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  • Contradiction is woven through the American history, and as a Chicana, that contradiction is felt in my sinew and bone.

    Indicator Species : Emily Warn : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • E.U. Talks With Microsoft Called a Contradiction European Commission, which is urging governments on the Continent to consider using open-source software to make their computer systems more compatible, is negotiating with Microsoft to extend its use of the proprietary Windows operating system on 36,000 government computers, a spokesman said Monday.

    NYT > Global Home By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN 2011

  • Logic assumes, for example, that things are what to a careful scrutiny they seem to be; that animals, trees, mountains, planets, are bodies with various attributes, existing in space and changing in time; and that certain principles, such as Contradiction and Causation, are true of things and events.

    Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

  • "The Cultural Contradiction of Capitalism" came out in 1976 and extended upon his ideas about post-industrial culture, an increasingly structured economy coexisted with ever more unbounded private life.

    Daniel Bell, influential sociologist, dies at 91 2011

  • The Law of Constant Contradiction states that for every plausible piece of advice a parent receives about college admissions, another equally plausible and opposite piece of advice will directly contradict it.

    Q and A with Andy Ferguson about his bestseller Crazy U 2011

  • Bark Bark Woof Woof: Annals of Contradiction skip to main | skip to sidebar

    Annals of Contradiction 2009

  • A "smart, interesting novel where not enough happens" to hold the readers 'interest (let's play Spot the Contradiction kids!) is a failed act of communication.

    Little Kids Can Write Books Better Than You 2009

  • (Also a Utahn, but both a Mormon & ex-Mormon, in defiance of the Law of Contradiction.)

    Stuff We Did This Weekend 2010

  • For a Buddhist, this is a very obvious Contradiction.

    Politics and Environment: An Interview 2010

  • Contradiction after contradiction, abrupt gear shifts, perpetual motion that never reaches a destination.

    Michael Brenner: Obama vs. Obama 2010

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