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I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in… — Barack Obama
Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them. This is our… — Blaise Pascal
All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part. — Julian of Norwich
If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question… — Baruch Spinoza
The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too… — Maimonides
The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a… — Leo Tolstoy
Contrary to the rumors you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my… — Barack Obama
I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great… — James Clerk Maxwell
Contrary to what most of us believe, happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen, and it results from doing… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock… — George Eliot
To worship God is to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like Himself. — Brother Lawrence
To worship God in truth is further to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like… — Brother Lawrence
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an… — Jean Baudrillard
Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages, and probably that… — Judith Lynne Hanna
Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean abjectness or timidity,… — Mahatma Gandhi
Love of others and love of ourselves are not alternatives. On the contrary, an attitude of love towards themselves will be found in all those… — Erich Fromm
Contrary to the legend, Darwin's finches do not appear to have inspired his earliest theoretical views on evolution, even after he finally became an evolutionist… — Frank Sulloway
I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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