"You need contradictions to make an ideal."

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Alex Shakar

#Needs Quotes #Contradiction Quotes

“It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.”
“Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful as a poet's dream, silent as a city of the dead.”
“Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so much as they evolved with it, as the slower climate changes and uplift produced more grass and less forest.”

Source : William H. Calvin (2010). “A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change”, p.90, William H. Calvin
“The new Squarepusher album as well, although it is proper headf*** industrial. Not one for a pool party in Ibiza!”
“Israel has always been and must always be America's strongest ally.”
“But with woodworking, it's really sort of gratifying to be able to have an actual piece to touch, and then step back and be able to share it.”

Source : "Luke Kirby’s Character Curveball". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 16, 2012.
“It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.”
“Of course killing people is 'wrong', but I think history shows that sometimes it serves the greater good.”

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