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«By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.»
Author: Edwin Markham
(Poet)
| Keywords:
ascend, fellows, levels, paradox, reciprocities, reciprocity
«It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.»
Author: Herbert Hoover
(President)
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Dictators,
Paradox,
Power,
Speech
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attaining, climbed, dictator, free speech, ladder, paradox, suppressed
«In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.»
Author: Norman O. Brown
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equation, excrement, paradox, psychoanalysis, the Poets, worthlessness
«How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.»
«In love, the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Love
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beings, occurs, paradox, remain
«By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
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Principles
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denying, paradox
«A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.»
Author: Marlene Dietrich
(Actress)
| About:
Competence,
Family
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abdicate, abdicated, abdicates, delegate, delegated, delegates, delegating, dilemma, dilemmas, duties, incompetence, paradox, realizing, sons
«For thence - a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale»
«... the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools know it.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
arm, bent, controversy, equalize, equalized, equalizes, equalizing, height, hold water, hydrostatic, one-armed, paradox, pipe, The Tube, tube, tubes, Wise Men
«It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.»
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