{"quotes":[{"text":"Power is paradoxical.","author":"Friedrich Durrenmatt","tags":["paradoxical "],"id":5976,"author_id":"Friedrich+Durrenmatt"},{"text":"Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","basic-necessities","deep","dictum","dictums","diet","epigram","epigrams","famine","fat","food","food-shortage","gnome","gnomes","humor","humour","hunger","hungry","insightful","ironic","irony","made-me-think","make-you-think","malnutrition","maxim","maxims","nutrients","obese","obesity","overweight","paradox","paradoxical","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","puzzle","puzzling","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","starvation","starve","thought-provoking","thoughtful","underweight"],"id":52275,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Nothing is further from the truth than the claim that the American soul is ‘open-minded’ and unbiased; on the contrary, it is ridden with countless taboos of which people are sometimes not even aware.","author":"Julius Evola","tags":["america","paradoxical","truth"],"id":100872,"author_id":"Julius+Evola"},{"text":"Definitions and meanings change all the time. Truth and reality are very volatile, indefinite, multi layered and sometimes very paradoxical. That’s why it is very fiddly to make a set definition for the phenomena of our daily life. ( ' Did not expect it would ever happen, there' ).","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["all-the-time","change","daily-life","definitions","expect","fiddly","happen","indefinite","meanings","multi-layered","paradoxical","phenomena","reality","set","sometimes","truth","volatile"],"id":108344,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"The words of truth are always paradoxical.","author":"Lao Tzu","tags":["words","always","paradoxical "],"id":186015,"author_id":"Lao+Tzu"},{"text":"Pure wisdom is the 'fruit of life' banal platitudes are the 'bane of existence'. ","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["aphorisms","banal","bane","clever","cliche","contradictory","dullness","existence","experience","facts","fruit","funny","funny-but-true","humor","intelligence","ironic","knowledge","lesson","life","morality","originality","overused","paradoxical","platitudes","pop","pop-culture","popular-culture","pure","quotations","quotes","ripe","sayings","trite","truth","unique","unoriginality","wisdom","witty"],"id":235849,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"It is difficult to love someone who loves you, but easy to hate someone who loves you, and love someone who hates you.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["attraction","blind","camaraderie","confusion","desire","difficulties","difficulty","easy","emotion","emotional","emotions","epigram","fact","facts","falling-in-love","feeling","feelings","food-for-thought","hate","hatred","in-love","infatuation","love","love-is-blind","lover","lovers","lovers","lovesick","michael-bassey-johnson","paradox","paradoxical","real","stupid","stupid-love","true-love","truth","witty","witty"],"id":413335,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}