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The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
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Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.
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Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
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Besides the healthcare bill being unconstitutional and a great expansion of federal government, I think if it does not respect people's individual religious views and makes groups or individuals do things that are contrary to their deeply held beliefs, there is going to be a visceral negative reaction.
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But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
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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 - those billionaire reports are a joke.
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Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.
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Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.
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Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.
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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.
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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
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Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.
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