paradoxes
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"Slavery and segregation have been strange paradoxes in a nation founded on the principle that all men are created equal."
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Other such paradoxes will strike closer to home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
Time-travel paradoxes rest on the false premise that events exist as revisitable locations.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025
Leo highlighted the "outrageous paradoxes" by which enormous amounts of food go wasted in the world "while multitudes of people scramble to find something in the garbage to put in their mouths".
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025
These paradoxes hint that China too was once diverse, as all other populous nations still are.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
