Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.
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Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
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Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
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I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.
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Fast and Furious
Fast and furious,
Are the hypocrites jumping...
From one side of the fence to the other.
If not comfortably sitting on it,
To spew contradictory conflict...
Slipping from either side of their mouths.
People like this are only about division.
And those who slither behind them spineless.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.
quote by Timothy Radcliffe
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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.
quote by Adam Clarke
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It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored.
Terry Pratchett in Jingo
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Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
quote by George Orwell
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One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.
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Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.
Anne Rice in The Vampire Lestat
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To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.
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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.
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Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.
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