Topics ยป Contradiction
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Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life.
I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.
What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality -- soaring and groveling, dirt and deity -- all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.