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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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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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Contradiction

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

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Contradiction

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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To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays. – Friedrich von Schiller

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