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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. George Orwell

Mind Power Holding Both Simultaneously Accepting Contradictory Them Means Beliefs Two

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. Andrew Carnegie

Strong Men Defeat Sign Weakness Strong Men Admission Morality Compromise Compromised Never Principles Said Sounds Contradictory Should

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself. Robert De Niro

Life Nothing More Itself Contradictory Than Ironic

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. Saint Augustine

Thoughts Experience Vision Light Mind Out Find Attained Glance Thus Withdrew Itself Contradictory Flash Wherein Which Might Images

Humans have an amazing capacity to believe in contradictory things. For example, to believe in an omnipotent and benevolent God but somehow excuse Him from all the suffering in the world. Or our ability to believe from the standpoint of law that humans are equal and have free will and from biology that humans are just organic machines. Yuval Noah Harari

God Suffering World Law Amazing Will Free Example Free Will Organic Believe Biology Omnipotent Our Benevolent Machines Ability Somehow Excuse For Example Equal Him Contradictory Just Capacity Standpoint Things Humans

To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character. Emma Goldman

Tied up with his dismissal of natural law is Hayek's continuous, and all-pervasive, attack on reason. Reason is his bete noire, and time and time again, from numerous and even contradictory standpoints, he opposes it. Murray Rothbard

Time Natural Law Numerous Attack Hayek He Tied Time And Time His Continuous Up Contradictory Again Reason Even

It is clear to me that people often want incompatible things. They want danger and excitement on the one hand, and safety and security on the other, and often simultaneously. Contradictory desires mean that life can never be wholly satisfying or without frustration. Theodore Dalrymple

Life Me People Frustration Safety Other Danger Security Never Clear Excitement Simultaneously Without Hand Contradictory Often Want Mean Wholly Satisfying Incompatible Things Desires

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

I think intelligence basically can be in a way defined by the possibility of having two opposite ideas living together and at the same time functioning. That's why I think a smart script has two things living in the same place, and they're absolutely contradictory. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The world asks us to be quickly readable, but the thing about human beings is that we are more than one thing. We are multiple selves. We are massively contradictory. Ali Smith

World One Thing About More Massively Quickly Selves Contradictory Than Human Human Beings Ask Us Beings Multiple Thing

If you can write someone off as a bad person, then it's easier, but when someone is also great and noble and generous and kind and funny and contradictory, it gets harder. Boy George

Funny Great You Easier Kind Bad Someone Write Noble Generous Also Off Contradictory Person Gets Then Harder

Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and cut taxes, for example. You must be honest about the numbers, since our annual deficit now exceeds all discretionary spending combined. Brian Baird

You Balance Example Think Our Deficit Spending Pledges Must Easy About Taken Since Budget Combined For Example Annual Governing Discretionary Contradictory Taxes Cut Many Now Honest Numbers

It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century. Daniel Libeskind

Beautiful Together World Changed City Memorial Vital About Seemingly Beautiful City Also How Tragedy Contradictory Which Century Creating Aspects Bring

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real. David Antin

Made Out Inventing Idea Real Contradictory Disney Fortune Businessman Imaginary

I like characters who are contradictory. David Bergen

Characters Like Contradictory Who

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span. Doug Liman

Director Independent Am Contradictory Sensibility Span Hollywood Realize Filmmaker

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. Edward Norton

People Easily Characters All People Paradoxical Shades No-One Like Because Ambiguity Contradictory Impulses Hard Who Fun

I always have sort of been someone who has contradictory parts, and I haven't tried to uncomplicate myself. I've sort of let things seem contradictory, and sometimes it really confuses people. I don't know if it's working all the time, but I'd rather do that than try to sell myself as one thing or another. Emily Ratajkowski

Time Myself People Sometimes Try One Thing Tried Seem Someone Rather Know Sort Another Parts Always Been Sell Contradictory Than Confuses Really Working Who Thing Things

Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers. Gary Wolf

Other Must Rapport Able Seemingly Balancing Operator Hand Contradictory Precise Establish Being Means Skills

I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory. George Saunders

Life Creative Vision Thought Whatever Those Some Had He Combination Sincerely Particular Occupied His Cumulative Contradictory Person Artistic Just Might Really Creative Life Appear Even

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