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«Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.»
Author: Dr. Paul Tournier
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acceptance, accepting, complexes, contrary, handicapped, handicapping, handicaps, heredity, injustices, on the contrary, psychological, resignation, resignations, running away
«Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.»
Author: Elaine Dundy
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Actors and acting
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contrary, detract, detracting, detracts, on the contrary, text
«A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.»
Author: John J. Pershing
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Competence,
Leadership
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competent, contrary, demoralize, demoralized, demoralizing, efficient, incapable, on the contrary, troops
«Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.»
«Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.»
Author: Dag Hammarskjold
(Statesman)
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Destiny
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avoided, contrary, desired, Human history, implies, mystery
«By religion I mean a set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Religion
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authoritarian, beliefs, beyond, conduct, conducts, Contraries, contrary, dogmas, dominated by, dominating, emotional, evidence, held, inculcate, inculcated, intellectual, mean, methods, set, The Conduct of Life
«Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.»
«Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Faith
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contrary, exercise, reject, safest, summarily
«A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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caused, contrary, example, first cause, first principle, first principles, good example, imitate, influence, one-man, principles, republic, return, Return to, strive, virtues, wicked
«Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Contraries, contrary, Hear say, like thunder, stands, thundered, thundering, thunders, to the contrary