“ Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. ”
- Ivan Illich- Copy
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“ The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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“ Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
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“ An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. ”
- Jose Ortega y Gasset- Copy
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“ Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level. ”
- Alexander Haig- Copy
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“ I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions. ”
- Michelle Shocked- Copy
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“ I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind — and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
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“ Sinners are made up of contradictions: contradictions to truth and reason, to God, to themselves, and to one another. ”
- Benjamin Whichcote- Copy
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“ Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. ”
- Annie Besant- Copy
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“ I think all great innovations are built on rejections. ”
- Louis Ferdinand Celine- Copy
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“ An "unemployed" existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. ”
- Jose Ortega y Gasset- Copy
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“ A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer — that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake… ”
- Andrea Dworkin- Copy
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“ We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America — as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
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“ What the fundamentalists are doing is a total negation of their own faith - encouraging and lionizing suicide bombers and killing women and children, hardly in keeping with the teachings of Prophet Mohammed. ”
- Alexander Haig- Copy
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“ There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics. ”
- Richard Livingstone- Copy
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