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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No choice recurs. We may get similar choices again, but never that exact one. Hesitation—inaction—is just as irrevocable as action. What the motorist, locked on the one-way road, is to space, we are to the fourth dimension: we truly pass this way but once.
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A dream is better than obligation.
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What we want to see is the development of human rights and greater democracy, not just because it is our system but because we think that's the best way that economic and political development go hand in hand.
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When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?
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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.
