Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.[Ian Fleming] Quote:In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.[C.S. Lewis] Definitions of: counterDefinition: One who counts, or reckons up; a calculator; a reckoner.Definition: A piece of metal, ivory, wood, or bone, used in reckoning, in keeping account of games, etc. Definition: Money; coin; -- used in contempt. Definition: A prison; either of two prisons formerly in London. Definition: A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations. Definition: Contrary; in opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise; -- used chiefly with run or go. Definition: In the wrong way; contrary to the right course; as, a hound that runs counter. Definition: At or against the front or face. Definition: The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, -- below and somewhat forward of the stern proper. Definition: Same as Contra. Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to counter tenor. Definition: The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck. Definition: The back leather or heel part of a boot. Definition: To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing. |
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