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• Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Imperfection, Desire, Tendencies

  "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. VII), 1916.

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• On the contrary, a trust in the staying power and travel-worthiness of such good should encourage us to credit the possibility of a world where respect for the validity of every tradition
  will issue in the creation and maintenance of a salubrious political space.

  Seamus Heaney

  Issues, Space, Political

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996”, p.425, Macmillan

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• The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.

  Paulo Freire

  Former, Feels, Oppressed

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because it has been so exclusively dedicated to incanting anemic souls into Heaven, it has been made the tool of much earthly villainy. It has, for the most part, stood silently by while a predatory economy has ravaged the world, destroyed its natural beauty and health, divided and plundered its human communities and households.

  Wendell Berry

  Community, Heaven, Soul

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.319, Counterpoint

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• I see and hear daily that you of the Clergy preach one against another, teach one contrary to another, inveigh one against another without charity or discretion. Some be too stiff in their old mumpsimus, others be too busy and curious in their new sumpsimus. Thus all men almost be in variety and discord.

  Henry VIII of England

  Men, Charity, Busy

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• Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Virtue, Trumpets

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.263, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I'm a writer. I could not or would not ever run a business. I don't even have a secretary. And contrary to some of the stereotypes, entrepreneurs are not loners. I am.

  Peter Drucker

  Running, Entrepreneur, Loner

  Source: www.inc.com

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• Technology is mechanical and contrary to the emotions that inform a person's life. The country music field has especially been hit hard by this. All my songs have been written by people who went out of fashion years ago. Just like da Vinci and Renoir and van Gogh. Nobody paints like that anymore. But it can't be wrong to try.

  Bob Dylan

  Country, Song, Fashion

  "Bob Dylan interview: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• Hollywood is not stupid, contrary to popular belief; it's really a lot of intelligent people trying to figure things out.

  Peter Berg

  Stupid, Intelligent, People

  "Director Peter Berg on Aliens, Rihanna & the Marketing Of ‘Battleship’". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. March 22, 2012.

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• I see that in the future, things that we have lost in the past will be recovered. There's a search for those things, a search for spirituality, for nature, for the goddess religions, for family and human bonding. All that has been lost in this industrial era. People are in desperate need of those things. I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.

  Isabel Allende

  Past, Thinking, People

  "“Skirting the Brink: America’s Leading Thinkers and Activists Confide Their Views of Our Predicament”". Interview with Bob Baldock and Dennis Bernstein, www.motherjones.com. September 1994.

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• It always bothered me when people came off stage and were told how great they were. They weren't, really, in my opinion. It was then I started thinking that, contrary to conventional wisdom, film was the artful medium for the actor, not the stage.

  Jack Nicholson

  Thinking, People, Actors

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• You have to do every movie one at a time. Trilogy is contrary to this ideology. My nightmare is to wake up and find myself the host of a TV series.

  Jack Nicholson

  Wake Up, Tvs, Host

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• If I write a fantastic story, I'm not writing something willful. On the contrary, I am writing something that stands for my feelings, or for my thoughts. So that, in a sense, a fantastic story is as real and perhaps more real than a mere circumstantial story. Because after all, circumstances come and go, and symbols remain.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Real, Writing, Feelings

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, People, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.157, A&C Black

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• Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Moral, Universal

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.125, Hackett Publishing

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• The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Mahabharata, Futility

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi”, p.17, North Atlantic Books

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• The ways of God are entirely different from our ways. To us it seems necessary to employ powerful means in order to produce great effects. This is not God's method; quite the contrary. He likes to choose the weakest instruments that He may confound the strong: "God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong - Infirma mundi elegit ut confundat fortia".

  Columba Marmion

  Strong, Powerful, Mean

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• I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am the Pure and Blessed One. We must reject all thoughts that assert to the contrary.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strength, Blessed, Fate

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.650, Manonmani Publishers

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• We can look at the way of improving the key biochemical processes like photosynthesis itself. A lot of energy is lost to keep the plant cool. So maybe we can think of building plants which are more resistant to heat. Genetically modified plants can be one answer and we can imagine more efficient plants, call them 'energy plants'. And I believe, contrary to what ecologists think, they can still be beautiful plants.

  Jean-Marie Lehn

  Beautiful, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.lindau-nobel.org

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• I am not sure that there has been a "lack of progress." On the contrary, the concept of feminism is not only well established but is now also attracting interest from young women, including teenagers and pre-teens. But a new interest is also symptomatic of the failure of the feminist project and the need for its renewal.

  Laura Mulvey

  Teenager, Feminist, Progress

  Source: en.aup.nl

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• We have been doing things that are contrary; the things that people tell us won't work from the beginning. In fact, the only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Errors, People

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• Surprisingly one of the forces for secularisation was Christianity itself. As soon as it accepted the idea of a contrary opinion, the moment that European opinion decided for toleration, it decided for eventual free marketing opinion.

  Ibn Warraq

  Ideas, Marketing, Opinion

  Source: ibnwarraq.com

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• The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.

  Pascal Bruckner

  Enchantment, Paradise, Opinion

  Source: www.mantlethought.org

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• We will introduce an electric car by 2015. It will be a completely new vehicle concept for mega-cities. We would also have it developed if, contrary to expectations, it did not turn a profit in its first life cycle.

  Norbert Reithofer

  Cities, Expectations, Car

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• Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a book out.

  Ethan Canin

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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