Ben Sherwood Quotes
In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.
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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
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He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
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Every action (or inaction) involves a choice between what is more important and what is less important.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
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A totally healthy actor is a paradox.
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Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.
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The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.
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My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.
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One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.
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Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.
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I want people to get hit and caught by my music.
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A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it, not as inferior to it but superior - yet in such a way, please note, that it is the single individual who, after being subordinate as the single individual to the universal, now by means of the universal becomes the single individual who as the single individual is superior, that the single individual as the single individual stands in an absolute relation to the absolute.
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The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created differential rights based on race, gender and, any day now, sexual orientation. The great liberal revolution, centuries in the making, that brought forth equality in law has been overthrown. In its place we see rising a new feudal legal order of status-based rights.
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Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.
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I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court jester and a clown and make people laugh and make them feel good about themselves.
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Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.
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He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.
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By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean-the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the sound of surf or flowing streams.
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Take a deep breath and think of the three things you are grateful for, right in this moment.
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In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.
