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

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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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Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do. – George Moore

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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be consistent. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems. – G.W. Allport, Becoming, 1955

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To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for ones own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty. – Rowan D. Williams

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The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires. – Dorothy Corkville Briggs

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