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George Santayana
: Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
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It comforts me to think that if we are created beings, the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality, and so it would seem to us, look out from within our reality, that is would contradict reason. But reason itself would suggest it would have to be greater that reality, or it would not be reasonable.
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The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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Do I contradict myself Very well then I contradict myself,
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Julius Henry Marx :
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Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
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Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes).
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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
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I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
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The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
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Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
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A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
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To be interested in the changing seasons is, in this middling zone, a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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