#contra

I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively with the government and particularly the Congress. ↗

— Charles Vest

#been #believe #building #clearly #coalitions

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#consciences #contrary #existed #external #intolerable

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#description #discovery #extends #function #making

Contraception doesn't define a woman. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#define #woman

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. ↗

— Voltaire

#common #common sense #contrary #more #nothing

As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we're all one but continue to try to win. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#become #begins #continue #contradictions #find

First of all: no one in their right mind would sign an exclusive contract. ↗

— Rob Walton

#exclusive #first #first of all #mind #right

Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

#big #bless #built #comes #contract

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#basis #blessing #considered #contracting #ever

Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great Recession that followed. Today, by contrast, credit is too tight. Mortgage loans are particularly hard to get, creating a problem for the housing market and the broader economy. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#broader #bubble #calamity #contrast #creating