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On the contrary if you feel that you have all the time in the world to improve the standard of your life (as different from living standard!) or to help the needy and have all the money and possessions to take care of your essential bodily needs, then you will be happy all the time
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“…who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the
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Having said this, never say anything to the contrary
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On the contrary, when I am alone I feel complete! c) I am also too perceptive: I can see a man's fault within ten minutes – the same fault another woman would see in two years
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Naturally, I don't question Louise's good intentions; on the contrary, she is the only friend of mine who supports me in deed
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On the contrary, it is crystal clear to me that Evil prevails everywhere
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It has nothing to do with intelligence - on the contrary, it is much more manifest in persons of mean or low intelligence, and it is thanks to cunning that the mediocre often supplant the excellent
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On the contrary, he looks angry and annoyed, as if he were jealous! Although he is only seven, he often shows such malice and arrogance which is rare even in adults
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What's going on? The sonic war against me is getting more and more unbearable day by day and I just can't stand it any more! For some strange reason, I am surrounded by all kinds of noise pollution: Every morning, at 7:30 am, my father gets out to the yard and keeps himself busy with meaningless tinkering and hammering at pieces of wood or metal for hours! When I return from work at 4:00 in the afternoon and lie in bed so as to have a brief nap, dad goes upstairs, to Alice's half-built penthouse, and starts hammering at stuff again till 5:30 that I leave for the gym! He doesn't really repair anything, he just enjoys the noise! The yard and the penthouse are full of rusty tools, old dilapidated furniture and all kinds of junk dad finds on the road and carries home! I often complain about the noise and the piggery but he never listens; on the contrary, he swears like a trooper!
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Antonia injected you with a vial of nanomaterial she thought would kill you, but on the contrary, it has switched something within you that gives us all a chance
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The voice that would nudge us to take or to do or to act in a manner that is contrary to the way of God is this very presence
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It is so different and contrary to the world
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When He calls upon us to perform His will, it might be entirely contrary to what this world thinks is peaceful or gentle or any of these other fruits of the Spirit
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Hard work and stress leave me very contrary, what about you?
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I think longingly of the afternoon spent on the boat, sitting in the sunshine laughing with these two men … one now looking so serious and the other bloodstained and in pain, despite his assurances to the contrary
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Sons have this absurd idea that their mothers are somehow incapable of looking after themselves even if the evidence all points to the contrary
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‘On the contrary, Katie, I understand all too well, and I would be very grateful if you would please not take that tone of voice with me
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Contrary to what some in the crew thought, Kelvin did not continuously immerse himself in the view of space as seen from the ship
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"On the contrary, in fact
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“We will all die if the captain of this ship starts making decisions based on information that is contrary to the laws of physics
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You might find that the majority of Jade City citizens wishes are contrary to yours
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Quite the contrary, he satisfied her so well that she was sated with just once a week
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Contrary to popular belief, members of The Acheronian Star
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were both standing - this development (so contrary to their
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The wages of the labour, and the profits of the stock employed in bringing such commodities to market, on the contrary, are seldom out of their natural proportion to those of the other employments of labour and stock in their neighbourhood
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Such combinations, however, are frequently resisted by a contrary defensive combination of the workmen, who sometimes, too, without any provocation of this kind, combine, of their own accord, to raise tile price of their labour
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The hands, on the contrary, would, in this case, naturally multiply beyond their employment
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The price of labour, on the contrary, is dearer in England than in Scotland
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Workmen, on the contrary, when they are liberally paid by the piece, are very apt to overwork themselves, and to ruin their health and constitution in a few years
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Don’t be afraid to challenge ideas that seem to be contrary to
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The contrary of this happens in a year of sudden and extraordinary scarcity
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The plenty of a cheap year, on the contrary, by increasing the demand, tends to raise the price of labour, as the cheapness of provisions tends to lower it
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A mason or bricklayer, on the contrary, can work neither in hard frost
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In great towns, on the contrary, trade can be extended as stock increases, and
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Those, on the contrary, for
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In a decaying manufacture, on the contrary, many
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"On the contrary," Nidon replied, "If they were able to take slaves they would have taken the whole world centuries ago
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Quite the contrary, if they existed they would have been infected with the Instinct for centuries
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interrupted by innumerable accidents, and, in every respect, contrary to the order of nature and
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’ Contrary to his assertion,
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"Unfortunately he has yet to learn that the world is built on chaos, and that his quest for order is contrary to the nature of reality
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Gold, on the contrary, is almost always found virgin
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On the contrary, it is generally increased by it
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Contrary to what Geoff had said, things did not seem better in the morning
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In 1695, on the contrary, the value of the silver coin was not kept up by the gold coin; a guinea then commonly exchanging for thirty shillings of the worn and clipt silver
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below its standard value, In 1695, on the contrary, it had been supposed to be near five-and-twenty per cent
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The rise, indeed, supposing there has been any, has hitherto been so very small, that after all that has been said, it may, perhaps, appear to many people uncertain, not only whether this event has actually taken place, but whether the contrary may not have taken place, or whether the value of silver may not still continue to fall in the European market
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philosophers want to think – or, on the contrary, that he
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They are persons that, on the contrary, are particularly
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That of calves skins, on the contrary, is greatly below it
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the contrary! Just because of his faith, he revolts
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‘On the contrary, it’s me who should be grateful to
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On the contrary,
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The price of superfine cloth, I have been assured, on the contrary, has, within these five-and-twenty or thirty years, risen somewhat in proportion to its quality, owing, it was said, to a considerable rise in the price of the material, which consists altogether of Spanish wool
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The contrary circumstances, the neglect of cultivation and improvement, the fall in the real price of any part of the rude produce of land, the rise in the real price of manufactures from the decay of manufacturing art and industry, the declension of the real wealth of the society, all tend, on the other hand, to lower the real rent of land, to reduce the real wealth of the landlord, to diminish his power of purchasing either the labour, or the produce of the labour, of other people
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On the contrary, it is naturally low in rich, and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin
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On the contrary, it
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On the contrary, in order to achieve control over your weight, you need to integrate
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technology; on the contrary
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I think the contrary: a party that
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On the contrary, it hampered them, because of
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Though I hate lying and avoid it because it is against my nature, I would act contrary to my basic principles, morality and normal behavior
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Its agriculture, manufactures, and trade, on the contrary, the annual produce of its land and labour, have evidently been augmented
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opinions; on the contrary
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contrary, he wanted to make her more
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If, on the contrary, the sum of the repayments from certain other customers, falls commonly very much short of the advances which it makes to them, it cannot with any safety continue to deal with such customers, at least if they continue to deal with it in this manner
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On The Contrary! Of you have a
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On the contrary, their
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On the contrary, the whole expense of this borrowing, of employing agents to look out for people who had money to lend, of negotiating with those people, and of drawing the proper bond or assignment, must have fallen upon them, and have been so much clear loss upon the balance of their accounts
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But though this operation had proved not only practicable, but profitable to the bank, as a mercantile company; yet the country could have derived no benefit front it, but, on the contrary, must have suffered a very
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The sober and frugal debtors of private persons, on the contrary, would be more likely to employ the money borrowed in sober undertakings which were proportioned to their capitals, and which, though they might have less of the grand and the marvellous, would have more of the solid and the profitable ; which would repay with a large profit whatever had been laid out upon them, and which would thus afford a fund capable of maintaining a much greater quantity of labour than that which had been employed about them
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not covers you; on the contrary, you stand
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claim contrary to this, but when questioned in more detail it soon proves
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That between the dealers and the consumers, on the contrary, as it is generally carried on by retail, frequently requires but very small ones, a shilling, or even a halfpenny, being often sufficient
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The labour of a menial servant, on the contrary, adds to the value of nothing
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The labour of the menial servant, on the contrary, does not fix or realize itself in any particular subject or vendible commodity
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The quantity of money, on the contrary, must in every country naturally increase as the value of the annual produce increases
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Were two men of equal fortune to spend their revenue, the one chiefly in the one way, the other in the other, the magnificence of the person whose expense had been chiefly in durable commodities, would be continually increasing, every day's expense contributing something to support and heighten the effect of that of the following day ; that of the other, on the contrary, would be no greater at the end of the period than at the beginning
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To borrow or to lend for such a purpose, therefore, is, in all cases, where gross usury is out of the question, contrary to the interest of both parties; and though it no doubt happens sometimes, that people do both the one and the other, yet, from the regard that all men have for their own interest, we may be assured, that it cannot happen so very frequently as we are sometimes apt to imagine
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his thought, but on the contrary, to hide it with
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By altering the rate, on the contrary, the proportion between those two values is necessarily altered
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Any increase in the quantity of commodities annually circulated within the country, while that of the money which circulated them remained the same, would, on the contrary, produce many other important effects, besides that of raising the value of the money
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On the contrary, it is – maybe
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Where the legal rate of interest, on the contrary, is fixed but a very little above the lowest market rate, sober people are universally preferred, as borrowers, to prodigals and projectors
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On the contrary, if the advantages should much more than compensate the difference, everybody would
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contrary, I consider the results as positive, with
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It can never hurt either the consumer or the producer ; on the contrary, it must tend to make the retailers both sell cheaper and buy dearer, than if the whole trade was monopolized by one or two persons
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The capital of a wholesale merchant, on the contrary, seems to have no fixed or necessary residence anywhere, but may wander about from place to place, according as it can either buy cheap or sell dear
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The capital of the landlord, on the contrary, which is fixed in the improvement of his land, seems to be as well secured as the nature of human affairs can admit of
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In countries, on the contrary, where there is either no uncultivated land, or none that can be had upon easy terms, every artificer who has acquired more stock than he can employ in the occasional jobs of the neighbourhood, endeavours to prepare work for more distant sale
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In every other respect, nothing can be more contrary to the real interest of a numerous family, than a right which, in order to enrich one, beggars all the rest of the children
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, on the contrary, the whole work is done by slaves, and in our tobacco colonies a very great part of it
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A slave, on the contrary, who can acquire nothing but his maintenance, consults his own ease, by making the land produce as little as possible over and above that maintenance
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After the fall of the Roman empire, on the contrary, the proprietors of land seem generally to have lived in fortified castles on their own estates, and in the midst of their own tenants and dependants
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On the contrary, when they are secure of enjoying the fruits of their industry, they naturally exert it to better their condition, and to acquire not only the necessaries, but the conveniencies and elegancies of life
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In countries which have little commerce, on the contrary, such as Wales, or the Highlands of Scotland, they are very common
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Among simple nations, on the contrary, they frequently do, without any regulations of law ; for among nations of shepherds, such as the Tartars and Arabs, the consumable nature of their property necessarily renders all such regulations impossible
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In North America, on the contrary, fifty or sixty pounds is often found a sufficient stock to begin a plantation with