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«Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Patience
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active, concentrated, contrary, on the contrary, passive
«There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.»
Author: Enrico Fermi
(Physicist)
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confirming, confirms, contrary, discovery, hypotheses, hypothesis, outcomes
«Religious matters are to be separated from the jurisdiction of the state not because they are beneath the interests of the state, but, quite to the contrary, because they are too high and holy and thus are beyond the competence of the state»
Author: Isaac Backus
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beneath, competence, contrary, holy, interests, jurisdiction, separated, The State, thus, to the contrary
«There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.»
Author: Lord Acton
(Editor, Professor, Thinker)
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attacked, contrary, discussion, in front, narrow-mindedness, narrow, shaken
«The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can»
Author: Paul Kurtz
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after death, contrary, creatively, eating, here and now, mysterious, on the contrary, realm, succulent, The Meaning of Life, tree of life
«Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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blinds, Contraries, contrary, enhances, enhancing, falsehood, light, object, objected, on the contrary, twilight
«The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
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contrary, dialect, dialects, images, languages, languages of, other than, sensations, The Dream, to that, various, waking
«To abandon oneself to principles is really to die -- and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.»
«The flames kindled on the 4 of July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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consume, contrary, despotism, engines, extinguished, extinguishes, extinguishing, feeble, flames, globe, globes, Globe and, July, July 4, kindled, on the contrary, spread, spread over, The Flames, The Globe