User talk:AlMaki

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paradoxical
If you look at the quotes, you'll see that paradoxical means having self-contradictory properties, not just seeming to have them. In many of the quotations, the writer talks about "seeming to be paradoxical". --EncycloPetey 21:38, 25 April 2007 (UTC)