There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.
Douglas AdamsTags: past reality logic denial impossible contrary
You ain’t got no advantages when you’re small and contrary.”
“I ain’t puny,” I said hotly. “And I ain’t contrary.
Tags: contrary
I could have told, just looking at him, that that was the tone he would use asking a question. A tone that took it for granted any question he asked was going to be answered because he asked it. I don't like it and I know of no way anybody is ever going to make me like it.
Rex StoutSo that, upon the whole, we may conclude, that the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: and whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.
David HumeTags: experience reason superstition contrary irrational
It is contrary to the usual practice of professional men to give their opinions upon each other's work unless regularly called upon in the way of their profession.
John SmeatonTags: science opinions professional engineering contrary civility father-of-civil-engineering first-engineer
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