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"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead." »Aldous Huxley
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"He that rectifies a crooked stick bends it the contrary way, so must he that would reform a vice learn to affect its mere contrary, and in time he shall see the springing blossoms of a happy restoration." »R Chamberlain
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"Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves." »Confucius
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"Although rumors persist to the contrary, there were no deaths while making the movie Ben Hur." »Deane Jordan
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"When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves." »Confucius
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"Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters." »Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
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"When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves." »Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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"Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary." »Julius Rosenwald
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"contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns." »Hermione Gingold
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"Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young." »Ursula K. LeGuin
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"This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half." »Aristotle
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"Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity." »Marcus Aurelius, Meditations – Book Six
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"Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before." »Herodotus
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"There are two things which cannot be attacked in front ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion." »Emerich Edward Dalbert
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"Los Angeles, it should be understood, is not a mere city. On the contrary, it is, and has been since 1888, a commodity; something to be advertised and sold to the people of the United States like automobiles, cigarettes and mouth wash." »Morrow Mayo
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"Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion." »Daniel J. Boorstin
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"contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first." »Peter Ustinov
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"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is." »George Santayana
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"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is." »George Santayana
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"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms." »Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4
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"The pathway to building a legacy of fearless influence is not spanned by rainbow hue or prettily lined by daisies. On the contrary, it is shaped by our ability to grow less in our eyes in order to grow more in what we do." »Joseph Nyangon
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"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness." »Archibald MacLeish
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"If you do not read and listen to the opposite ideas, you can always remain a stupid person! Opposite ideas, however contrary they may sound, are your greater chances on the way to truth!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Burning books is not as horrible as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Burning books is not as grave as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous -- on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"Whoever has inhabited the United States must have perceived that in those parts of the Union in which the Negroes are no longer slaves the have in no wise drawn nearer to the whites. On the contrary, the prejudice of race appears to be stronger in the states that have abolished slavery than those where it still exists and nowhere is it intolerant as in those states where servitude has never been known." »Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
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