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"text": "1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, London: Andrew Crooke, Chapter 42 “Of Power Ecclesiasticall,” p. 270,\n[…] the Ministers of Christ in this world, have no Power by that title, to Punish any man for not Beleeving, or for Contradicting what they say;"
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"ref": "1959, Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers, New York: Ace Books, published 2006, page 97",
"text": "I spent the whole long hike back to camp thinking about that amazing letter. It didn’t sound in the least like anything he had ever said in class. Oh, I don’t mean it contradicted anything he had told us in class; it was just entirely different in tone.",
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"text": "Everything he says contradicts me."
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"ref": "1753, Samuel Richardson, The History of Sir Charles Grandison, London, Volume 5, Letter 17, p. 113",
"text": "[…] all these people having deservedly the reputation of good sense, penetration, and so-forth, I cannot contradict them with credit to myself.",
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"ref": "1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter 15, in The Voyage Out, New York: George H. Doran, published 1920, page 199",
"text": "“I always contradict my husband when he says that,” said Mrs. Thornbury sweetly. “You men! Where would you be if it weren’t for the women!”",
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"text": "1760, Laurence Sterne, The Sermons of Mr. Yorick, London: R. & J. Dodsley, Volume 1, Sermon 2, p. 32,\n[…] as he is going to a house dedicated to joy and mirth, it was fit he should divest himself of whatever was likely to contradict that intention, or be inconsistent with it."
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"ref": "1980, Anthony Burgess, chapter 60, in Earthly Powers, Penguin, published 1981, page 486",
"text": "My persona was mildly liked by television audiences. Its features were recognizable and caricaturable—the cigarette in its Dunhill holder wielded as gracefully as a Queen Anne fan, the Savile Row suitings whose conservative elegance was contradicted by opennecked silk shirts from Kuala Lumpur or by cream polo sweaters […]",
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"text": "1662, Margaret Cavendish, The Matrimonial Trouble, Act II, Scene 21 in Playes written by the thrice noble, illustrious and excellent princess, the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle, London: John Martyn et al., p. 435,\nLady Sprightly. What had you to do to contradict my commands?\nDoll Subtilty. They were not fit to be obey’d, wherefore they were forbid."
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"ref": ", New York 2001, p. 203",
"text": "[…] magic hath been publicly professed in former times, in Salamanca, Cracovia, and other places, though after censured by several universities, and now generally contradicted, though practised by some still […]."
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