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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman
Myself
I Am
Contain
Well
Am
Very
Contradict
Then
Large
Multitudes
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.
Nathan Bedford Forrest
War
Me
Together
Black
Country
Sentiment
White
One Country
About
Color
Through
Wrong
Said
Been
Contradict
Flag
Stood
May
Differ
Which
Persons
Us
Stand
Who
Many
Let Us
Things
Here
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon
Take For Granted
Believe
Consider
Take
Weigh
Read
Nor
Contradict
Granted
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde
Wise
People
Other
Well
Contradict
Themselves
Bred
I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
Paul Auster
Think
Alive
Ourselves
Would
Would-Be
Boring
Contradict
Tedious
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.
Parker Palmer
Truth
Respect
People
Decision
Critical
Worthy
Demands
Inward
Make
Oppressed
Contradict
Begin
Stop
Movements
Keep
Deeply
Inner
External
Consenting
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.
Vladimir Kramnik
Beauty
Situation
Believe
Every
Rules
He
Mastering
Chess
Contradict
Expectations
Situations
Senses
Which
Succeeds
Creating
Player
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
William James
Other
Philosopher
Philosophers
One Thing
Only
Only One Thing
Contradict
Thing
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.
Aja Naomi King
Learning
Sometimes
Not Knowing
Say
Television
Ourselves
Embrace
Something
Knowing
Contradict
Contradictory
Going
May
Human
Human Beings
Happen
Beings
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.
An Wang
Mad
Must
Running
Madman
Also
Him
Another
Contradict
Cured
Us
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.
Andy Hurley
Time
Believe
Living
Corporation
Some
Weird
Employee
Make
Does
Am
Ultimately
Contradict
Same
Same Time
Things
China has proven that the wellbeing of citizens in a country doesn't necessarily contradict its engagement globally.
Arancha Gonzalez
Country
Citizens
Globally
Wellbeing
Proven
Contradict
China
Engagement
Necessarily
Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict that idea.
Brendon Urie
Music
Soul
Stealing
Idea
New
Looked
Were
Contradict
Bands
Then
Used
Who
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.
Carrie Coon
Time
Myself
Parents
Dancing
Claim
Thoughtful
Bossy
Observant
Idea
Loud
Contradict
Quiet
Child
Which
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.
Charles Lyell
Plead
Hesitation
Seems
General
Only
Previous
Investigations
Tenor
Discovery
Contradict
Reply
Which
Much
Naturally
Received
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.
Eugene Jarecki
Say
Favor
Immigrants
He
Himself
Reagan
Contradict
Stood
Against
Us
Should
Teaches
Illegal
Illegal Immigrants
Amnesty
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.
G. Willow Wilson
Love
You
Fight
People
Real Estate
Every
Other
Be Prepared
Ideas
Occupy
Real
Intellectual
Contradict
Square
Estate
Inch
Each
Prepared
Things
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.
John Hench
Hope
Good
Morning
You
Accidents
Nothing
Action
Live
Everything
Say
Bad
Cartoons
Had
Because
Continuously
Contradict
Trying
May
Just
Want
Happen
Movies
Action Movies
Live Action
Many
Works
Actor
Play
Things
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.
KRS-One
Time
Myself
People
Speak
Too Much
Gangsta
Too
Side
Say
People Say
Come
Because
Audiences
Contradict
Same
Same Time
Want
Either
Much
Teach
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.
Kris Kristofferson
Down
Think
Kids
Tell
Gee
Something
Could
Never
Like
Learned
Pass
Been
Itself
Contradict
Trying
Maybe
Anything
Whiz
Things
All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things.
Robert Creeley
Sense
OK
Proved
Contradict
Which
Then
Certainly
Things
Necessary
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.
Roisin Murphy
You
First
Clothes
Out
Kind
Wearing
Record
Seemed
Idea
Like
Reaction
Tight
Contradict
Artist
Being
Interesting
Sweater
Serious
Started
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.
Sherwin B. Nuland
Constitution
Culture
Ethics
Doctors
Nation
Our
Adhere
Must
Would
All-American
Morality
Putting
Forced
Contradict
American
Which
Aside
Body
Notion
Euthanasia
Even
Based
Medical
I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them.
Terry Gross
Needs
Me
You
Reality
Thought
Whatever
Everyone
Photograph
Visual
Visual Image
Risk
Disappointing
Know
Contradict
Listener
Listens
Them
Creates
Who
Radio
Image
Need
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.
Trip Lee
Saying
You
People
Song
Down
Collaborate
Way
Would
Would-Be
Able
Know
Were
Contradict
Same
Certain
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