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• When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Character, Learning

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• Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

  Salvador Dali

  Nature, Mistake, Design

  "Diary of a Genius" by Salvador Dali, Creation Books, (p. 26), 1998.

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• But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.

  Roger Daltrey

  Men, Thinking, People

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• What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Errors, Sincerity, Earnest

  Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Queen Victoria, November 4, 1868.

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• Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.

  Marguerite Duras

  Destiny, Men, Funny Sarcastic

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.17, Grove Press

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• The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Travel, Heaven, Prejudice

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.: With an Essay on His Genius and Writings”, p.243

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• Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome and imaginative landscape, crowded with constant small changes of scene and full of little creeks winding with pools where shiners, crappies and catfish hover.

  Paul Engle

  Country, Small Changes, Iowa

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• A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.

  William Falconer

  Running, Sea, Long

  William Falconer (1784). “An Universal Dictionary of the Marine: Or, A Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship”, p.201

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• Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

  Cyril Falls

  Acceptance, Tradition, Ready

  Cyril Falls (1943). “Ordeal by Battle”

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• Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.

  Renee Fleming

  Voice, Technique, Norm

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people think of me.

  Michael J. Fox

  Character, Unique, Opportunity

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• In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Government, Different

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.298, Bantam Classics

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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

  Wealth, Prosperity, Finance

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Thinking, Order, May

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• Queen Victoria was loyal and true to the Pope; that is what I was told, and so is Edward the Seventh loyal and true, but he has got something contrary in his body.

  Lady Gregory

  Queens, Body, Loyal

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.528, eBookIt.com

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• Really, contrary to popular belief, I like to have a good time and not take myself too seriously.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Good Times, Belief, Having A Good Time

  Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.

  Mark Haddon

  Mean, Two, Fiction

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• Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. A mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Destiny, World, Mystery

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Friendship, Relationship, Courtesy

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.51, Reprint Services Corporation

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• It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

  David Hume

  Philosophical, World, Reason

  A Treatise upon Human Nature bk. 2 (1739)

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• A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

  Aldous Huxley

  Education, Children, Teaching

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• We have no reason to expect the quality of intuition to improve with the importance of the problem. Perhaps the contrary: high-stake problems are likely to involve powerful emotions and strong impulses to action.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Strong, Powerful, Intuition

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• The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Artist, Literature, Morality

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.167, Cambridge University Press

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• Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Dance, Hustle, Literature

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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.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Freedom, Silence, Liberty

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