Tip-Off #51 - Contradiction

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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(Notes and reading at the end.)

"Everything about me is a contradiction," said Orson Welles, "and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of opposition; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize …