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• And there is also the paradox that the dominating culture imbues the Indian past with great meaning and significance; it is valued more because it is seen as part of the past. And it is the romantic past, not the present, that holds meaning and spiritual significance for so many members of the dominating culture. It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land, respects these very things about Indian traditions, without adopting those respected ways themselves.

  Linda Hogan

  Spiritual, Past, Attachment

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• And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love, you deceived your legal wife, and all in the name of honour. That was the damned paradox of it - in order to behave well, you have to behave badly.

  Julian Barnes

  Love You, Order, Names

  Julian Barnes (2010). “Arthur & George”, p.308, Random House

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• La paradoja es que ocurre exactamente lo contrario. Todo lo que realmente vale la pena en la vida nos llegó gratis: nuestras mentes, nuestras almas, nuestros cuerpos, nuestras esperanzas, nuestros sueños, nuestras ambiciones, nuestra inteligencia, nuestro amor por la familia, los hijos, los amigos y el país. Todas estas posesiones de valor incalculable son gratuitas.
  Pero las cosas que nos cuestan dinero son en realidad muy baratas y pueden sustituirse en cualquier momento. Un buen hombre puede quedar completamente arruinado y hacer otra fortuna. Puede hacerlo varias veces. Incluso si nuestra casa se quema, podemos reconstruirla. Pero las cosas que conseguimos por nada, nunca las podremos reemplazar.

  Earl Nightingale

  Dream, Country, Children

  Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale (2015). “How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.

  Neil Kinnock

  Real, Fishing, Agony

  "Neil Kinnock: 'This election is about now and the future'". Interview with David Hare, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2010.

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• Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it, not as inferior to it but superior - yet in such a way, please note, that it is the single individual who, after being subordinate as the single individual to the universal, now by means of the universal becomes the single individual who as the single individual is superior, that the single individual as the single individual stands in an absolute relation to the absolute.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Mean, Atheism, Way

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• Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of any form of art, art which affirms the value and the holiness of life, the artist must die. To serve a work of art, great or small, is to die, to die to self.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Self, Holiness

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• There are still to be found visionary or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the states, though dismembered and alienated from each other.... The genius of republics, say they, is pacific; the spirit of commerce has a tendency to soften the manners of men, and to extinguish those inflammable humours which have so often kindled into wars. Commercial republics, like ours, will never be disposed to waste themselves in ruinous contentions with each other. They will be governed by mutual interest, and will cultivate a spirit of mutual amity and concord.

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Men, Mutual Interest

  "The Federalist on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, with an Appendix Containing the Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793".

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• Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent.

  Ray Metzker

  Photographer, Victim, Tracking

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• Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox.

  Peter De Vries

  Punishment, Delay, Waste

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• Una persona madura tiene la integridad de permanecer sola. Y cuando una persona madura da amor, lo da sin ataduras. Cuando dos personas maduras están enamoradas, se produce una de las grandes paradojas de la vida, uno de los fenómenos más bellos: están juntas y, sin embargo, tremendamente solas. Están tan juntos que casi son uno. Dos personas maduras enamoradas se ayudan mutuamente a ser más libres. No hay política, ni diplomacia, ni esfuerzo por dominar. Sólo libertad y amor.

  Rajneesh

  Belleza, Libertad, Integridad

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• If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will.

  Tom Robbins

  Beats, Complexity, Ifs

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• [Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Attention, Gains, Standing

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• Aristotle dijo que el tiempo es una medida del cambio, y esta película trata de cambiar en el tiempo, a través del tiempo, sin dejar de ser la misma persona. Es una paradoja filosófica y un dilema moral. Pero "Casablanca" dice que es posible. Se pueden tener ambas cosas. Eso es lo que quiere decir. Y ese es mi deseo para ti: que tengas ambas cosas.

  Robert McKee

  Filosófico, Medio, Deseo

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• Justo a tiempo para la reanudación del debate sobre la guerra en el Congreso, la editorial de la Universidad de Chicago ha publicado The U.S. Army / Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. . . . Se trata de un volumen interesante, no sólo porque te da una idea de lo que piensan nuestros teóricos militares más prestigiosos, sino porque a veces lo que piensan es lo último que te esperas. Especialmente interesante es una sección titulada "Paradojas de las operaciones de contrainsurgencia", que nos dice: A veces, no hacer nada es la mejor reacción" y "A veces, cuanta más fuerza se utiliza, menos eficaz es".

  David L. Ulin

  Militar, Guerra, Marina

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• Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.

  Matthew Fox

  Grace, Sorrow, Way

  Matthew Fox (2004). “Creativity”, p.32, Penguin

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• Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the nature of the universe -- I think that word would be paradox. That's true at the subatomic level, right through sociological, psychological, philosophical levels on up to cosmic levels.

  Tom Robbins

  Philosophical, Reality, Thinking

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• Self control is about being in charge of the direction our lives are taking. Now for the paradox: We get control of our lives, ultimately, not by will power but by surrender.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Self, Surrender, Will Power

  Lewis B. Smedes (2002). “A Life of Distinction: What It Takes to Live with Courage, Honesty, and Gratitude”, Shaw

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• It's the good old paradox of democracy. We are individually pretty small drops in the bucket, but collectively we are all powerful.

  Damian Kulash

  Powerful, Democracy, Buckets

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that maintaining the right amount of fear and suspicion will earn one safety. Fear is promoted by the government as a kind of policy. Fear is accepted, even among the best-educated people in this country, even among the professors with whom I work, as a kind of intelligence. And inspiring fear in others is often seen as neighborly and kindly, instead of being regarded as what my cousin recognized it for - a violence.

  Eula Biss

  Country, Cousin, Fear

  "No-man’s-land". www.believermag.com. February, 2008.

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• Y recuerda: Todo en los negocios es una paradoja. Para ser excelente, tienes que ser coherente. Cuando eres consistente, eres vulnerable a los ataques. Sí, es una paradoja. ¡Ahora enfréntate a ella!

  Tom Peters

  Business, Remembers Everything, Vulnerable

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• Si nos hemos detenido largamente en la obra de Godel, es porque la vemos en la analogía matemática de lo que llamaríamos la paradoja última de la existencia del hombre. El hombre es, en última instancia, sujeto y objeto de su búsqueda. Aunque la cuestión de si la mente puede considerarse algo parecido a un sistema formalizado, tal como se ha definido en el párrafo anterior, probablemente no tenga respuesta, su búsqueda de una comprensión del sentido de su existencia es un intento de formalización.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Men, Understanding, Mind

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• Hackman's paradox: Groups have natural advantages: they have more resources than individuals; greater diversity of resources; more flexibility in deploying the resources; many opportunities for collective learning; and, the potential for synergy. Yet studies show that their actual performance often is subpar relative to "nominal" groups (i.e. individuals given the same task but their results are pooled.) The two most common reasons: groups are assigned work that is better done by individuals or are structured in ways that cap their full potential.

  J. Richard Hackman

  Opportunity, Often Is, Two

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• The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it.

  Terence McKenna

  Drug, Viewpoints, Becoming

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• Active management strategies demand uninstitutional behavior from institutions, creating a paradox that few can unravel. Establishing and maintaining an unconventional investment profile requires acceptance of uncomfortably idiosyncratic portfolios, which frequently appear downright imprudent in the eyes of conventional wisdom.

  David F. Swensen

  Independent, Eye, Acceptance

  David F. Swensen (2009). “Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment, Fully Revised and Updated”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.

  William O'Neil

  Lows, Higher, Seems

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