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• It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

  Kate Adie

  Giving, Target, Protection

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• When I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I'm doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it's so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time.

  Ben Affleck

  Jobs, Thinking, Laughing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Hatred, Hated, Suitable

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1845). “Summa Theologica, (Complete)”, p.3052, Library of Alexandria

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• The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Philosopher, Moral

  Saint Thomas Aquinas (1951). “Philosophical Texts”, London : Oxford University Press

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• No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

  Hannah Arendt

  Punishment, Criminals, Firsts

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, p.238, Penguin

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• But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.

  Karen Armstrong

  Depressing, Fall, Despair

  Karen Armstrong (2004). “A Short History Of Myth”, p.2, Canongate Books

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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

  Humanity, Nihilism, Savages

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• I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Men, Diversity, Culture

  "God and the State" (1871)

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• It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does not generate death, nor is darkness the beginning of light, nor is disease the maker of health, but in the changes of conditions there are transitions from one condition to the contrary.

  Saint Basil

  Light, Evil, Darkness

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.28, CUA Press

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• The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love that is God. Anyone who begins to live and grow away from God, who lives away from what is good, is turning his life toward wrath.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Wrath, Way, Grows

  "God and the World. Believing and Living in Our Time". Book by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, June 11, 2002.

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• In the beginning, Adam — not Eve— was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's calling is in the home, not in the marketplace.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Mother, Home, Sweat

  "The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson".

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• I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.

  Conrad Black

  Anti Bullying, Mind, Opinion

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• Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

  William Blake

  Love, Hate, Energy

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'The Argument'

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• When I get on stage, my first goal is not to show my expertise, but on the contrary, to give a bit of happiness, of joy, of cheerfulness. I am firmly convinced that in order to sing well, you must love your neighbor and be passionate about life.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Order, Goal, Giving

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• Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle - and not just in the sense of money, by the way. The Beatles are untouchable. That’s just a joke.

  Bono

  Boys, Way, Untouchables

  "Bono, Facebook IPO: U2 Singer To Become The World’s Richest Musician (UPDATED)" by Crystal Bell, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2012.

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• Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Knowledge, Commodity, Increase

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Journey, Doctrine, Departure

  Joseph Brodsky, Cynthia L. Haven (2002). “Joseph Brodsky: Conversations”, p.99, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Truth, Honesty, Truth Is

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• As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.

  Julie Burchill

  Song, Men, Thinking

  "Do women really need life tips from gay men?". www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2008.

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• Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.

  George W. Bush

  War, Winning, Iraq

  Address to the Nation on the Threat of Iraq, delivered 7 October 2002, Cincinnati Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio

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• If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

  Samuel Butler

  Logic, Reason, Enough

  Samuel Butler (1970). “A critical and annotated edition of Samuel Butler's Erewhon”

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• To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Principles, Impossible

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.129, Vintage

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• Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

  Albert Camus

  Solitude, Violence, Working Conditions

  Albert Camus, Jean Grenier (2003). “Correspondence, 1932-1960”, p.195, U of Nebraska Press

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• I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

  Jimmy Carter

  Hate, Teaching, Smugness

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• Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.

  George Chapman

  Hatred, Too Much, Doe

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