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Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.

I got a lot of paradoxes in my life. I guess I'm a real confused person, but there are some focused parts to my life now, and I'm slowly trying to put all the pieces back together.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

I love paradox. I like to go where people don't expect me to go.

The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take into account past failures and anticipate potential new ways in which failure can occur, we are more likely to produce successful designs.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

The paradox is, I can't miss the good things about my father while he is alive, but I will of course miss him... when he is dead.