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410 Counter quotes by 359 unique authors

A church must be more deeply and practically committed to deeds of compassion and social justice than traditional liberal churches and more deeply and practically… — Timothy Keller
The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living. — W. Somerset Maugham
One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family,… — Scott Ritter
The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging from arcane theoretical… — David Deutsch
Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life is killed out;… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works,… — Victor Papanek
When a country is in harmony with the Tao, the factories make trucks and tractors. When a country goes counter to the Tao, warheads are… — Laozi
Terrorists hate Americans. Indians hate each other. A terrorist will blow up an airport. Indians like to work at the airport. That would be counter-productive. — Russell Peters
Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
It is often assumed that science starts from facts and eschews counter-factual theories. Nothing could be further from the truth. What is one of the… — Paul Feyerabend
Many of the Christian faith have said, well, that's okay, contraception is okay. It’s not okay. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm… — Rick Santorum
Las Vegas is Everymans cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three… — Alistair Cooke
The question we must ask ourselves as a culture is whether we want to embrace the change that must come, or resist it. Are we… — Howard Lyman
I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve… — Robert Browning
Innovation involves anticipation. It is having a broad base of knowledge on your subject and an ability to see where the end game is headed.… — Bill Walsh
A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten. — Denis Norden
But what counter-insurgency really comes down to is the protection of the capitalists back in America, their property and their privileges. U.S. national security, as… — Philip Agee
Generosity is revolutionary, counter-instinctual. Our survival instinct is to care only for ourselves and our loved ones. But we can transform our relationship to that… — Noah Levine
Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me… — Samuel Fuller
The Principle of Uncertainty fixed once for all the realisation that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very… — Jacob Bronowski
Having members of the Bush administration actually sit down and discuss counter terrorism with the very countries that support terrorists is absurd. — Frank Lautenberg
The President should spend his time going after the terrorists rather than sharing sensitive counter terrorism information with countries that sponsor terrorism. — Frank Lautenberg
All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary. — Fidel Castro
If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power. — Lionel Jospin

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