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on the contrary
«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
«To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime. To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't.»
Author: Primo Levi
(Author, Chemist, Writer)
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accuse, cowardly, defender, defenders, ennoblement, exaltation, gluttonous, kidney, kidneys, lascivious, lazy, mendacious, on the contrary, rhetoric, The Defenders
«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
«Sweet talks has the ability to attract one and all. On the contrary vitriolic speech keeps people away. »
«The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. And as soon as you see a finer morality, the grosser becomes relatively immoral.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Art,
Immortality,
Morality,
Profession and professionals
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finer, grosser, immoral, immorality, on the contrary, relatively
«The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else- we are the busiest people in the world.»
«The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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A level, degrades, on the contrary, The Standard
«The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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on the contrary
«There are people who when they meet a rival, no matter in what, at once shut their eyes to everything good in him and see only the bad. There are others who on the contrary try to discern in a lucky rival the qualities that have enabled him to succe»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
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discern, enabled, on the contrary, rival, rivaled
«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