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“If people of one''s own side have good conduct, it adds power to oneself. The misconduct on the contrary render one powerless. The enemy taks advantage of it. A skilled statesman never allows enemy to win over.”

People Ifs Political Winning Sides Enemy Advantage Add Oneself Contrary Powerless Statesmen Misconduct Taks

Author:Chanakya

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

Belief Contrary Good Times Having A Good Time Contrary To Popular Belief

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“It is incumbent on us diligently to remember that the kingdom of heaven was promised to the poor in spirit, and that minds afflicted by calamity and the contempt of mankind cheerfully listen to the divine promise of future happiness; while, on the contrary, the fortunate are satisfied with the possession of this world; and the wise abuse in doubt and dispute their vain superiority of reason and knowledge.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“We strive to further the occurrence of whatever we imagine will lead to Joy, and to avert or destroy what we imagine is contrary to it, or will lead to Sadness.”

Joy Imagine Sadness Communication Strive Contrary Nonviolent Communication Avert

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“All the sins of your life seem to be rising up against you. Don't give up hope! On the contrary, call your holy mother Mary, with the faith and abandonment of a child. She will bring peace to your soul.”

“Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.”

“Contrary to the prevailing notion that good governance is bad politics, in reality good governance is good politics. A government should work keeping in mind the welfare of future generations, not the next election.”

Should Mind Reality Government Next Generations India Election Notion Contrary Welfare Governance Future Generation Prevailing Good Governance Bad Politics

Author:Narendra Modi

“Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws.”

Law Politics Race Moral Color Constitution Contrary Distinction Our Society Validity Classification

Author:Thurgood Marshall

“I do not regard the Keynesian revolution as a great intellectual triumph. On the contrary, it was a tragedy because it came so late. Hitler had already found out how to cure unemployment before Keynes had finished explaining why it occured.”

Found Revolution Late Intellectual Tragedy Regard Finished Contrary Cures Triumph Unemployment Economist Explaining Keynes

Book:The Second Crisis of Economic Theory: And Other Selected Papers from the American Economic Meeting, December 27-29, 1971

Source: The Second Crisis of Economic Theory: And Other Selected Papers from the American Economic Meeting, December 27-29, 1971

“Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.”

Wells May Memories Painful Contrary Painful Thoughts

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)

“Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.”

Hard Young Culture Hard Work Intelligent Brave Contrary Grandmother Mexico My Grandmother Widows Macho Intelligent Women

Author:Carlos Fuentes

“As for antichrist occupying the papal chair, it is evident that a pope living contrary to Christ, like any other perverted person, is called, by common consent, antichrist.”

Persons Christ Common Contrary Chairs Pope Consent Evident Antichrist Christ Like

Book:De Ecclesia: The Church

Source: De Ecclesia: The Church

“Science and religion are not antagonists. On the contrary, they are sisters. While science tries to learn more about the creation, religion tries to better understand the Creator. While through science man tries to harness the forces of nature around him, through religion he tries to harness the force of nature within him.”

Men Trying Force Creation Creator Contrary Science And Religion Harness Forces Of Nature Antagonist

Book:The Voice of Dr. Wernher Von Braun: An Anthology

Source: The Voice of Dr. Wernher Von Braun: An Anthology

“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.”

Mean Two Fiction Novel Function Contrary Genre Nasty

Author:Mark Haddon

“On the contrary, therefore, Christ declares that the doctrine of the Gospel, though it is preached to all without exception, cannot be embraced by all, but that a new understanding and a new perception are requisite; and, therefore, that faith does not depend on the will of men, but that it is God who gives it.”

Men Giving Doe Understanding Christ Depends Perception Contrary Doctrine Exception

Book:John Calvin's Commentaries On The Gospel Of John Vol. 1 (Annotated Edition)

Source: John Calvin's Commentaries On The Gospel Of John Vol. 1 (Annotated Edition)

“Beautiful sights arouse feelings of love, and contrary sights bring feelings of disgrace and hate. And the emotions of the soul and spirit bring something additional to the body itself, which exists under the control of the soul and the direction of the spirit.”

Soul Feelings Body Beautiful Spirit Hate Emotion Sight Contrary Disgrace Beautiful Sights

Book:Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic

Source: Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic

“Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages... a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn't be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.”

“From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself.”

Knows Humanity Belief Oneself Boxes Contrary Symbols Greek Resignation Stirring Pandora Pandora's Box

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achievement nor signal success; on the contrary, it rose among trials and reverses, and may almost be said to have been the fruit of defeat.”

May Has Beens Said Results Achievement Rose Notes Fruit Defeat Worthy Brilliant Contrary Trials Popularity Reverse Signals

Book:Life of George Washington

Source: Life of George Washington

“Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.”

“I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director.”

Men Children Made Father Difficult Directors Absence Contrary Factors Disturbing

Author:Michael Haneke

“The embodied self is the same person who woke to the world in a burst of visonary immediacy, who soon found that he was not the center of that world but on the contrary, a dependent and even hapless creature, and who then discovered that he was doomed to die”

World Persons Self Dies Found Creatures Contrary Dependent Doomed Immediacy

Author:Roberto Unger

“The folly of men has enhanced the value of gold and silver because of their scarcity; whereas, on the contrary, it is their opinion that Nature, as an indulgent parent, has freely given us all the best things in great abundance, such as water and earth, but has laid up and hid from us the things that are vain and useless.”

Men Earth Values Given Parent Water Opinion Gold Contrary Useless Vain Best Things Abundance Folly Silver Scarcity All The Best Gold And Silver

Book:Utopia: On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia

Source: Utopia: On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia

“We always worry that we are copying someone else, that we don't have our own style. Don't worry. Writing is a communal act. Contrary to popular belief, a writer is not Prometheus alone on a hill full of fire. We are very arrogant to think we alone have a totally original mind. We are carried on the backs of all the writers who came before us. We live in the present with all the history, ideas, and soda pop of this time. It all gets mixed up in our writing.”

Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

“There comes a moment during which almost every girl or boy falls into melancholy; they are tormented by a vague inquietude which rests on everything and finds nothing to calm it. They seek solitude; they weep; the silence to be found in cloister attracts them: the image of peace that seems to reign in religious houses seduces them. They mistake the first manifestations of a developing sexual nature for the voice of God calling them to Himself; and it is precisely when nature is inciting them that they embrace a fashion of life contrary to nature's wish.”

“As an American I must say I haven't been very encouraged by the way in which the people who run the government in the United States have been listening to those contrary voices. And so long as the power to run the world lies in the hands of people who are quite happy to see it get warmer, or fuel be used more, then would those people who oppose it are crying in the wilderness - that's the real problem.”

People World Way Long Has Beens Real States Problem Hands Government Running Used Lying Voice United United States Havens Cry Listening Contrary Fuel Wilderness Real Problems

Author:Richard Lewontin

“Nobody wants a job where they don't have authority to go along with the responsibility. Quite the contrary. The more authority you give people, the better people you can attract, and the harder they're going to work, and the more loyal they are going to be.”

People Want Giving Jobs Responsibility Authority Harder Contrary Loyal Going To Work

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.”

Ifs Men Running Difficult Talking He Man Habit Oneself Determine Vices Contrary Length Propriety

Author:Giacomo Leopardi

“Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded.”

Men Opinion Contrary Sentimental

Author:Taylor Caldwell

“Contrary to what we conclude naturally, the gospel is not too good to be true. It is true! Its the truest truth in the entire universe. No strings attached! No fine print to read. No buts. No conditions. No qualifications. No footnotes. And especially, no need for balance.”

Needs Universe Conditions Fine Balance Contrary Being True Strings Print Truest Qualifications Footnotes Too Good To Be True Strings Attached Fine Print No Strings Attached

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. Thats not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; its a witness to God making it down to the worst people.”

People Records Worst Blessed Contrary Witness Assumption Typos

Book:One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

Source: One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.”

World This World Contrary Solidarity Totality Unbroken

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of 'greatness.' 'Greatness,' it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the 'great' man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a 'great' man can be blamed.”

Men Seems Action Humanity Impossible Greatness Produce Standards Historical Contrary Saving Great Men Conception Historian Thread Atrocities

Book:War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“There are countries in which public establishments are considered by the government as its own personal affair, so that it admits persons to them only according to its pleasure, just as a proprietor refuses at his pleasure admission into his house; they are a sort of administrative sanctuaries, into which no profane person can penetrate. These establishments, on the contrary, in the United States, are considered as belonging to all. The prisons are open to everyone who chooses to inspect them ad every visiter may inform himself of the order which regulates the interior.”

“It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society.”

Ends Interest Particular Shapes Relation Structure Contrary Mold Systematic

Author:Paulo Freire

“But in our time women are no longer subject to the will of men. Quite the contrary. They have been given every opportunity to win their independence and if, after all this time, they still have not liberated themselves and thrown off their shackles, we can only arrive at one conclusion: there are no shackles to throw off.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Stills Opportunity Winning Given Subjects Independence Contrary Conclusion Our Time Thrown Liberated Shackles

Book:The Manipulated Man

Source: The Manipulated Man

“If a future Pope teaches anything contrary to the Catholic Faith, do not follow him.”

Ifs Teach Catholic Contrary Pope Catholic Faith

Author:Pope Pius IX

“It is contrary to the worship that is in contentedness.”

Worship Contrary Contentedness

Author:Jeremiah

“If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. [...] The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion. So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.”

“I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.”

Believe I Can Can Do Views Periods Terrible Evidence Don't Believe Contrary I Can Do It Lack Of Confidence

Author:Douglas Adams

“Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.”

Way Kind Country Can Do Threat Terrorism Contrary Terrorist Reactions Despite Our Country Damage Fearful Rhetoric Transcendent Terrorist Attacks

Book:Bruce Schneier on Trust Set

Source: Bruce Schneier on Trust Set

“... the twin concepts of nihilism and the antihero have had it. What began with The Wild One and James "nobody understands me" Dean, ran with increasing vehement negativism up through the Stones and Velvets and Iggy ... [I]t may be time, in spite of all indications to the contrary from the exterior society, to begin thinking in terms of heroes again, of love instead of hate, of energy instead of violence, of strength instead of cruelty, of action instead of reaction.”

“Children of God should not make a general confession by acknowledging their innumerable sins in a vague manner, because such confession does not provide conscience opportunity to do its perfect work. They ought to allow the Holy Spirit through their conscience to point out their sins one by one. Christians must accept its reproach and be willing, according to the mind of the Spirit, to eliminate everything which is contrary to God.”

Should Mind Children Doe Christian Spirit Opportunity Sin Perfect Accepting Willing Ought Holy Conscience Contrary Holy Spirit Confession Vague Child Of God Reproach Perfect Work

Book:The Spiritual Man

Source: The Spiritual Man

“The most successful hyperpowers are the ones where there was actual intermixing. Tang dynasty China was Chinas golden age, and contrary to what I was told when I was growing up, Tang China was founded by a man who by todays standards was no more than half Chinese. It was a mixed-blood dynasty that pulled in "barbarians" from the steppe.”

Men Age Today Half Growing Up Successful Growing Blood Standards China Contrary Golden Chinese Barbarians Golden Age Dynasty

Author:Amy Chua

“A program of "disarmament," while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of general agreement - an obviously fantastic assumption!- that would by no means prevent a new war. The imperialists do not make war because there are armaments; on the contrary, they forge arms when they need to fight.”

Ifs Way Needs Mean War Fighting Fiction Arms Program Contrary Fantastic Assumption Agreement Disarmament Pernicious Antagonism Armament

Book:The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and where is it Going?

Source: The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and where is it Going?

“The law... dictated by God Himself is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this.”

Ifs Humans Country Law Courses Contrary Obligation Superiors All Time Globes Laws Of Nature Natural Law Binding Validity

Book:The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc

Source: The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc

“Violence, contrary to popular belief, is not part of the anarchist philosophy. It has repeatedly been pointed out by anarchist thinkers that the revolution can neither be won, nor the anarchist society established and maintained, by armed violence.”

Philosophy Belief Violence Revolution Contrary Thinker Anarchist Contrary To Popular Belief

Book:Lessons of the Spanish Revolution, 1936-1939

Source: Lessons of the Spanish Revolution, 1936-1939

“Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.”

Christian Belief Common Fiction Contrary Frank

Author:Randy Alcorn

“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.”

World Humans Reason Courses Destiny Mystery Contrary Human History Avoided Destiny And Choice

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“Lakoff's idea is that most of our thought is guided by underlying conceptual mappings between two domains that share some content, that overlap in the sets of their attributes. ... Contrary to the assertions of Lakoff and some of the cognitive metaphor theorists, people can read through to an underlying mapping, but only when the surface metaphor is new to them.”

People Two Ideas Poetry Literature Share Metaphor Surface Contrary Attributes Our Thoughts Domain Assertion Cognitive Theorists Mapping

Author:Don Paterson