#contra

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. ↗

— John Petit-Senn

#courage #higher #kite #like #raises

No one in their right mind would turn down the contracts I've been offered. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#contracts #down #i #mind #offered

When I'm not training day in and day out I love to go out and dance, even though it is potentially in my contract that I'm not allowed to do that. ↗

— Taylor Phinney

#contract #dance #day #even #go

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#cigarettes #contrast #culture #extra #i

The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#also #contrary #essential #general #grafted

What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#breadth #claims #commitment #contract #declaration

I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#based #cannot #communication #conscious #contrary

The oldest theory of contract is I think negative. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#i #i think #negative #oldest #theory

Newt has two transitions behind him. First he had to capture control of the House. He had to get the Republican budget through. He had to get the Contract With America through. He has done that. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#behind #budget #capture #contract #control

Woman's at best a contradiction still. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#contradiction #still #woman