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«The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| About:
Compromise,
Weakness
| Keywords:
admission, admissions, compromise, compromised, contradictories, contradictory, sounds
«The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth»
«To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.»
Author: Emma Goldman
| Keywords:
contradictories, contradictory, hash, hashed, indefinite, methods, movement, radical, The American, uncertain
«The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| About:
Soul
| Keywords:
conflicting opinions, contradictory, hospitable, impartiality, sentiments
«The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
centuries, contradictory, debts, necessities, oscillated, oscillates, oscillating, payment, serenely, social order, unaware
«These two chapters (Genesis 1 and 2), instead of containing, as has been believed, one continuous account of the creation, written by Moses, contain two different and contradictory stories of a creation, made by two different persons, and written in»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
account, account of the creation, chapters, contain, containing, continuous, contradictories, contradictory, Genesis, Moses, stories, The Creation
«To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together . . . humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
| Keywords:
contradictories, contradictory, dependence, go together, manly, reliance
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