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“This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first measures taken by the new Bolshevik government in 1918 was t...”
“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
“Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.”
“A deeper thought on the surface is exactly the paradox we need.”
“If wool shrinks when you wash it, why don't sheep get smaller when it rains?”
“I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.”
“We are Surrounded by Paradoxes and Questions!”
“It would distort markets. Besides, if I bought a load of gold when I thought the price was going up, then it would drive up the price at that point. When I came to sell in the future it would depre...”
“If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond the first picosecond. And many of course don't. It's like a human ...”
