I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.
SALVADOR DALI
SALVADOR DALI
Salvador Dali on contradiction
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Aga Khan IVAga Khan IV There are (or is) indeed no contradiction between science and religion, the fields of which are different, and which, far from mutually fighting and persecute, must, on the contrary, complete each other.
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