If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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quoted by Douglas R. Hofstadter in Godel, Escher, Bach (1979)Miguel de Unamuno
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This sentence contradicts itself — no actually it doesn't.
Douglas Hofstadter
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Like many but not all of Islam’s principal sites, Mecca is closed to unbelievers, which somewhat contradicts its claim to universality.
Christopher Hitchens
The usual devastating put-downs imply that a person is basically bad, rather than that he is a person who sometimes does bad things. Obviously, there is a vast difference between a "bad" person and a person who does something bad.
Besides, failure is an event, it is not a person — yesterday ended last night.Zig Ziglar
In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.
Jorge Luis Borges
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