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Friday, 4 July 2008

Daily Quote: "There is no sanctuary of virtue like home." (Everett, Edward - Home)

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All that glitters is not gold.

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Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

-- Eliot, George | Paradox

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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.

-- Kierkegaard, Soren | Paradox

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The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.

-- Proust, Marcel | Paradox

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The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them.

-- Wilde, Oscar | Paradox

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