It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. From LearnThat.org. [Hugo LaFayette Black (18741-1971), U.S. Lawyer, senator, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.]
"`I always lie' is a paradox because if it is true it must be false. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"Quite naturally, in the literature they don't use the term paradox, of course.". From Wordnik.com. [a futile future] Reference
I know this paradox is apparent everywhere, but it does not make it any less important to address. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
There is a certain paradox to the current situation. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond Cultural Imperialism: An Industry Comes of Age] Reference
"That's what you call a paradox, isn't it?" he added. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
But the paradox is that it is she who is least able to. From Wordnik.com. [Women’s Empowerment] Reference
Barone's explanation for this paradox is institutional. From Wordnik.com. [Hard America, Soft America, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
As far as two-slit paradox is concerned, I do not see any. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Cato’s David Boaz Joins George Will in Peddling Bogus “Global Cooling” Stories] Reference
The paradox is resolved in the concept of Communitarianism. From Wordnik.com. [Are You A Communitarian ?] Reference
The word paradox comes from two Greek words, meaning simply. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Browning: How to Know Him] Reference
This paradox is discussed in many books but solved in very few. From Wordnik.com. [A Voice from the Middle Ground] Reference
A simple way to state the paradox is Littlewood's Law of Miracles. From Wordnik.com. [Common Miracles] Reference
"The true paradox is why more should have been expected from ICT.". From Wordnik.com. [Computers, Growth, and Google, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
But the paradox is that each sucessive baby becomes more precious. From Wordnik.com. [Preparing for the Baby...] Reference
And by defintion a paradox is that which SEEMS to be contradictory. From Wordnik.com. [Again, there is absolutely no teleology involved] Reference
‘That’s what you call a paradox, isn’t it?’ asked the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
And the old paradox is that sound takes us there, pitches its tenor. From Wordnik.com. [Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound] Reference
The paradox is that nationalism right now is an international movement. From Wordnik.com. [Getting Out From Under] Reference
However, after a little pondering, I saw that the paradox is only apparent. From Wordnik.com. [Blustery morning...] Reference
In the Meno, innateness solves what is sometimes termed the paradox of inquiry. From Wordnik.com. [Disbelief] Reference
In a sense, however, the existence of such a paradox is not exactly earth-shattering. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
Another way to avoid the paradox is to state up front that we cannot change the past. From Wordnik.com. [The Tail Section » Dharma Special Access, Week 5] Reference
This apparent paradox is less striking, of course, when we read these lines in context. From Wordnik.com. [Dialogic Text] Reference
Yet this apparent paradox is resolved by the distinction between resources and reserves. From Wordnik.com. [Regulation in the Canadian Petroleum Industry] Reference
With us in the Commonwealth the paradox is true that the whole is greater than its parts. From Wordnik.com. [The Commonwealth and Britain's Economic Recovery] Reference
The paradox is evidenced by the enemies belief that Americans have no stomach for the fight. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Sen. Levin: Administration Planning Reduction of Troops in Fall to Help Win Elections] Reference
The paradox is that the more calmly we approach a task, the more dynamically we are operating. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Hunting: Don't Let Stress Build: 8 Simple Ways to Succeed, Relax and Live] Reference
More exactly, it is the contrapositive of Theorem 5 that is usually referred to as the paradox. From Wordnik.com. [Fitch's Paradox of Knowability] Reference
This "epistemological paradox" is the cognitive dissonance lying at the heart of modern science. From Wordnik.com. [September 13th, 2009] Reference
The paradox is that we are unlikely to see signs of change in others until we have forgiven them. From Wordnik.com. [FORGIVENESS] Reference
The twin paradox illustrates a feature of the special relativistic spacetime model, the Minkowski space. From Wordnik.com. [Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?] Reference
The need for indirection in the pursuit of one's own happiness is sometimes called the paradox of egoism. From Wordnik.com. [Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy] Reference
In Flandres, the paradox is that the context that Dumont eschews, as a matter of principal, comes out eloquently in spite of him. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: Rendez-Vous. 4.] Reference
CF: It's a paradox, which is of course interesting. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
The paradox is a result of Mexico's unique place in the global economy. From Wordnik.com. [THE MEXICAN PARADOX] Reference
There is one point, almost to be called a paradox, to be noted about New. From Wordnik.com. [What I Saw in America] Reference
Shall I tell you something that sounds like what they call a paradox?. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
I thought the writers were staying with mind transport only (into your future/past body), so that a paradox is avoided. From Wordnik.com. [The Tail Section » Episode 4.9 “The Shape of Things to Come” Afterthoughts] Reference
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