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I do not think it would be appropriate to use official party resources such as the DNC website on behalf of organizations whose purpose is to reverse the current platform and/or to enact legislation that contradicts that platform. (Quote by - Terry McAuliffe)

The contradiction between demand and supply of military funds remains obvious. (Quote by - Yang Xuhua)

But the more I thought about the questions, the more contradictions I saw in the leaders' answers. It was a semantic song and dance. (Quote by - Daniel Roselle)

He has a woman dress up like a boy in order to make a deep connection with the object of her affection. In the disguise, she can really be herself. We put on a mask to be more ourselves; we hide to reveal. This is the great contradiction about the art of acting, in fact. (Quote by - Dean Gilmour)

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. (Quote by - Douglas Adams)

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)

Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory. (Quote by - Vernon Howard)

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. (Quote by - Bryant H. McGill)

After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

It's worth considering because there may be some unintended consequences of every municipality creating separate-type rules, .. You could have circumstances that contradict one another. (Quote by - Jeb Bush)

We have a real contradiction where students are saying, on the one hand, it's no big deal and didn't report it .. but on the other hand, they say, 'Yes, I was upset by it, yes, it made me feel bad about myself. (Quote by - Elena Silva)

How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light. (Quote by - Barry Lopez)

He's got to do better than the shoddy piecing together of flimsy evidence that contradicts the briefings we have received by various agencies, .. I'm not hearing the same things at the briefings that I'm hearing from the president's top officials. (Quote by - Russ Feingold)

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy. (Quote by - Freda Adler)

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself I am large, I contain multitudes. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions. (Quote by - Michelle Shocked)

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large. (Quote by - Charlie Chaplin)

I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very, very effective air power to bear in support of our troops. (Quote by - Ken Bacon)

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. (Quote by - Georges Bataille)

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. (Quote by - Marcel Duchamp)

Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis. (Quote by - William Empson)

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I looked someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted thier answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I as looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I could answer. It took me a while and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself!. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Art can contradict Science. (Quote by - Austin Osman Spare)

I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

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