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«It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.»
Author: Hugo Black
(Jurist, Lawyer, Politician)
| About:
Happiness,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
aiming, be full, lasting, paradox
«Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.»
«Life is a paradox, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't»
«Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.»
Author: George F. Will
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
constitute, elite, fascinate, paradox, public good
«I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.»
Author: Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(Founder, Missionary)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
found, hurt, hurts, paradox
«Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement»
«There is this paradox in pride it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so»
«The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.»
«Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
paradox, professor, take away, The Professor, The Thinker, thinker
«So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful for impotence.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
adamant, decided, drift, fluidity, impotence, irresolute, paradox, resolved, solid, undecided
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