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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

Jack London

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

Mother Teresa

It is a paradox that those who flock to a repertory form like ballet because it preserves the classics also expect new works.

Anna Kisselgoff

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

Herbert Hoover

Somewhat of a paradox.

Robert Hartwig

Life is a paradox, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Nancy Cartwright

There's paradox and irony in the character of Azdak, and it's political. He's not just wacky, he grinds a certain ax.

Frank Wood

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

Niels Bohr

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Hugo Black

If you're expecting the constituency during the course of your campaign to get out and vote and you haven't done it yourself, it's almost a paradox here, why would I vote if he didn't vote kind of thing.

Jerry Shuster

If halos didn't exist, it would just be a big coincidence. Why do we just happen to exist in this epoch where galaxies are on the verge of running out of gas? The existence of hot halos that are refueling the galaxy makes that much less of a paradox.

Richard Bower

I'm a jaded idealist. It's a paradox, but that's what ministry is all about, ... I wouldn't say these things about Ironwood if I didn't believe it.

Ann Summers

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

Adrienne Clarkson

It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes. This is the final paradox, which men call evolution.

Loren Eiseley

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

Paul A. Samuelson

Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism. Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and below the soil continue to enrich, not Africans predominantly, but groups and individuals who operate to Africa's impoverishment.

Kwame Nkrumah

A totally healthy actor is a paradox.

Vittorio Gassman

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

David Hyde Pierce

The paradox about narcissism is that we all have this streak of egotism. Eighty percent of people think they're better than average.

Mark Leary

The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.

Ralph Peters