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

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Mothers
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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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Change
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Contradiction
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What an antithetical mind! — tenderness, roughness — delicacy, coarseness — sentiment, sensuality — soaring and groveling, dirt and deity — all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay! – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Contradiction

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. – Georges Bataille

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Contradiction

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Contradiction

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

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Contradiction

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