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In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable. I was experiencing seducer's paradox: The better a seducer I became, the less I loved women. Success was no longer defined by getting laid or finding a girlfriend, but by how well I performed.

There's the paradox of making pop music when you're in your 50s. People weren't meant to be doing that originally and yet they are. Mick Jagger [used to say] we're not going to be doing Satisfaction when I'm in a wheelchair.

That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?

Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?

All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life.

Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.

Paradox likes contradictions with exits.

No paradox, no progress.

When a paradox is widely believed, it is no longer recognized as a paradox.

To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme.

The only way I can access all my strength is to relax. ... The paradox is that you must learn to be relaxed while using all your power.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.

The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.

I often say that leadership is deeply personal and inherently collective. That's a paradox that effective leaders have to embrace.

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.

Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.

One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.

Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it.

The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.

What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because this temporal universe was a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal created it out of His being.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?

If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will.

This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes.

The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The new knowledge was all fact and reason, and it made no sense.

A totally healthy actor is a paradox.

If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties.

Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.

It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money.

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is a paradox; as is a paradox why the number 1 is not prime if it has no other divisors besides himself.

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

There is this paradox in fear: he is most likely to inspire it in others who has none himself!

To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.

Paradoxes are the only truths.

... the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools know it.

the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools know it.

There is this paradox in pride -- it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it.

The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life, not life to years.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.

The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

I have a primary responsibility to myself; to make myself into the best person I can possibly be. Then and only then, will I have something worthwhile to share.- I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity

Live at the empty heart of paradox. I'll dance with you there, cheek to cheek.