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paradox
«It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.»
Author: Hugo Black
(Jurist, Lawyer, Politician)
| About:
Happiness,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
aiming, be full, lasting, paradox
«Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.»
«Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.»
Author: George F. Will
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
constitute, elite, fascinate, paradox, public good
«I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.»
Author: Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(Founder, Missionary)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
found, hurt, hurts, paradox
«Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement»
«The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.»
«Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
paradox, professor, take away, The Professor, The Thinker, thinker
«So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful for impotence.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
adamant, decided, drift, fluidity, impotence, irresolute, paradox, resolved, solid, undecided