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This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a… — Laurent Fabius
The slight variations in extracting procedure cause many of the amygdalin (Vitamin B-17, Laetrile) molecules to change to a form unknown to nature(:) isomers...There are… — Ernst T. Krebs
We are asked now seriously to accept that in the last few years-contrary to all history, contrary to all intelligence-Saddam decided unilaterally to destroy those… — Tony Blair
We consider these settlements to be contrary to the Geneva Convention, that occupied territory should not be changed by establishment of permanent settlements by the… — Jimmy Carter
An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the very center of… — John Stott
Not surprisingly, the federal judiciary nearly always rules in favor of the federal government. Judicial review, contrary to the assurances of its advocates, has hardly… — Joseph Sobran
The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in… — Lytton Strachey
I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is… — Omar Sharif
The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the… — John Charles Polanyi
When the physicists ask us for the solution of a problem, it is not drudgery that they impose on us, on the contrary, it is… — Henri Poincare
Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the… — Hans Christian Andersen
Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable. — Madeleine M. Kunin
Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh, for the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against… — Paul the Apostle
So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if… — Robert Barclay
Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every tongue that mentions… — Henry Fielding
Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows,… — Hippocrates
The liberty of thinking and publishing whatsoever each one likes, without any hindrances, is not in itself an advantage over which society can wisely rejoice.… — Pope Leo XIII
God has granted me today a very particular fondness for requesting of Him that same virtue of ever choosing the worst and that which is… — Vincent de Paul
Even convicts, with whom I have spent some time, are not won over in any other way. Whenever I happened to speak sharply to them,… — Vincent de Paul
[I]t is the maxim of the saints that when a matter has been decided in the presence of God after many prayers and the seeking… — Vincent de Paul

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