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“Obasanjo has openly endorsed violence as a means of governance, embraced and empowered individuals whose avowed declarations, confessions and acts are cynically contrary to the mandate that alone upholds the legitimacy and dignity of his office.”

Mean Individual Violence Office Dignity Contrary Cynicism Confession Declaration Governance Empowered Mandates Legitimacy Cynic

Author:Wole Soyinka

“Responsibility and danger do not tend to free or stimulate the average person's mind- rather the contrary; but wherever they do liberate an individual's judgement and confidence we can be sure that we are in the presence of exceptional ability.”

Mind Persons Individual Ability Responsibility Danger Average Contrary Judgement Exceptional Average Person

Book:On War

Source: On War

“An artist, in my experience, is a man or woman of unusual talent and peculiar, highly individual sensibility, with an independent and probably contrary mind, driven by mysterious passions for which another word is neurosis. In getting from point A to point B, the neurotic goes via point Q. It's in that roundabout that people are either completely crippled and hopeless in life, or highly creative.”

People Men Mind Artist Passion Individual Creative Talent Independent Driven Contrary Mysterious Hopeless Peculiar Unusual Sensibility Neurotic Neurosis Crippled

Author:Peter Schjeldahl

“The Constitution does not protect the sovereignty of States for the benefit of the States or state governments as abstract political entities, or even for the benefit of the public officials governing the States. To the contrary, the Constitution divides authority between federal and state governments for the protection of individuals.”

“Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.”

Men Individual Evidence Surface Contrary Suspicious Earning Trust

Book:Does feminism discriminate against men?

Source: Does feminism discriminate against men?

“Still - and for all Obama's heavy hinting to the contrary - Islam has no "human rights." The ideas of individual rights and the dignity of man are distinctly Western, an outgrowth of the Enlightenment. And while dialogue is dignified; dhimmitude is not, even if it achieves a desired, if temporary, effect.”

Ifs Men Humans Stills Ideas Individual Rights Achieve Effects Enlightenment Dignity Islam Western Human Rights Heavy Contrary Dialogue Temporary Individual Rights

Author:Ilana Mercer

“Contrary to what we've been taught, genes do not determine physical and character traits on their own. Rather, they interact with the environment in a dynamic, ongoing process that produces and continually refines an individual”

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Book:The Genius in All of Us: New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ

Source: The Genius in All of Us: New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ

“Economic activity, especially the activity of a market economy, cannot be conducted in an institutional, juridical or political vacuum. On the contrary, it presupposes sure guarantees of individual freedom and private property, as well as a stable currency and efficient public services.”

Source: The Encyclicals of John Paul II

“We're into an age of excessive individuals, all right. We're into the age were independence, autonomy, convenience, sometimes selfishness. The new trinity of me, myself and I, seems to dominate. We know that's contrary to the very nature of the human person. The very nature of the human person needs God and needs other people.”

People Knows Needs Humans Persons Sometimes Seems Age Individual Independence Contrary Selfishness Autonomy Convenience Trinity Need God

Author:Timothy M. Dolan

“That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general.”

Art Individual Particular Contrary Manifest Destined

Author:August Wilhelm von Schlegel

“If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it's contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.”

Ifs Individual Acting Compassion Moral Alive Circumstances Contrary Pity Selfishness

Author:African Spir

“A theory of personal resurrection or reincarnation of the individual is untenable when we but pause to consider the magnitude of the idea. On the contrary, I must believe that rather than the survival of all, we must look for survival only in the spirit of the good we have done in passing through.Once obsolete, an automobile is thrown to the scrap heap. Once here and gone, the human life has likewise served its purpose. If it has been a good life, it has been sufficient. There is no need for another.”

“People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.”

People Should Art Law Literature Individual Principles Special Criticism Species Contrary Judged Composition Temperament Nature And Art

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)