#contrary

I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#aids #always #book #chicago #child

Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market. ↗

— Barack Obama

#ardent #believer #claims #contrary #critics

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#against #certainly #contrary #faith #see

To sum up, there is no evidence that a world without nuclear weapons would be a dangerous world. On the contrary, it would be a safer world, as I will show later. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#dangerous #evidence #i #later #nuclear

The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific understanding of evolution and, of course, to the fossil record, which shows the existence of non-human primates and other animals millions of years before there were any human beings at all. ↗

— Peter Singer

#because #before #beings #belief #better

See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#come #contrary #despite #even #fallacy

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#contrary #nature #reason #whatsoever

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#complacency #contrary #directly #hate #i

But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man. ↗

— Roger Daltrey

#contrary #hard #i #just #man

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets. ↗

— Michael Korda

#away #carefully #contrary #failure #hidden