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矛盾
Contradiction
We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.
我们必须承认和平处于危险之中，人类仍然没有意识到世界对话对武装冲突和流血冲突的优先地位。
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
人是一种需要秩序但又渴望改变的生物，这是构成他的从众性和定义他的越轨行为的法则的核心的创造性矛盾。
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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
矛盾不是虚假的标志，不矛盾也不是真理的标志。
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
我们只是虚伪、表里不一、矛盾;我们对自己既隐藏又伪装。
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
勇气几乎是一种矛盾。它意味着一种强烈的求生欲望，表现为随时准备死去。
Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.
希望，就复活的希望而言，是它所产生的东西与被置于十字架和死亡标记之下的东西之间的活生生的矛盾。
But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.
但是，用理性之钳把原教旨主义者的栗子从矛盾之火中拔出来是没有用的。他们真正的麻烦在别处。
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
勇气几乎是一种矛盾。它意味着一种强烈的愿望，以准备死亡的形式活着。