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“Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.”

Sometimes Passion Produce Weakness Contrary Daring Avarice Timidity Obstinate

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The new education must consist essentially in this, that it completely destroys freedom of will in the soil which it undertakes to cultivate, and produces on the contrary strict necessity in the decisions of the will, the opposite being impossible. Such a will can henceforth be relied on with confidence and certainty.”

Decision Impossible Produce Opposites Contrary Certainty Soil Strict

Book:Addresses to the German nation

Source: Addresses to the German nation

“Capital can seldom be made productive, without undergoing several changes both of form and of place, the risk of which is always more or less alarming to persons unaccustomed to the operations of industry; whereas, on the contrary, landed property produces without any change of either quality or position.”

Persons Made Form Quality Risk Position Produce Industry Property Contrary Operations Productive

Book:A treatise on political economy, or, the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth

Source: A treatise on political economy, or, the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth

“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”

Character Individual Process Environment Produce Taught Determine Contrary Genes Traits Ongoing Character Trait

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

“It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty. This is what Agnosticism asserts; and, in my opinion, it is all that is essential to Agnosticism. That which Agnostics deny and repudiate, as immoral, is the contrary doctrine, that there are propositions which men ought to believe without logically satisfactory evidence; and that reprobation ought to attach to the profession of disbelief in such inadequately supported propositions.”

Source: Lectures and Essays

“There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, "That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults." Common experience teaches the contrary. Wine throws a man out of himself, and infuses dualities into the mind which she is a stranger to in her sober moments.”

Men Mind Doe Moments Turns Common Teach Produce Wine Faults Stranger Contrary Sober Duality Drunkenness Intemperance Common Experience

Author:Joseph Addison

“It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this may be said for love, that if you strike it out of the soul, life would be insipid, and our being but half animated.”

Ifs Love May Doe Said Soul Would Be Certain Passion Half Effects Produce Degrees Strikes Contrary Animated Insipid Soul Life

Book:Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

Source: Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

“As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.”

Turns Quality Fire Produce Raised Contrary Sensations Intensity Excess Frost Good Quality

Author:William Matthews

“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

“The ways of God are entirely different from our ways. To us it seems necessary to employ powerful means in order to produce great effects. This is not God's method; quite the contrary. He likes to choose the weakest instruments that He may confound the strong: "God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong - Infirma mundi elegit ut confundat fortia".”

World Way May Mean Different Seems Order Strong Powerful Effects Produce Weak Shame Method Instruments Contrary Likes Rosary

Author:Columba Marmion

“Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom consume the produce of ten times, frequently of a hundred times more labour than the greater part of those who work; yet the produce of the whole labour of the society is so great, that all are often abundantly supplied, and a workman, even of the lowest and poorest order, if he is frugal and industrious, may enjoy a greater share of the necessaries and conveniencies of life than it is possible for any savage to acquire.”

People Ifs May Whole Order Nations Enjoy Numbers Greater Share Produce Ten Hundred Labor Contrary Acquire Labour Civilized Savages Lowest Poorest Industrious Workmen Frugal

Author:Adam Smith

“It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already produced; it dries up the source of riches, while it usually respects acquired property. Freedom, on the contrary, produces far more goods than it destroys; and the nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.”

Certain Individual Nations Wealth Produce Source Taxes Resources Increase Institutions Property Riches Contrary Ruins Goods Despotism Preventing Depriving

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“I say that in narrative paintings one should mingle direct contraries close by, because they produce strong contrasts with one another, and all the more so when they are very close together; that is, the ugly next to the beautiful, the big to the small, the old to the young, the strong to the weak; in this way you will vary as much as possible and close by.”

Way Should Bigs Together Beautiful Young Next Strong Produce Painting Direct Weak Ugly Contrary Narrative Contrast Vary

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“In the Christian sense, love is not primarily an emotion but an act of the will. When Jesus tells us to love our neighbors, he is not telling us to love them in the sense of responding to them with a cozy emotional feeling. You can as well produce a cozy emotional feeling as you can a cough or sneeze. On the contrary, he is telling us to love our neighbors in the sense of being willing to work for their well-being even if it means sacrificing our well-being to that end.”

Ifs Wells Mean Ends Feelings Christian Jesus Love Is Emotion Sacrifice Produce Emotional Willing Neighbor Contrary Well Being Responding Cozy

Book:Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.

Source: Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.

“The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.”

May Littles Said Eye Effects Produce Color Painting Ill Contrary Shock Opposition Contrast

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)

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