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• It is one of the ironies of religious history that many mortals err in their understanding of the nature of God and end up rejecting not the real God but their own erroneous and stereotypical image of God. Frequently this is because they have thought of God solely in terms of thunderings at Sinai without pondering substance. . . .

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Religious, Real, Understanding

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• It is one of the great ironies of human history that some mortals with incorrect understanding of God and life's purposes sometimes scold God because of the abundance of human misery and suffering-which, indeed, lies all about us. Such individuals almost dare God to demonstrate His existence by straightening things out-and at once! But He is a much different kind of Father than that. Surely it is requisite to eternal life that we come to know God and Jesus Christ whom He has sent (see John 17:3).

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Father, Lying

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• Irony deals with opposites; it has nothing to do with coincidence.

  George Carlin

  Opposites, Coincidence, Deals

  George Carlin (1998). "Brain Droppings", Hyperion

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• Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it.

  Henry Rollins

  Play, White, Hair

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• El Principio de Tolerancia, fijó de una vez por todas la comprensión de que todo conocimiento es limitado. Es una ironía de la historia que en el mismo momento en que esto se estaba elaborando, surgiera, bajo Hitler en Alemania y otros tiranos en otros lugares, una contra-concepción: un principio de monstruosa certeza. Cuando el futuro recuerde los años treinta, pensará en ellos como una confrontación crucial de la cultura tal y como la he venido exponiendo: el ascenso del hombre contra el retroceso a la creencia de los déspotas de que tienen una certeza absoluta.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Fe, Hombres, Pensamiento

  "The Ascent of Man" (Episodio 11: "Knowledge or Certainty"), 1973.

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• And with alphabetical irony Nigeria follows New Zealand

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Athletics

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• Hay dos cualidades que hacen la ficción. Una es el sentido del misterio y la otra es el sentido de los modales. Los modales se obtienen de la textura de la existencia que te rodea. La gran ventaja de ser un escritor sureño es que no tenemos que ir a ninguna parte para buscar modales; malos o buenos, los tenemos en abundancia. En el Sur vivimos en una sociedad rica en contradicciones, rica en ironía, rica en contrastes, y particularmente rica en su habla

  Flannery O'Connor

  Two, Southern, Quality

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• The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the system of boondoggling, luxury-consumption, and status.

  Paul Goodman

  Luxury, Asceticism, Ethics

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.131, New York Review of Books

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• Lo irónico es que ir a trabajar todos los días se convirtió probablemente en el tema de mi mejor poesía.

  Philip Levine

  Best Poetry, Going To Work, Subjects

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• Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Writing, Advice, Ironic

  "Unkempt Thoughts". Book by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1962.

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• Los grandes aumentos del coste con incrementos cuestionables del rendimiento sólo pueden tolerarse en los caballos de carreras y las mujeres de lujo.

  Lord Kelvin

  Caballo, Carrera, Irónico

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• Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.

  John Gunther

  Ironic, Superstitions, Facts

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• The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.

  Carl L. Becker

  Men, Ironic, Belief

  Progress and Power Lecture 3 (1935)

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• Steiner ha transformado aquí las vaporosas concepciones de su vida, los vapores de lo que nunca fue y nunca será, de su estado aeriforme a una fina y etérea sustancialidad. Mis libros no escritos es una reunión de matices, una elegante y elocuente reunión de mente, sentimiento y pasión otoñal. (...) Y esa es la encantadora ironía de este pequeño libro único. Ninguno de estos libros no escritos debería haber sido escrito. Están mejor aquí, tal y como están, fantasmas indómitos y errantes de una brillantez cuyas emanaciones ninguna vida mortal podría albergar en su totalidad.

  Nick Tosches

  Libro, Pasión, Único

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• There's a certain amount of what I wear that I wear for irony.

  Lily Allen

  Certain, Amount

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• Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.

  James Thurber

  Humor, Sarcasm, Doe

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• El mejor antídoto contra la delincuencia es la justicia. La ironía que a menudo no apreciamos es que cuanta más justicia disfrutan las personas, menos delitos cometen. La delincuencia es el vástago natural de una sociedad injusta.

  Gerry Spence

  Unjust Society, People, Appreciate

  Gerry Spence (1989). "With justice for none: destroying an American myth", Crown

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• Billy was fascinated by the television. At its most basic level, it occupied his time and shut out the demons of isolation. This was another irony because, for so long, he had shunned the tube for a similar purpose-to prevent it from bombarding his brain with demons of banality. However, each time he turned the machine on, he began to discover a world of assorted delights, as well as gain insight into the insidious manner in which this medium was shaping the mass psyche. If nothing else, he learned there was nothing innocuous about it.

  Jim Carroll

  Long, Brain, Purpose

  Jim Carroll (2010). “The Petting Zoo: A Novel”, p.176, Penguin

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• A good friend, who knows whereof he speaks, has observed of trials, ‘If it’s fair, it is not a true trial!’ That is, without the added presence of some inexplicableness and some irony and injustice, the experience may not stretch us or lift us sufficiently. The crucifixion of Christ was clearly the greatest injustice in human history, but the Savior bore up under it with majesty and indescribable valor.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Adversity, Good Friend, Crucifixion Of Christ

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• La ironía es que buscamos agua y nos cuidamos del agua. Sin ella mueres, y con demasiada mueres.

  Cody Lundin

  Water, Survival, Too Much

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• I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.

  Robert Stone

  Trying, Way, Novelists

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The truth is you really are nothing, but this nothing is full, whole, infinite in everything and everywhere. This nothing is conciousness itself. It is already whole, complete and fulfilled. This is the amazing irony.

  Gangaji

  Infinite, Awareness, Truth Is

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• I went to university for a couple of years and I didn't enjoy university. The studying and the accountancy, economics, I just hated that stuff. Now the irony is here I am lawyer, accountant, I do it all day every day and sit at a desk. So I've never ended up where I wanted to be in many ways. I always wanted to be a farmer.

  Gerry Harvey

  Couple, Years, Here I Am

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• It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly offend, that words once meant to help draw people to the gospel now repel them.

  Rachel Held Evans

  People, Purpose, Agonizing

  Rachel Held Evans (2012). “A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband "master"”, p.263, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Llevo una vida muy normal. Las raras ceremonias de entrega de premios a las que asisto son bastante divertidas, porque puedo disfrutar de la ironía de un minuto caminando hacia el metro y al siguiente siendo conducido por el mismo tramo de carretera en una limusina.

  Jonathan Pryce

  Diversión, Premios, Ordinario

  Biografía/Citas personales, www.imdb.com.

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