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• Contrary to popular cable TV-induced opinion, aerobics have nothing to do with squeezing our body into hideous shiny Spandex, grinning like a deranged orangutan, and doing cretinous steps to debauched disco music.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Fitness, Disco Music, Cable Tv

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• I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past days, had evidence to the contrary.

  Fanny Fern

  Believe, Past, Editors

  Fanny Fern (2015). “Caper-Sauce: A Volume of Chit-Chat about Men, Women, and Things”, p.8, The Floating Press

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• The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.

  Catherine the Great

  Common Sense, Humanity, Sound

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• The doctrine of the double motion of the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, and entirely contrary to Holy Scripture.

  Pope Paul V

  Axes, Religion, Atheism

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• Why did the consensus of Christian churches not only accept these astonishing views but establish them as the only true form of Christian doctrine? . . . these religious debates - questions of the nature of God, or of Christ - simultaneously bear social and political implications that are crucial to the development of Christianity as an institutional religion. In simplest terms, ideas which bear implications contrary to that development come to be labeled as 'heresy'; ideas which implicitly support it become 'orthodox.'

  Elaine Pagels

  Christian, Religious, Views

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• If a medium is representational by nature of the realistic image formed by a lens, I see no reason why we should stand on our heads to distort that function. On the contrary, we should take hold of that very quality, make use of it, and explore it to the fullest.

  Berenice Abbott

  Quality, Lenses, Use

  Berenice Abbott, Julia Van Haaften (1989). “Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays”

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• It is contrary to the will of God to eat delicate food hastily.

  Zhang Zhao

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

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• I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.

  Laurence Sterne

  Book, Soul, World

  Laurence Sterne (1768). “A sentimental journey through France and Italy, by mr. Yorick”, p.173

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• a really good play is ambiguous - which is exactly why it endures. Every succeeding generation develops theories about it. The play's words provide very little clue. On the contrary, words are notoriously imprecise and open to every kind of interpretation, so you must search.

  Glenda Jackson

  Play, Generations, Littles

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• Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Principles, Politics, Policy

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• I do not think it is "selling America short" when we ask a great deal of her; on the contrary, it is those who ask nothing, those who see no fault, who are really selling America short!

  J. William Fulbright

  Thinking, America, Faults

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• Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Thinking, Government, Self

  Barbara Tuchman (2015). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.13, Crux Publishing Ltd

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• A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Government, Pursuit, Periods

  Barbara Tuchman (2015). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.10, Crux Publishing Ltd

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• As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.

  William Matthews

  Fire, Quality, Frost

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• This world is not the sum total of God's resources -- on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the prelude of the true world, the true life.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Dream, True Life, World

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• The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused Him of being a bore - on the contrary; they thought Him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround Him with an atmosphere of tedium.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Jesus, People, Justice

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• Imagination, whatever may be said to the contrary, will always hold a place in history, as truth does in romance. Has not romance been penned with history in view?

  Arsene Houssaye

  Views, Imagination, Romance

  Arsène Houssaye (1852). “Philosophers and Actresses”, p.77

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• any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Happiness, Common, Pursuit

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• That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general.

  August Wilhelm von Schlegel

  Art, Individual, Manifest

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• It's not that you aren't likable. On the contrary. You are. It's just that one wonders if you haven't made a career out of being so likable.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Careers, Wonder, Made

  Jerzy Kosinski (2007). “Blind Date”, p.244, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Contrary to our culture, the Biblical doctrine of Grace humbles us without degrading us, and elevates us without inflating us.

  Kenneth Boa

  Biblical, Grace, Doctrine

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• The conclusions seem inescapable that in certain circles a tendency has arisen to fear people who fear government. Government, as the Father of Our Country put it so well, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. People who understand history, especially the history of government, do well to fear it. For a people to express openly their fear of those of us who are afraid of tyranny is alarming. Fear of the state is in no sense subversive. It is, to the contrary, the healthiest political philosophy for a free people.

  Jeff Cooper

  Country, Father, Philosophy

  "Jeff Cooper's Commentaries", Vol. 4, No. 16, December 1996.

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• The best places to live, work, and visit are those places that are willing to uphold their standards in the face of pressure to allow lowest common denominator development... Successful communities understand that when they say no to development that is contrary to the long-term health of their community, they will almost always get better development in its place.

  Ed McMahon

  Nature, Smart, Successful

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• If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.

  Christina Stead

  Should Have, Revolution, Misery

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.199, Open Road Media

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• No matter how many possessions we acquire, they will not provide us with any lasting happiness and freedom. On the contrary, it is often our pursuit of material possessions that causes our problems. If we want ultimate happiness and freedom from suffering, we must engage in the supreme practices of training the mind. There is no other way.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Happiness, Freedom, Practice

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