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runs counter

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My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit. David Guterson

The nature of creative thinking runs counter to the nature of dealing w/its output. Ability & system to do both is freedom. GTD. David Allen (author)

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity. Friedrich Nietzsche

My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. Joan Didion

Historicism runs counter to the specific capacity of the literary work to escape the limits of historical time, to allow for the cross-generational flourishing of tradition, and open the present to a multidimensional temporality. Russell Berman

In focusing in this section on Lowth and Berkeley, I am also deliberately trying to disinter a spirit within British tradition which runs counter to the myth of British identity to which it has nonetheless surrendered: that it is empiricist, philistine and basely pragmatic. John Milbank

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