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.
Ben Sherwood
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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.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Soren Kierkegaard
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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.
Soren Kierkegaard
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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.
Paul Craig Roberts
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Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.
Seth Godin
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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.
Richard Simmons
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It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is of contending elements of vice and virtue, and ever mainly influenced by the predominant principle of self-interest. It may, indeed, be confidently asserted, that there never was that government called a republic, which was not ultimately ruled by a single will, and, therefore, (however bold may seem the paradox,) virtually and substantially a monarchy.
Alexander Fraser Tytler
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New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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Imperfect action beats perfect inaction every time.
Harry S Truman
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The reality of her trauma to consciousness so that she could free herself from its intrusions into her everyday life.
Bessel van der Kolk
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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.
Ben Sherwood
