#contra

A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter. ↗

— William Falconer

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This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#conditions #conflict #contrary #define #did

In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one. ↗

— Leon Kass

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It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#armaments #back #building #competing #contrary

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#bore #bores #contradict #great #himself

When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put on salary, which I think was like a hundred dollars a week, a piece, five hundred dollars for all five of us. ↗

— Ben E. King

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And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics. ↗

— David Korten

#basic principles #comes #conclusion #contrary #control

Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed. ↗

— David Korten

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Once I got a record contract, and I took my songs which weren't quite finished, or maybe they were a good idea, maybe they weren't. I took them into the studio and developed them. They came to life and they evolved... and they're great. ↗

— Chantal Kreviazuk

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I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted. ↗

— Alan Turing

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