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Avoid contradicting in general, especially people you love. -- Maurice Baring
I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop -- Samuel Johnson
A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false. -- P.D. Ouspensky
I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself. -- Tom Stoppard
Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression. -- Jean Paul
I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation. -- Tom Stoppard
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them. -- Benjamin Franklin
However, he also trusted me to make my own decisions. Contradicting me or telling me what to do wasn't in his nature - even though he secretly may have wanted to. -- Richelle Mead
The Church in the Philippines is called to acknowledge and combat the causes of the deeply rooted inequality and injustice which mar the face of Filipino society, plainly contradicting the teaching of Christ. -- Pope Francis
Most of us are in touch with our intuition whether we know it or not, but we're usually in the habit of doubting or contradicting it so automatically that we don't even know it has spoken -- Shakti Gawain
The centre of the universe and only rotates on its axis without going from east to west, is a very dangerous attitude and one calculated not only to arouse all Scholastic philosophers and theologians but also to injure our holy faith by contradicting the Scriptures. -- Robert Bellarmine
Your natural instinct, from your broadest Nonphysical perspective, is to know your power. Fear is a vibration when you feel powerless. Your natural instinctual Nonphysical vibration is to know your worthiness, know your rightness, know your value. And the feeling of fear is always when you are contradicting that thought. -- Esther Hicks
Dear Lord, make me a better parent. Teach me to understand my children, to listen patiently to what they have to say and to answer all their questions kindly. Keep me from interrupting them, talking back to them, and contradicting them. Make me as courteous to them as I would have them to be to me. -- Gary Myers
Carnal reason is an enemy to faith: it is ever crossing and contradicting it. It will never be well with thee, Christian, so long as thou art swayed by carnal reason, and you rely more upon thy five senses, than upon the four Evangelists. As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing. -- Thomas Brooks
Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive existences, whilst the historian of man is constantly at fault as to dates and even the sequence of events, to say nothing of the contradicting statements which he is forced to reconcile. -- Roderick Murchison
God is angry with man. Unless we believe and repent we shall all be damned. It is impossible, indeed, for its advocates even to say this without instantly contradicting themselves. Their doctrine frightens them. They explain in various ways that a great many people will be saved without believing, and that eternal damnation is not eternal nor damnation. -- Leslie Stephen
The fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening. We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication. We could only fear chaos if we imagined that it was unknown to us, but in fact we know it very well. -- Germaine Greer
Truths may clash without contradicting each other. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We are lying to ourselves when we're not contradicting ourselves. -- Marty Rubin
We are being dishonest with ourselves when we're not contradicting ourselves. -- Marty Rubin
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It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten. -- Charles Baudelaire
We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication. -- Germaine Greer
But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story. -- Megan Fox
Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action. -- John Stuart Mill
The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be there. -- Marya Hornbacher
If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply; I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong. -- Luc de Clapiers
One great thinker said one thing, another said another, and while the two thoughts are contradicting, the one that backs my argument at the moment is the superior statement. -- Jarod Kintz
Twitter is about creating whatever persona you want to create and either sticking with it or changing it or evolving it or contradicting it, and I've done all that stuff. -- Michael Ian Black
The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being obsessive, being reckless - for these, suddenly, I am being praised. -- Selima Hill
man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity -- Paul Tillich
If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding. -- Blaise Pascal
When Jesus calls his disciples 'brothers' and 'friends', he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person. -- David Kirk
Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say that philosophy has been long enough an asylum for enthusiasts. -- George Santayana
The challenge - and much of the fun - of writing in an established future history lies in incorporating new knowledge while remaining true to what has gone before. Expanding and enriching, not contradicting. -- Edward M. Lerner

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