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Lord Acton There are two things which...
Will Adams Now being in such grace and...
Kate Adie It's totally mistaken to suppose...
Ralph Allen At that time, the academic...
Thomas Aquinas The theologian considers sin mainly...
Thomas Aquinas Love must precede hatred, and...
Hannah Arendt No punishment has ever possessed...
Rudolf Arnheim Today we no longer regard the...
Saint Augustine Miracles are not contrary to...
Irving Babbitt Tell him, on the contrary...
Alain Badiou Liberal capitalism is not at...
Mikhail Bakunin I am truly free only when...
Robert Barclay So the question is, First...
Frederic Bastiat Life, liberty, and property do...
Julien Benda I shall go further and say...
Silvio Berlusconi On the contrary, I tried on...
Juliette Binoche I've never thought of my...
Conrad Black I do not at all have...
Sidney Blumenthal On the contrary, it might even...
Omar Bongo Globalization, far from putting an...
Daniel J. Boorstin Knowledge is not simply another...
David Brainerd My disorder has been attended...
Joseph Brodsky For the poet the credo or...
Jean de la Bruyere The exact contrary of what is...
George W. Bush Some have argued that confronting...
Samuel Butler If you follow reason far...
Jack Cade They say that our sovereign is...
Giraldus Cambrensis Evil borders upon good, and...
Albert Camus Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood...
Albert Camus To abandon oneself to principles...
Karel Capek Relativism is not indifference; on...
Jimmy Carter I hate to see complacency...
George Chapman Extremes, though contrary, have the...
Alonzo Church The only thing that might have...
Richard Cobden On the contrary, all the world...
Confucius When we see persons of worth...
Gustave Courbet When we see men of worth...
Salvador Dali Mistakes are almost always of...
Roger Daltrey But contrary to what some...
Claude Debussy Extreme complication is contrary to...
Peter DeFazio To the contrary, I believe the...
Benjamin Disraeli What is earnest is not always...
Benjamin Disraeli The question is this, "Is man...
David Douglass If the facts are contrary to...
Matt Drudge Not everything I do is gossip...
Elaine Dundy Acting doesn't bring anything to...
Marguerite Duras Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't...
Sherwood Eddy Faith is not contrary to...
Jonathan Edwards The way to Heaven is ascending...
Laurent Fabius This assumes an upward revision...
William Falconer A long sea implies an uniform...
Cyril Falls Leadership is particularly necessary to...
Enrico Fermi There are two possible outcomes...
Enrico Fermi There's two possible outcomes: if...
John Kenneth Galbraith Wealth is not without its...
Richard Le Gallienne On the contrary, woman is the...
Peter Garrett Our career path has tended to...
Jose Ortega y Gasset We do not live to think...
Susan George The question is not only what...
Edmond De Goncourt The English are crooked as a...
Mark Haddon I don't mean that literary...
Dag Hammarskjold Destiny is something not be to...
Peter Hammill I continue to believe, contrary...
Arthur Henderson On the contrary, the characteristic...
Herodotus Some men give up their designs...
Charlton Heston You could think of extraordinary...
Bernard Hinault Illegal drug use runs contrary...
Laurence Housman It is the sincerest thing I...
David Hume It is not contrary to reason...
Aldous Huxley Consistency is contrary to nature...
Aldous Huxley A child-like man is not...
Aldous Huxley Consistency is contrary to nature...
Bill Hybels He's dangerous because when God...
King Hassan II It is not cowardly, quite the...
Leon Jouhaux This disaster did not force us...
Walter Kaufmann It is widely assumed, contrary...
Frank B. Kellogg It is idle to say that...
Jack Kevorkian The patient's autonomy always, always...
Michael Korda Never walk away from failure...
David Korten And each of these perspectives...
Paul Kurtz The meaning of life is not...
Christian L. Lange On the contrary. Internationalism also...
David Herbert Lawrence The true artist doesn't substitute...
Fran Lebowitz Contrary to popular opinion, the...
Michael Lewis People who think they know...
John Linder Despite claims by some to the...
Adolf Loos The house has to please...
Niccolo Machiavelli A return to first principles...
Archibald MacLeish Once you permit those who are...
Ernest Mandel On the contrary, history generally...
Peter Marshall When we long for life without...
Marlee Matlin I've always wanted to write a...
W. Somerset Maugham Imagination grows by exercise, and...
W. Somerset Maugham The common idea that success...
Jonathan Mayhew I now add, farther, that the...
Thomas Middleton Ground not upon dreams; you...
Nelson A. Miles On the contrary, if they are...
John Stuart Mill If all mankind minus one were...
Bode Miller I always do the contrary of...
Jim Mitchell Contrary to what the fans may...
James Mooney Among the southern tribes, on...
Jan Morris Its smallness is not petty; on...
John Negroponte To the contrary, I think we...
Friedrich Nietzsche Extreme positions are not succeeded...
Gary North Jesus was not denying the...
Dudley North So that it cannot be denied...
Dudley North No Man is richer for having...
Michael Palin Contrary to what the politicians...
Blaise Pascal Faith certainly tells us what...
Blaise Pascal Faith indeed tells what the...
Octavio Paz Literature is the expression of...
Thomas Perry Contrary to what many writers...
John Charles Polanyi The respect for human rights...
Michael Polanyi I shall suggest, on the...
Manuel Puig Contrary to what Kafka does, I...
Joseph Ratzinger The wrath of God is a...
David Ricardo Gold, on the contrary, though...
Anne Rice Very few beings really seek...
Carl Rogers I believe that the testing of...
Julius Rosenwald Do not be fooled into...
Joseph Rotblat To sum up, there is no...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau I undertake the same project...
Donald Rumsfeld Work continuously to trim the...
Joanna Russ Faith is not contrary to the...
Dora Russell Hence we did not foster...
Walter Salles On the contrary, I'm a strong...
Margaret Sanger The submission of her body...
Edward Sapir These examples of the lack of...
Franz Schubert There are two contrary impulses...
John Petit-Senn True courage is like a kite...
William H. Seward I submit, on the other hand...
Omar Sharif I don't think any actor feels...
Joe Slovo Reality shows that, contrary to...
Wole Soyinka See, even despite pious statements...
Baruch Spinoza Whatsoever is contrary to nature...
Anne Stevenson My earlier poems were sadder...
Lytton Strachey The genius of the French...
Peter Straub Fear and I were old buddies...
Jalal Talabani The Kurdish people welcome the...
Leo Tolstoy If there existed no external...
Paul Tournier Acceptance of one's life has...
Benjamin Tucker Socialism, on the contrary, extends...
Peter Ustinov Contrary to general belief, I...
Flavius Renatus Vegetius A handful of men, inured to...
Charles Vest I believe that our office has...
Giambattista Vico It is true that men themselves...
George Voinovich It is time to recognize a...
Voltaire Nothing can be more contrary...
Voltaire The little may contrast with...
Ralph Thomas Walker May I say, finally, that I...
Stand Watie I call upon my God to...
William Watson Personally, I do not believe...
Simone Weil Nothing can have as its...
Simone Weil With no matter what human...
Wim Wenders On the contrary a film can...
William Whewell The system becomes more coherent...
Walt Whitman The shallow consider liberty a...
Roy H. Williams Contrary to popular belief, Americans...
Brock Yates The automobile, both a cause...



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