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Let us just pray that it's not, because the last thing the state needs is Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's very important that the people of California knew who you really are, because, you know, you've been saying so many things and then contradicting them a few weeks later. (Quote by - Arianna Huffington)

The governor didn't pitch political reform with his fingers crossed behind his back, .. But political reality sets in. Circumstances change, and he's very changeable. In a certain sense, that's a good thing. .. But when you're flexible, you also have to contradict what you've said before. (Quote by - Bob Stern)

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't. (Quote by - Brad Holland)

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it. (Quote by - Alexander Cockburn)

Walker contradicted himself in that very meeting. (Quote by - Bob Edwards)

A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues . (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable. (Quote by - Carl Sagan)

A virtuous person is the one able to contradict himself in a simple minute, but more virtuous is the one who does the same thing in privacy and not in front of an audience. (Quote by - Ezequiel D'Leon Masis)

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. (Quote by - William James)

It's a contradiction in the governor's proposal to make sure the education dollars go to property tax relief when at the same time he's forcing teacher salaries up. (Quote by - Sen. Richard Nass)

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind--and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)

The fatigue of body and mind has almost unnerved this old frame, and unfitted me to endure the burdens which Providence calls upon me to bear. I find as I grow old I grow more peevish and cannot bear so much contradiction, therefore I am called uncharitable and severe. No matter -- this frail life will soon be over. (Quote by - William Miller)

Civil marriage is a very serious problem. I think that even the religious understands that we must look for some kind of a solution because we have some contradictions. . I'm sure there are many solutions. (Quote by - Avigdor Lieberman)

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. (Quote by - An Wang)

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)

What did this person become famous for? .. We have programs at the moment that follow a trend that contradicts the traditions and family structure of Turkey, which is a country with a 98 percent Muslim population. I am worried about this. (Quote by - Recep Tayyip Erdogan)

Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life. (Quote by - Fernand Braudel)

This recommendation is wrong, and clearly contradicted by the president. We will dispute it in a court of law. (Quote by - David Kendall)

We have said we are willing to exert every possible effort to know who's behind it because it's absolutely contradicting the policies of Arafat and the Palestinian Authority to smuggle arms. (Quote by - Saeb Erakat)

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is at its most outrageous. (Quote by - Tony Hendra)

You are a woman:- you must never speak what you think; your-words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may-contradict your words. (Quote by - William Congreve)

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a temporary victory - sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted.. but to weigh and consider. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction. (Quote by - William Blake)

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