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• Kids instinctively know - although they will argue to the contrary - that they really are not mature enough to make good decisions on some important issues.

  Zig Ziglar

  Kids, Issues, Decision

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• Limits are possibilities. ... Formal restrictions, contrary to what you might think, free you up by allowing you to concentrate on purer ideas. ... You can be crippled by too many choices, especially if you don't know what your goals are.

  Chip Kidd

  Thinking, Ideas, Goal

  Chip Kidd (2002). “The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.

  Rene Descartes

  Space, Vacuums, Absolutely Nothing

  Principia Philosophiae pt. 2, sec. 16 (1644)

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• Aeroplanes are not designed by science, but by art in spite of some pretence and humbug to the contrary. I do not mean to suggest that engineering can do without science, on the contrary, it stands on scientific foundations, but there is a big gap between scientific research and the engineering product which has to be bridged by the art of the engineer.

  Walter Guido Vincenti

  Art, Mean, Engineering

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• Christianity, righty understood, is utterly unlike religion that man invents. It is so completely contrary to the way man does things that it must have come from God. Take Christmas, for example; only God could have thought of that. When man invents a super being, he comes up with a Superman, or a Captain Marvel. God gives the world a baby.

  Richard Halverson

  Baby, Men, Giving

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• Democracy is not a good that people can enjoy without trouble. It is, on the contrary, a treasure that must be daily defended and conquered anew by strenuous effort.

  Ludwig von Mises

  People, Effort, Democracy

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.112, VM eBooks

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• Contrary to popular belief, we (millennials) can't be won back with hipper worship bands, fancy coffee shops, or pastors who wear skinny jeans.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Coffee, Jeans, Fancy

  Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Very few men can be genuinely happy in a life involving continual self-assertion against the skepticism of the mass of mankind, unless they can shut themselves up in a coterie and forget the cold outer world. The man of science has no need of a coterie, since he is thought well of by everybody except his colleagues. The artist, on the contrary, is in the painful situation of having to choose between being despised and being despicable.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Artist, Self

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.55, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.

  Marina Tsvetaeva

  Men, Mistress, Lovers

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• God has given this way of life to Israel: to abstain from everything which is contrary to nature, that is to say, anger, fits of passion, jealousy, hatred and slandering the brethren; in short, everything that is characteristic of the old man.

  Poemen

  Passion, Men, Israel

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• And when I hear it said that God is good and He will pardon us, and then see that men cease not from evil-doing, oh, how it grieves me! The infinite goodness with which God communicates with us, sinners as we are, should constantly make us love and serve Him better; but we, on the contrary, instead of seeing in his goodness an obligation to please Him, convert it into an excuse for sin which will of a certainty lead in the end to our deeper condemnation.

  Catherine of Genoa

  Men, Grieving, Evil

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• Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about.

  Bill Gates

  Soccer, Kids, Talking

  "More Than a Goal: End Polio" by Bill Gates, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2011.

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• Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind or smoke, and saying it moreover in tones of pride and satisfaction? Is this then something to be said gaily? Is it not on the contrary something to be said sadly, as being the saddest thing in the world?

  Blaise Pascal

  Pride, Thinking, Wind

  Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, Penguin Group USA

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• My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Way, Human Nature, Wrong Time

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.195, Modern Library

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• Toleration, holding that every other man has the same right to his opinion and faith that we have to ours; and liberality, holding that as no human being can with certainty say, in the clash and conflict of hostile faiths and creeds, what is truth, or that he is surely in possession of it, so everyone should feel that it is quite possible that another equally honest and sincere with himself, and yet holding the contrary opinion, may himself be in possession of the truth.

  Albert Pike

  Men, May, Opinion

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• The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Atheism, Stories, Creation

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles.

  Terry Pratchett

  Kings, Battle, Theory

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• What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.

  Eric Hoffer

  Common Sense, Doctrine, Pascal

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Contrary to what we've been told, children can detect deceit in parents much easier than parents can detect deceit in children.

  Tim Sandlin

  Children, Parent, Deceit

  Tim Sandlin (2010). “Social Blunders: A Novel”, p.120, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Jesus didn't tell us not to store up treasures. On the contrary, he commanded us to. He simply said, "Stop storing them up in the wrong place, and start storing them up in the right place."

  Randy Alcorn

  Jesus, Treasure, Stores

  Randy Alcorn (2013). “The Law of Rewards: Giving what you can't keep to gain what you can't lose.”, p.18, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war. The wars of our age are not at variance with popular economic doctrines; they are, on the contrary, the inescapable result of a consistent application of these doctrines.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, War, Age

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• This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance, is of an exactly contrary nature to the operation in which pride, passion, intelligence and habit are constantly engaged within us when we spend our lives without self-communion, accumulating as though to hide our true impressions, the terminology for practical ends which we falsely call life.

  Marcel Proust

  Passion, Mean, Pride

  Marcel Proust (1949). “Remembrance of Things Past: Time regained”

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• We do not believe that if you cut back what government does you diminish its authority. On the contrary, a government that did less, and therefore did better, would strengthen its authority.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Cutting, Government

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Class, Would Be, Normal

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• The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, Night, Waking

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