“ If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries. ”
- Frank Gelett Burgess- Copy
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“ Both man and womankind belie their nature When they are not kind. ”
- Philip James Bailey- Copy
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“ The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon? ”
- Oswald C. Hoffman- Copy
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“ Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ To deny the possibility, nay, the actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God in various passages both of the Old and New Testament, and the thing itself is a Truth to which every nation in the world hath, in its turn, borne testimony, by either example seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits. ”
- Sir William Blackstone- Copy
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“ The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries. ”
- John Stuart Mill- Copy
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“ Those who invalidate reason, ought seriously to consider, whether they argue against reason, with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principle, that they are laboring to dethrone; but if they argue without reason, (which, in order to be consistent with themselves, they must do,) they are out of the reach of rational conviction, nor do they deserve a rational argument. ”
- Ethan Allen- Copy
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“ Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere. ”
- Benoit Mandelbrot- Copy
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“ That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye. ”
- Richard Armour- Copy
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“ Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. ”
- Sir Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another. ”
- Richard Francis Burton- Copy
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“ Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him. ”
- John Selden- Copy
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“ There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
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“ The new Republican leader in the Senate must do more now than merely disavow Sen. Lott's words. ”
- Tom Daschle- Copy
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“ What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self. ”
- William Law- Copy
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“ When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both. ”
- Al Franken- Copy
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“ If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing. ”
- Miguel de Unamuno- Copy
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