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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
Sad
Character
Result
Mind
Radical
Chaos
Indefinite
Possible
Hash
Neither
Uncertain
Ideas
Most
Sort
Nor
Methods
Intellectual
Contradictory
American
Taste
Movement
Which
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
And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.
Adam Clarke
Man
Experience
Seen
Eye
Must
Spirit
He
Invisible
Principle
Nor
Contradictory
Any
Cannot
Reason
Hence
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
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
Time
Together
Intelligence
Smart
Living
Think
Way
Defined
Possibility
Having
Absolutely
Ideas
Opposite
Contradictory
Same
Same Time
Place
Script
Why
Things
Basically
Two
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
We've got a great team sport, but we harp on about individuals. It's a bit contradictory.
Alun Wyn Jones
Great
Harp
Bit
About
Individuals
Great Team
Sport
Got
Contradictory
Team
Team Sport
By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration but our reconsideration.
Amor Towles
Nature
Our
Consideration
Complex
Only
Very
Contradictory
Human
Human Beings
Capricious
Beings
Deserve
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
You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.
Bryant H. McGill
Life
You
Will
Philosophies
Statements
Say
Find
Writings
Within
However
Contradictions
Contradictory
May
Full
Many
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
To be a film-maker, you are almost forced to be surrounded by contradictions... You must have talents of so many different kinds - talents that are contradictory.
Francois Truffaut
You
Different Kinds
Must
Kinds
Almost
Talents
Forced
Surrounded
Contradictions
Contradictory
Different
Many
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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