Paradox in sentence

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Most modern economists deal with the paradox of value by attempting to unify these considerations under the concept of utility, how well something satisfies a person's wants or needs.

Maybe that's the paradox: constraints don't constrain, they allow perfect freedom.

And there's an interesting little paradox, too.

It's a fantastic achievement, and yet, it hides a paradox, which is that nearly 70 percent of all our energy consumption is oil.

It's associated with the concept of paradox of choice.

And in terms of the paradox of choice, there's no question about it that this is a pickle.

I realized that in a world crowded with variation and contradiction, foolish preachers, only foolish preachers like I used to be, see no paradox in the myths and fictions they use to assert authenticity.

And by a strange paradox, the more robotized our traffic grid will be, the more organic and alive its movement will feel.

So the philosopher in me would now like to offer you a paradox: I advise you to stop following advice.

We even now have a religious ritual, a posture, that holds the paradox between powerlessness and power.

This poses a paradox.

Now, I started this talk with a paradox.

History has repeatedly offered an answer to that paradox.

It's what I call a paradox of ownership.

It's what researchers call "the immigrant paradox," and it further illustrates that there's something in the US environment that is making us sick.

So, I wanted to leave on a positive note, because that's the paradox that this life has been: in the places where I learned to cry the most, I also learned how to smile after.

Number one: the first and truest thing is that all truth is a paradox.

And yet, returning to number one, that all truth is paradox, it's also a miracle to get your work published, to get your stories read and heard.

And what makes it really hard to see this paradox and even wrap our brains around it is that we have this thing that I call the quantification bias, which is the unconscious belief of valuing the measurable over the immeasurable.

We can embrace ambiguity, we understand paradox, we're conscious, we're weird, we're quirky.

And that is a paradox of modern societies.

And the paradox is that when you make big changes, you get big benefits, and you feel so much better so quickly.

This is the paradox of the wisdom of crowds, or the paradox of collective intelligence, that what it requires is actually a form of independent thinking.

Because there is a basic paradox: no one can have an inauthentic experience, but no business can supply one.

And so this leads to the paradox that because the disease is only in the poorer countries, it doesn't get much investment.

And the biggest paradox of all?

But it’s not really a paradox– just an example of how special relativity can be easily misunderstood.

This asymmetry accounts for why the paradox isn’t really a paradox.

And nothing is more uncertain– or potentially enlightening– than a paradox.

Today, one of the biggest paradoxes in the universe threatens to unravel the fields of general relativity and quantum mechanics: the black hole information paradox.

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