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• Contrary to the popular notion that only creationism relies on the supernatural, evolutionism must as well, since the probabilities of random formation of life are so tiny as to require a 'miracle' for spontaneous generation tantamount to a theological argument.

  Chandra Wickramasinghe

  Miracle, Tiny, Generations

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• The sovereigns of the earth do not always grant audience readily; on the contrary, the King of Heaven, hidden under the eucharistic veils, is ready to receive anyone.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Kings, Heaven, Veils

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• Living God's way means putting away your self-centeredness and committing yourself to follow God's Word in spite of any feelings to the contrary.

  John C. Broger

  Mean, Commitment, Self

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• Pain is a sensation produced by something contrary to the course of nature and this sensation is set up by one of two circumstances: either a very sudden change of the temperament (or the bad effect of a contrary temperament) or a solution of continuity.

  Avicenna

  Pain, Health, Two

  Avicenna (1999). “The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn Fī'l-ṭibb)”, Abjad Book Designers & Builders

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• Belief is reassuring. People who live in the world of belief feel safe. On the contrary, faith is forever placing us on the razor's edge.

  Jacques Ellul

  Faith, People, Forever

  Jacques Ellul (2012). “Living Faith: Belief and Doubt in a Perilous World”, p.112, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• For what is wedlock forced but a hell,
  An age of discord and continual strife?
  Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss,
  And is a pattern of celestial peace.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Patterns, Bliss

  William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.247, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Perhaps because our culture and politics have gone so off course, with values so contrary to those of Jesus, more and more people intuitively recognize that His vision of God's kingdom-a new world of compassion, justice, integrity and peace- is the Good News they've been searching and waiting for.

  Tony Campolo

  Jesus, Integrity, Godly

  Tony Campolo (2010). “Red Letter Christians (Large Print 16pt)”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent, or careless, but on the contrary it awakens us, urges us on, and makes us active in living righteous lives and doing good. There is no self-confidence to compare with this.

  Huldrych Zwingli

  Inspirational Life, Self Confidence, Lazy

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• If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Honesty, Liars

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• I have always challenged myself and it's also important to learn from the rivals. Every rider has his own style, and you have to count on some elements that cannot be changed. On the contrary, the bike or the tires can change and it's important to adapt yourself. It's up to the rider to understand what he can change and how much he can adapt.

  Valentino Rossi

  Style, Important, Rivals

  Source: www.cycleworld.com

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• Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely disrupt society. Second, we declare it is heretical, infidelic and contrary to the Bible. Third, we say it is really a matter of no importance either one way or the other. Fourth, we aver that we have always upheld it and believed it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Struggle, Liberty, Four

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• As Our Predecessors have many times repeated, let no man think that he may for any reason whatsoever join the Masonic sect, if he values his Catholic name and his eternal salvation as he ought to value them. Let no one be deceived by a pretense of honesty. It may seem to some that Freemasons demand nothing that is openly contrary to religion and morality; but, as the whole principle and object of the sect lies in what is vicious and criminal, to join with these men or in any way to help them cannot be lawful

  Pope Leo XIII

  Honesty, Lying, Men

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.76, TAN Books

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• There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end. Its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself

  James Nayler

  Revenge, Wrath, Evil

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• Homosexuality is not 'normal' On the contrary it is a challenge to the norm...Nature exists whether academics like it or not. And in nature, procreation is the single relentless rule. That is the norm. Our sexual bodies were designed for reproduction...No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous...homosexuality is an adaptation, not an inborn trait.

  Camille Paglia

  Gay, Ideas, Challenges

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• Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This is a perilous state of affairs. When individual thinkers and idealists talk of peace, as they have done since time immemorial, the effect is negligible. But when whole peoples become pacifistic it is a symptom of senility. Strong and unspent races are not pacifistic. To adopt such a position is to abandon the future, for the pacifist ideal is a terminal condition that is contrary to the basic facts of existence. As long as man continues to evolve, there will be wars.

  Oswald Spengler

  Strong, War, Men

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• Women are such contrary creatures when it comes to sex. You parade around like scantily clad vixens but blush when you're caught staring at the erections you cause.

  Katie MacAlister

  Sex, Causes, Vixens

  Katie Macalister (2005). “Blow Me Down”, p.99, Penguin

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• No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

  Samuel Johnson

  Doctrine, Censorship, Members

  "The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals".

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• Our "life education" has not necessarily taught us a satisfying way to live. We suffer from a vague sense that there must be something more, some deeper meaning. We must return to kindergarten and start to learn a way of life that is contrary to the way we approached things before-a way of life based on trust of our own inner truth. We can rediscover the child-like innocence and wisdom that knows that anything is possible.

  Shakti Gawain

  Education, Children, Taught Us

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations”, p.4, New World Library

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• Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

  Philip Sidney

  Fear, Past, Men

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.100

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• The recurrence of periods of depression and mass unemployment has discredited capitalism in the opinion of injudicious people. Yet these events are not the outcome of the operation of the free market. They are on the contrary the result of well-intentioned but ill-advised government interference with the market.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, People, Liberty

  Ludwig von Mises (2015). “Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism”, p.27, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary.

  Monique Wittig

  Sex, Oppression, Oppressed

  Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Order, Punishment, Divine Revelation

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• What must never be lost sight of is that a public functionary, in his capacity as functionary, produces absolutely nothing; that, on the contrary, he exists only on the products of the industrious class; and that he can consume nothing that has not been taken from the producers.

  Charles Dunoyer

  Philosophy, Taken, Class

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• Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and gives the whole show away. The seducer and the politician, who live in the dialectic and have a feeling and instinct for it, try their best to keep it hidden.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Giving, Feelings, Trying

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1988). “In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays”, p.59, Northwestern University Press

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• It might sound contrary to the wisdom of the world to suggest that one who is burdened with sorrow should give thanks to God. But those who set aside the bottle of bitterness and lift instead the goblet of gratitude can find a purifying drink of healing, peace, and understanding.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Gratitude, Healing, Giving

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