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Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it. ↗

— Elaine Dundy

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich. ↗

— Mike Royko

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Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

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

— Dora Russell

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These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do. ↗

— Andy Serkis

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Reality shows that, contrary to other countries in southern Africa, we have no basis for a classical guerilla struggle. We have never had a hinterland, and we do not expect to. ↗

— Joe Slovo

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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism. ↗

— Alain Badiou

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