Amazon<\/a><\/p>\nSample excerpts:<\/p>\n
The superfluous is the most necessary.
\nVoltaire<\/p>\n
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
\nMargaret Mead<\/p>\n
I shut my eyes in order to see.
\nPaul Gauguin<\/p>\n
We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
\nGeorg Hegel<\/p>\n
We are never prepared for what we expect.
\nJames Michener<\/p>\n
To be believed, make the truth unbelievable.
\nNapoleon Bonaparte<\/p>\n
The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions.
\nMaurice Chapelain<\/p>\n
What we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
\nSydney J. Harris<\/p>\n
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.
\nHenry David Thoreau<\/p>\n
Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.
\nHarry S. Truman<\/p>\n
Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.
\nOscar Wilde<\/p>\n
War is a series of catastrophes which result in a victory.
\nGeorges Clemenceau<\/p>\n
First I dream my painting, then I paint my dream.
\nVincent van Gogh<\/p>\n
We are confronted by insurmountable opportunities.
\nWalt Kelly, From Pogo<\/p>\n
A man chases a woman until she catches him.
\nAnonymous<\/p>\n
I want peace and I’m willing to fight for it.
\nHarry S. Truman<\/p>\n
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
\nConfucius, in Analects<\/p>\n
Love is a kind of warfare.
\nOvid<\/p>\n
All works of art should begin…at the end.
\nEdgar Allan Poe<\/p>\n
An oxymoron has been wisely described as “a compressed paradox.” Looking at it the other way around, I think of a paradox as “an extended oxymoron.” To me, they’re close cousins because they both link up contradictory or incongruous elements. And they both play around in the most fascinating way with the difference between literal truth and figurative truth. For this reason, I include both oxymoronic and paradoxical observations (and a few others, as you shall soon see) under the rubric of oxymoronica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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