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I happen to feel that the degree of a persons intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic. – Lisa Alther

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Thats the risk you take if you change: that people youve been involved with wont like the new you. But other people who do will come along. – Lisa Alther

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Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease. – Lisa Alther

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I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. – Marcel Duchamp

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The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. – Oscar Wilde

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How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms. – George Bernard Shaw

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Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes). – Walt Whitman

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