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“I trust contrariness. ... I simply rebelled at being commanded.”

Faith Trust Contrary Rebellion Rebel Ordered Commanded

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Book:You By You

Source: You By You

“The more emotionally satisfying an idea is the more it should be critically regarded, because we as humans are prone despite contrary facts to believe our desires are true.”

Ideas Truth Emotion Contrary Satisfying Beliefs Desires Critical Thinking

Author:C.A.A. Savastano

“To the contrary of what appears to be true, even in the direst situation, you have a wealth of choices.”

Wealth Contrary Choice True

Book:Life's Impressions

Source: Life's Impressions

“As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence.”

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Author:Alcibiades

“You will ever depress the devil if you always love those who spit hatred into your face. The devil loves vengeance and anything contrary to this is an agenda to bring down his temporal kingdom!”

Source: Daily Drive 365

“More than illusion, harmful is not knowing that you are living in an illusion. This world is like a reality show, which, contrary to its name, is never real, but preplanned. Likewise is life.”

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Book:Smiling Brahma

Source: Smiling Brahma

“What if opposites could be combined and transcended, paradox embraced, a whole life lived in contradictory case?”

Life Philosophy Living Opposites Embrace Contrary Paradox Combine

Book:Tess of the Road

Source: Tess of the Road

“Truth and facts often have a contrary message with a trying mission to show the cards' real color shuffled in the rough-and-tumble of our social and political arena. ("Imbroglio")”

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Author:Erik Pevernagie

“When I'm working I'm wishing I was doing nothing and when I'm doing nothing I'm wondering if I should be working. I hurry through what I've got to do and then, when I've got nothing to do, I keep glancing at the clock, wishing it was time to go out. Then, when I'm out, I'm wondering how long it will be before I'm back home.”

Work Busy Contrary Idleness Rush

Book:Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence

Source: Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence

“Embrace contradictions for they make up all of life: You will eternally be looking for yourself and seeking ways to lose yourself.”

“Irony; coffee is decaf, milk is lactose-free, candles are wax-free, sooner; nature will be tree-free, the sun will be shine-free and humans emotion-free.”

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Book:Slate

Source: Slate

“So that, upon the whole, we may conclude, that the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: and whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.”

Reason Experience Contrary Irrational Superstition

Book:Of Miracles

Source: Of Miracles

“Rebellion is as much of a cage as obedience is. They both mean living in reaction to someone else's way instead of forging your own.”

Contrary Rebellion Anarchy Rebel Anarchism Anarchist Rebels Contrarianism Contrariness Rebelliousness

Book:Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life

Source: Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life

“I'll always wait for you. Bye! Gotta go.”

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Book:You By You

Source: You By You

“There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.”

Reality Past Impossible Logic Contrary Denial

Book:Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

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Book:Leaders' Ladder

Source: Leaders' Ladder

“On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Past Humanity Given Justice Dark Race Example Advantage Painful Contrary Treated Unfortunate Prosperous

Book:SERVING THE REPUBLIC

Source: SERVING THE REPUBLIC

“I'm a real relationship person - contrary to public perception. I'm either in one or I'm not.”

Persons Real Perception Contrary Real Relationship

Author:Sienna Miller

“I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.”

Feelings Process Communication Activity Intellectual Conscious Contrary Rely

Author:Michael Polanyi

“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.”

People Thinking Play Character Guy Opportunity Unique Angry Contrary Rescue Gigs Think Of Me Misanthropic Unique Opportunities Rescue Me

Author:Michael J. Fox

“Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation.”

Facts Inspiring Contrary Explanation

Book:Housekeeping

Source: Housekeeping

“I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively with the government and particularly the Congress.”

Believe Government I Believe Leader Building Office University Congress Contrary Coalitions

Author:Charles M. Vest

“It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.”

Believe Facts Seems Simple Pay Cutting Taxes Contrary Colleagues Facts Of Life Tax Cuts

Author:George Voinovich

“Let me be clear: Despite Roger Clemens' statements to the contrary, I never injected Roger Clemens, or anyone else, with lidocaine or B-12.”

Clear Let Me Contrary Statements Despite Roger

Author:Jim Lehrer

“Entrepreneurial creation is the generation, de novo, of novelty and surprise- freedom of choice originating in the world of ideas, and imagination beyond all concern with chemicals. The contrary view- that all ideas are determined by material relationships- is the materialist superstition.”

World Ideas Choices Imagination Views Generations Creation Materials Concern Economics Surprise Determined Contrary Chemicals Superstitions Novelty Entrepreneurial Freedom Of Choice

Book:Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“Finally, it is important to make it clear that imagination is not an exercise for those detached from reality, those who live in the air. On the contrary, when we imagine something, we do it necessarily conditioned by a lack in our concrete reality. When children imagine free and happy schools, it is because their real schools deny them freedom and happiness.”

Children Important Real Reality School Imagination Clear Imagine Air Society Exercise Deny Contrary Concrete Detached Freedom And Happiness

Author:Paulo Freire

“Contrary to widespread faith in "communication" and "knowledge transfer," information has a social life, and unless new insights are embedded in the social system they evaporate.”

Social Knowledge Learning Information Communication Management Insight Contrary Transfers Social Life Embedded Social Systems

Book:The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

“Those who, animal-like, live solely according to the senses... misuse God's creation in order to indulge the passions. They do not understand the principle of that wisdom which is revealed to all: that we should know and praise God through His creation and that by means of the visible world we should understand whence we came, what we are, for what purpose we were made and where we are going. On the contrary, they travel through this present age in darkness... with... ignorance of God.”

“Those who seek the Lord should not look for Him outside themselves; on the contrary, they must seek Him within themselves through faith made manifest in action. For He is near you: 'The word is... in your mouth and in your heart, that is, the word of faith' (Rom. 10:8) - Christ being Himself the word that is sought.”

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Author:Maximus the Confessor

“Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the modern world that neither side really knows which direction it's facing, and men of the sharpest judgment are simply turned off from picking either of the poisons.”

“On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class.”

Class Mass Conscious Organization Contrary Organized Working Class Vanguard

Author:Ernest Mandel

“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.”

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Book:The Autobiography and Other Writings

Source: The Autobiography and Other Writings

“Contrary to what we, the people, have been told, we are the power; we have supreme authority because we are the masses and true power always resides with the masses, never with the global elite who, by their very nature, have always been a vulnerable minority and will always continue to be...As long as the masses realize that, of course.”

People Long Has Beens Courses Realizing Authority Mass Contrary Supreme Vulnerable Minorities Elites True Power

Author:James Morcan

People Believe Mean Doe Action Desire Divine Expression Speech Concepts Islam Determined Contrary Command Revelations Submission Misconception Freedom Of Expression Divine Revelation

Author:Anjem Choudary

“If anything pass in a religious meeting seditiously and contrary to the public peace, let it be punished in the same manner and no otherwise than as if it had happened in a fair or market.”

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Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence

“It seems to me quite disastrous that the idea should have got about that Christianity is an other-worldly, unreal, idealistic kind of religion that suggests that if we are good we shall be happy. On the contrary, it is fiercely and even harshly realistic, insisting that there are certain eternal achievements that make even happiness look like trash.”

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Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.”

Men Law Desire Laughing Broken Contrary Lust Injury

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as, 'Speak out. Be heard.' On the contrary, a breath of fresh air would be something like: 'Silence, think for at least 15 minutes, and then maybe speak out.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Would Be Speak Silence Heard Air Minutes Planets Mountain Breaths Envy Contrary Speaks Out Fresh Air Hermits Platitudes

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Jonathan Wells has done us all - the scientific community, educators, and the wider public - a great service. In Icons of Evolution he has brilliantly exposed the exaggerated claims and deceptions that have persisted in standard textbook discussions of biological origins for many decades, in spite of contrary evidence. these claims have been so often repeated that they seem unassailable - that is, until one reads Wells's book.”

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Author:Dean H. Kenyon

“He came to give His life for the sins of mankind, not to take life. Mohammad on the contrary was a warrior and killed many innocent people. True followers of Christ emulate Christ-true followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.”

People Giving Christ Sin Mankind Contrary Innocent Warrior Followers Emulate

Author:Franklin Graham

“Agential realism is not a manifesto, it does not take for granted that all is or will or can be made manifest. On the contrary, it is a call, a plea, a provocation, a cry, a passionate yearning for an appreciation of, attention to the tissue of ethicality that runs through the world.”

World Doe Made Running Attention Cry Passionate Appreciation Contrary Granted Manifest Yearning Realism Tissues Provocation Manifestos

Author:Karen Barad

“May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.”

Years May Has Beens Book Illusion Fellows Humble Contrary Forty Architect Grandeur Public Good Open Book Delusions Of Grandeur Illusions Of Grandeur

Author:Ralph Thomas Walker

“We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.”

Mean Self Hate Self Love Losing Contrary Pursue Selfishness Mixtures Really Mean Loving Others Self Hate Losing Ourselves

Author:Paul Valery

“While there are many causes for which a state goes to war, its fundamental object can be epitomized as that of ensuring the continuance of its policy - in face of the determination of the opposing state to pursue a contrary policy. In the human will lies the source and mainspring of conflict.”

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Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“Overcoming attachment does not mean becoming cold and indifferent. On the contrary, it means learning to have relaxed control over our mind through understanding the real causes of happiness and fulfillment, and this enables us to enjoy life more and suffer less.”

Mind Mean Doe Real Suffering Causes Enjoy Understanding Cold Becoming Overcoming Contrary Fulfillment Attachment Indifferent Enjoy Life Relaxed

Book:How to Meditate: A Practical Guide: Second Edition (Large Print 16pt)

Source: How to Meditate: A Practical Guide: Second Edition (Large Print 16pt)

“Anyone can achieve something important. Contrary to popular belief, the key is not hard work, but finding the right thing to achieve.”

Inspirational Important Hard Belief Achieve Hard Work Keys Findings Contrary Right Thing Contrary To Popular Belief

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“Understand that workaholics aren't productive people. Quite the contrary. A workaholic is someone who takes twice as much time to accomplish half as much as a Lazy Achiever.”

People Inspirational Half Accomplish Contrary Lazy Productive Workaholic Achiever

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“It is not hateful to say that an immoral action is sinful. On the contrary, the most compassionate thing we can do is help people to turn away from sin. To ignore another person's wrongful actions is a sign of apathy or indifference, while fraternal correction is motivated by love for that person's well-being, as can be seen by the fact that our Lord Jesus himself urged such correction. Indeed, the call to repentance is at the heart of the Gospel, as Jesus proclaimed, "The Kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe the Good News" (Mark 1:15).”

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