214 Contrary Quotes for You to Enjoy

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. John Petit-Senn

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We won't be able to stop disasters from happening. On the contrary, climate change may increase the frequency and severity of floods, droughts and storms. But we are better equipped today to prepare for them and reduce their impact. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

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Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love. Thomas Aquinas

Love Hatred Nothing Every Suitable Must Hated Through Caused Precede Contrary Being Loved Which Hence Thing Save

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth. Jean de la Bruyere

Truth Exact Generally Contrary Often Believed

Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself. I would be broken with fatigue at the day's end. Other days, on the contrary, the work would be a most minute and delicate fractional crystallization, in the effort to concentrate the radium. Marie Curie

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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. Octavio Paz

'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue. Samuel Adams

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Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability. Timothy Geithner

The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself. Alan Moore

The sad fact is that actual artistic oppression - book banning in its many modern forms - is a matter of course in the entertainment industry, especially when the underlying product is declared politically incorrect or runs contrary to the interests of Hollywood's political altar, the Democratic Party. Andrew Breitbart

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Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, blue-collar environment 40 minutes outside of New York until I was 11. David Cassidy

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A red tie is contrary to the dignity of the tie and of male dress in general. Joseph Abboud

Dignity Dress General Red Tie Male Contrary

More than 150 years after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, slavery is illegal almost everywhere. But it is still not abolished - not even here, in the land of the free. On the contrary, there is a cancer of violence, a modern-day slavery growing in America by the day, in the very places where we live and work. It's called human trafficking. Josh Hawley

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Money Rich Take Wiser Contrary Than Poor Much Popular Belief

Private philanthropy is the direct expression of the great Christian principle of the brotherhood of man and the Golden Rule. Private philanthropy indeed is the only valid expression of these ethical principles; compulsory charity through 'social legislation' is the exact contrary: it is the evil imposition of force by one group on another. Murray Rothbard

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Today we see how utterly mistaken was the Milton Friedman notion that a market system can regulate itself... Everyone understands now, on the contrary, that there can be no solution without government. Paul Samuelson

Today Government Market On The Contrary Everyone System Solution See Mistaken Without Understands How Itself Contrary Notion Regulate Now Utterly Milton

Contrary to what a lot of people think, I haven't been domesticated. Prince

People Think Been Lot Domesticated Contrary

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison. Simone Weil

Destination Progress Poison Nothing Other Idea Contrary Than Anything Origin

It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow. Walter Kaufmann

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One of my top tips for aspiring entrepreneurs: Tell everyone you know about your idea. This runs contrary to the instinct that most people have, because they're afraid someone is going to 'steal my ideal.' Ideas alone are worth very little; it's in the execution and market feedback that companies are made. Aaron Patzer

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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism. Alain Badiou

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I think, for the English accent, we don't say our Rs, contrary to a standard American accent. Alex Roe

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