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• The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case.

  William Whewell

  Class, Elements, Facts

  William Whewell (1968). “Theory of Scientific Method”, p.155, Hackett Publishing

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• My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach.

  David Brainerd

  Blessed, Hands, Views

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.391

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• The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.

  Fred Barnes

  Giving Up, Winning, Media

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• People tend to think that because I'm a performer and I don't go to a regular high school that I haven't personally been affected by bullies. But it's actually quite the contrary.

  Ariana Grande

  School, Thinking, People

  "Even Performers Like Me Get Bullied" by Ariana Grande, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.

  Tadao Ando

  Beautiful, Travel, Thinking

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• I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.

  Carla Bruni

  Family Love, Feminist, Family Life

  "'My generation doesn't need feminism': Former French first lady Carla Bruni says a woman's place is in the home" By Steve Nolan, www.dailymail.co.uk. November 26, 2012.

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• For it is necessary in every practical science to proceed in a composite (i.e. deductive) manner. On the contrary in speculative science, it is necessary to proceed in an analytical manner by breaking down the complex into elementary principles.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Science, Scientific Method, Principles

  Saint Thomas Aquinas (1993). “Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics”, St. Augustine's Press

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• This new force, which was unknown until now, is common to organic and inorganic nature. I do not believe that this is a force entirely independent of the electrochemical affinities of matter; I believe, on the contrary, that it is only a new manifestation, but since we cannot see their connection and mutual dependence, it will be easier to designate it by a separate name. I will call this force catalytic force. Similarly, I will call the decomposition of bodies by this force catalysis, as one designates the decomposition of bodies by chemical affinity analysis.

  Jons Jacob Berzelius

  Believe, Independent, Science

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• On the one hand, man is a body, in the same way that this may be said of every other animal organism. On the other hand, man has a body. That is, man experiences himself as an entity that is not identical with his body, but that, on the contrary, has that body at its disposal. In other words, man's experience of himself always hovers in a balance between being and having a body, a balance that must be redressed again and again.

  Peter L. Berger

  Animal, Men, Hands

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• The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each individual tends to use the opportunity to become all that he or she can become. Separateness and diversity - the uniqueness of being "me" - are experienced

  Carl Rogers

  Life, Opportunity, Diversity

  Carl Ransom Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Just as a moral distinction is drawn between "those at risk" and "those posing a risk", health education routinely draws a distinction between the harm caused by external causes out of the individual's control and that caused by oneself. Lifestyle risk discourse overturns the notion that health hazards in postindustrial society are out of the individual's control. On the contrary, the dominant theme of lifestyle risk discourse is the responsibility of the individual to avoid health risks for the sake of his or her own health as well as the greater good of society.

  Deborah Lupton

  Responsibility, Health Education, Risk

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• Contrary to what you may think, an immoral act of any kind will only lower your self-esteem. Be true to yourselves, and your respect for yourself will increase. Know that yours is a divine birthright. Cultivate a good opinion of yourselves. Others may make cutting remarks concerning you. This is only a sign of their ignorance and not of your qualities. Walk with that dignity which is becoming a young woman who is a daughter of God.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Daughter, Self Esteem, Ignorance

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• Matter is a term contrary to soul. But nonsoul is its contradictory. Whatever is not soul is nonsoul.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Soul, Matter, Term

  Virchand Raghavji Gandhi (1993). “Religion and Philosophy of the Jainas”

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• The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Heart, Ideas, Enlightenment

  "Christian Missions: A Triangular Debate, Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York". The Monist: A Quarterly Magazine 5 (2), pp. 268-273, 1895.

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• Contrary to widespread belief, I do know something about science.

  Nick Kroll

  Belief, Knows

  "Q&A: Nick Kroll Tells You About His Feelings". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. January 23, 2013.

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• The idea that somebody who has done something horrible in a war is not willing to talk about it for 32 years is hardly a shocking idea. Quite the contrary.

  Bob Kerrey

  War, Years, Ideas

  "GMA: Transcript of Bob Kerrey Interview". Interview with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com.

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• It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  War, Struggle, Use

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• I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.

  Tibor Kalman

  Use, Isms

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• On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Dark, Past, Race

  NELSON A. MILES (1911). “SERVING THE REPUBLIC”

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• I'm a real relationship person - contrary to public perception. I'm either in one or I'm not.

  Sienna Miller

  Real, Perception, Persons

  "Sienna Miller says she's changed her ways and she's happy to be single now". www.mirror.co.uk. August 03, 2009.

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• I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.

  Michael Polanyi

  Communication, Feelings, Intellectual

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• Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Inspiring, Facts, Explanation

  Marilynne Robinson (2015). “Housekeeping”, p.142, Faber & Faber

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• I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively with the government and particularly the Congress.

  Charles M. Vest

  Believe, Government, Office

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• It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.

  George Voinovich

  Believe, Cutting, Simple

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• Let me be clear: Despite Roger Clemens' statements to the contrary, I never injected Roger Clemens, or anyone else, with lidocaine or B-12.

  Jim Lehrer

  Roger, Let Me, Clear

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