family.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Seneca Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Blaise Pascal Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Ayn Rand Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Caroline Knapp Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Augustus William Hare Courage, when it is not heroic self-sacrifice, is sometimes a modification and sometimes a result of faith.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Alice S. Rossi Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.
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  • Bobby Davro Despite my confidence and self-belief, I've always wrestled with feelings of insecurity. To be honest, I think most people in show business are insecure.
    Bobby Davro
    English actor and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Brian Tracy Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Abdul Kalam Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Cass Sunstein Donald Trump may not speak explicitly of 'who we are,' but with his promise to make America great again, he engages in his own kind of identity politics, signaling that the nation has lost its sense of self. That gets to people.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Donald Trump Don’t be afraid of being unique. It’s like being afraid of your best self.
    Think Like a Champion: An Informal Education In Business and Life (2010) 44
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Benjamin Stillingfleet Each moss, Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who fram'd This scale of beings; holds a rack which, lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue.
    Benjamin Stillingfleet
    British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Education must have two foundations - morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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