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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

-- George Eliot

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Nice dress. Take it off.

-- Janet Evanovich

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When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he has met with a powerful thing which he does not know how to handle.

-- Robertson Davies

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The flowers anew returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.

-- Ambrose Philips

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He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.

-- Arthur Henderson

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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.

-- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

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Faith is conviction without evidence, and sometimes even in the face of contrary evidence. In some quarters, this quality is perceived as a virtue.

-- Jack McDevitt

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Now your boat comes in every day with Cosmic Ordering.

-- Stephen Richards

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Music, my rampart and my only one.

-- Edna St. Vincent Millay

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