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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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"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are." »Norman Vincent Peale
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"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one." »George Bernard Shaw
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"fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence." »Frank Zappa
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"When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves." »Confucius
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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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"Although rumors persist to the contrary, there were no deaths while making the movie Ben Hur." »Deane Jordan
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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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"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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"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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"contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns." »Hermione Gingold
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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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"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot." »Mark Twain
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"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot." »Mark Twain, What Is Man? (1906)
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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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"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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"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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"A wizard cannot do everything; a fact most magicians are reticent to admit, let alone discuss with prospective clients. Still, the fact remains that there are certain objects, and people, that are, for one reason or another, completely immune to any direct magical spell. It is for this group of beings that the magician learns the subtleties of using indirect spells. It also does no harm, in dealing with these matters, to carry a large club near your person at all times." »The Teachings of Ebenezum, Volume VIII
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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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"Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence." »Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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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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"There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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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