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You wouldn't immediately jump over the counter and scream, 'Liar,' to think that we would just not look into it is a bit naive. – Madeline Bernstein	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The rise of extreme religiosity that we are seeing in the Middle East, and even in Europe and the United States, is happening in Israel, too, and I don't see it as merely a counter-reaction to Arab hostility. – Tamar Hermann	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The number of rapes reported to us, often in harrowing detail, suggests that sexual violence is part of the government's counter-insurgency strategy, the scale of reported abuses points to the urgent need for an international investigation in both rebel- and government-controlled areas. – Daniel Bekele	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
A country's conscience sometimes has to be triggered by some inconvenience, as long as they're peaceful, I think they're necessary. When they turn violent then they're counter-productive. – The President	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The phone I'm talking to you on now was simply a mobile phone when I was walking around Manchester United football club in 1998 -- it is now used for so many different things, they have a counter-productive effect on a very natural process called our circadian rhythms, which has so many biological consequences in our bodies. – Nick Littlehales	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law. – Denis Diderot	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. – Edith Hamilton	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It's counter to common sense, but common sense is only based on a very small subset of the universe. – Ian J. Davenport	added by anonymous 14 years ago

You wouldn't immediately jump over the counter and scream, 'Liar,' to think that we would just not look into it is a bit naive.

– Madeline Bernstein

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The rise of extreme religiosity that we are seeing in the Middle East, and even in Europe and the United States, is happening in Israel, too, and I don't see it as merely a counter-reaction to Arab hostility.

– Tamar Hermann

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The number of rapes reported to us, often in harrowing detail, suggests that sexual violence is part of the government's counter-insurgency strategy, the scale of reported abuses points to the urgent need for an international investigation in both rebel- and government-controlled areas.

– Daniel Bekele

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

A country's conscience sometimes has to be triggered by some inconvenience, as long as they're peaceful, I think they're necessary. When they turn violent then they're counter-productive.

– The President

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The phone I'm talking to you on now was simply a mobile phone when I was walking around Manchester United football club in 1998 -- it is now used for so many different things, they have a counter-productive effect on a very natural process called our circadian rhythms, which has so many biological consequences in our bodies.

– Nick Littlehales

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

– Denis Diderot

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

– Edith Hamilton

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

– Henry David Thoreau

added by anonymous
13 years ago

It's counter to common sense, but common sense is only based on a very small subset of the universe.

– Ian J. Davenport

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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