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«I say it to thee again, and doubt never the contrary, that if it were the custom to put the little maidens to the school, and they were made to learn the sciences as they do to the men-children, that they should learn as perfectly, and they should be»
Author: Christine de Pisan
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contrary, custom, Maidens, sciences, The school, the sciences
«Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.»
Author: Frederic Bastiat
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Law and lawyers,
Liberty,
Life,
Mankind
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beforehand, caused, contrary, existed, first cause, in the first place, on the contrary
«Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.»
Author: Michael Korda
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assets, carefully, Contraries, contrary, hidden, imaginatively, on the contrary, study, walk, walk away
«Faith is not contrary to reason.»
«Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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Faith
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above, Contraries, contrary, indeed, senses, tells
«Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
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Miracles
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Contraries, contrary, Miracles
«Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
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Age,
Imagination
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contrary, exercise, mature, matured, matures, maturing
«Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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contrary, extreme, moderate, moderated, moderating, positions, succeeded
«No American newspaper will print anything contrary to its own interests»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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All American, American, Contraries, contrary, interests, newspaper, out of print, print, prints
«Just as eating contrary to the inclination is injurious to the health, so study without desire sports the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.»
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