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What is a paradox? Definition: the use of concepts/ ideas that are contradictory to one another, yet, when placed together they hold significant value on several levels. a deeper level of meaning and significance is not revealed at first glace, but when it does crystallize, it provides astonishing insight. a statement whose two parts seem contradictory yet make sense with more thought. What is a paradox?

Basically, it’s a statement that initially appears to be completely false, but upon further thought/examination, it could be true. Yesterday was my mom’s 10th birthday even though she’s been alive for 40 years. Huh?

In Macbeth, the witches chanted, “Lesser than Macbeth and greater.” In the Bible, Christ taught, “They have ears but hear not." Macbeth: “So foul and fair a day I have not seen.” “Not so happy, yet much happier.”

More literary examples George Orwell’s Animal Farm: “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.” Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “I must be cruel to be kind.” “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet”: “The earth that’s nature’s mother is her tomb; What is her burying grave, that is Rainbow in her womb” Wordsworth’s “My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold”: “Child is father of the man” More literary examples

In modern society Wise Fool I am nobody. “What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young.” – George Bernard Shaw “I can resist anything but temptation.” -- Oscar Wilde My advice to you, is to never listen to other people's advice. You shouldn't go in the water until you know how to swim. The beginning of the end

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Let’s look at Ch. 1 in A Tale of Two Cities . . . “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”