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There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. ↗

— William James

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Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

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The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast. ↗

— Clarence Budington Kelland

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Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary. ↗

— Dora Russell

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Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed. ↗

— Dora Russell

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Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

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I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory. ↗

— George Saunders

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I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five. ↗

— Dinah Sheridan

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In contrast to what most prosecutors do, we try to treat all individuals with complete fairness. We do not go out and hold press conferences and the like. ↗

— Kenneth Starr

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