Some sedatives produce the paradoxical effect of making the person more anxious.

一些镇静剂产生出使人更紧张这样自相矛盾的结果。

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In the paradoxical world of Heraclitus, change is also that which made things what they are.

在Heraclitus矛盾的世界里，变化是事物的属性。

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The fashion for flattening hierarchies has had the paradoxical effect of multiplying meaningless job titles.

这种令人愉快的等级时尚对没有意义的头衔的增多具有矛盾影响。

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Victor Frankl Instead after especially reading about paradoxical intentions by Victor Frankl, I started to give myself the permission to be human.

但在读过,有关“矛盾意向“的阐述后，我开始准许自己为人。

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So this idea that the human being is a mixture of clay, Captures that paradoxical mix of sort of earthly and divine elements, dependence and freedom that marks the human as unique.

这便是人类是黏土混合物，具有世俗和神圣因素的奇特混合，同时具有依赖性和独立性就是人类特别之外。

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The paradoxical effect of government aid is that it makes people going to college worse off.

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Medicare is in the paradoxical position of having unsustainable growth and too-low fees to attract providers.

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The fashion for flattening hierarchies has had the paradoxical effect of multiplying meaningless job titles.

ECONOMIST: Inflation in job titles is approaching Weimar levels