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• Not a single illegal immigrant should or need enter the United States, not one. Contrary to the common wisdom, the borders are easy to seal, and controlling entry is hardly totalitarian.

  Mark Helprin

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• Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company’s fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s could be easily replaced, if not by your average Joe, then by your average executive vice-president. But Jobs genuinely earned the label of superstar.

  James Surowiecki

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• Contrary to what President Obama said in his inaugural address, going on Medicare and food stamps does not strengthen us. Just ask people who are fourth-generation welfare recipients.

  Mark Skousen

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• Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people. On the contrary, the actor may simply be a person who’s more willing than others to reveal some truths about himself.

  Wallace Shawn

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• Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

  Augustine of Hippo

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• It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

  David Hume

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• I always do the contrary of what my coaches tell me.

  Bode Miller

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• It is true that men themselves made this world of nations… but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.

  Giambattista Vico

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• On the contrary, I tried on numerous occasions to convince the American president not to go to war. I did what was within my capabilities to avoid that happening.

  Silvio Berlusconi

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• On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration’s complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.

  Sidney Blumenthal

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• Extreme complication is contrary to art.

  Claude Debussy

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• You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath… and even into the 70s.

  Charlton Heston

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• To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

  Albert Camus

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• The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

  Adolf Loos

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• Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

  Albert Camus

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• 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.

  Blaise Pascal

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• When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

  Confucius

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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.

  Paul Tournier

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• Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.

  Giraldus Cambrensis

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• They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.

  Jack Cade

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