"Ground not upon dreams; you know they are…" — Thomas Middleton

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• No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the… — Hannah Arendt
• But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place… — Karen Armstrong
• Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. — Saint Augustine
• Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path… — Irving Babbitt
• Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive… — Alain Badiou
• There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the… — Lord Acton
• I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men,… — Mikhail Bakunin
• It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary.… — Saint Basil
• Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that… — Frederic Bastiat
• The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary… — Pope Benedict XVI
• It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the… — Kate Adie
• In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary… — Ezra Taft Benson

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