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The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal to accept exploitation… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature. — Rick Warren
How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and… — Dan Burton
People define gay cinema solely by content: if there are gay characters in it, it’s a gay film. . . . I think that’s really simplistic.… — Todd Haynes
A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong. — Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Perhaps one cannot, what is more one must not, understand what happened, because to understand [the Holocaust] is almost to justify...no normal human being will… — Primo Levi
McDonald's is a people business, and that smile on that counter girl's face when she takes your order is a vital part of our image. — Ray Kroc
Baby wipes are great for everything! For wiping babies' butts, as an eye-makeup remover, to wipe the counter, to clean my hands at the airport,… — Bethenny Frankel
Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of… — Thomas de Quincey
The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally, magic. It is… — H. L. Mencken
And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the… — Sibel Edmonds
I was also reminded of one of the unique charms of NYC in the summer: vast piles of rotting garbage piled on the sidewalks, with… — Andrew Sullivan
America is the promised land, because each generation bequeathed to its children a promise, a promise that they might not come to enjoy but which… — Joe Biden
The revolution is ... the blow dealt ... agains the counter force of tyranny, which has never entirely recovered from the blow, but which from… — Voltairine de Cleyre
Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept… — Richard Lewontin
I have gotten disturbed at some of the Democrats' anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people. I think it's very… — Jamie Dimon
Call it a character flaw -- when under attack, I counter attack. Always. — Richard Marcinko
A good counter needs no calculator. — Laozi
The Possibilities in racing tactics are almost unlimited, as in a game of chess, for every move there is a counter, for every attack there… — Franz Stampfl
Women are hungry for things of the Spirit, for truths that counter the slide of virtues all around them. Visiting teaching is a measure of… — Bonnie D. Parkin
That's the problem with relationships, It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way all the time.… — Alex Shakar
Purpose of counter-intelligence action is to disrupt and it is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge. If facts are present it aids in… — J. Edgar Hoover
My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in which I was privileged to… — Wayne Thiebaud
If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea. — Ben Casnocha
The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive. — Linus Torvalds

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