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• Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.

  Adam Duritz

  Fog, Doors, White

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• We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the world and its demands...Thus it is hard for us to understand the political relevance of friendship...But for the Greeks the essence of friendship consisted in discourse...The converse (in contrast to the intimate talk in which individuals speak about themselves), permeated though it may be by pleasure in the friend’s presence, is concerned with the common world.

  Hannah Arendt

  Heart, Essence, Political

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• I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less

  Meg Whitman

  Running, Business, Technology

  "CNBC's Larry Kudlow Speaks With California Gubernatorial Candidates Republican Meg Whitman & Democrat Jerry Brown Tonight on CNBC's 'The Kudlow Report'". www.cnbc.com. July 16, 2010.

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• The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. I am filled with wonder when I consider the immeasurable contrasts between the two lives which it connects. It was the third of March, 1887, three months before I was seven years old.

  Helen Keller

  Teacher, Years, Two

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.17, Om Books International

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• I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way.

  Elvis Costello

  Men, Records, Way

  "Elvis Costello: Interview And Music". Interview with Brian Wise, www.elviscostello.info. April 10, 2004.

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• Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Change, Work, People

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.314

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• For many of us, sadly, the spirit of Christmas is "hurry". And yet, eventually, the hour comes when the rushing ends and the race against the calendar mercifully comes to a close. It is only now perhaps that we truly recognize the spirit of Christmas. (...) With all its temporal confusion, it may just help us to see that by contrast, Christmas itself is eternal.

  Burton Hill

  Christmas, Rushing, Race

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• 'Cap and trade' generates special interests, lobbyists, and trading schemes, yielding non-productive millionaires, all at public expense. The public is fed up with such business. Tax with 100% dividend, in contrast, would spur our economy, while aiding the disadvantaged, the climate, and our national security.

  James Hansen

  Special, Spurs, Climate

  A letter to Obama by James and Anniek Hansen, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2009.

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• A person is quite different from a tree or rock or stream. By introducing the nude into my pictures, I started perceiving all the things I was photographing in new ways. In contrast or opposition to each other, things became much more significant and interesting, revealing many more qualities than I had ever dreamed of knowing and expressing. By using the nude, I stopped thinking in terms of objects.

  Wynn Bullock

  Photography, Unique, Thinking

  "Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning".

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• It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) -to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors.

  Enid Bagnold

  Love, Sex, Pain

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• And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One, freed from rage, from sorrow, and from longing, he has passed beyond birth and decay.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Freedom, Peaceful

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• The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities.

  Jordan Peterson

  Creativity, Creative, Normal

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• Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge.

  Walter Guido Vincenti

  Knowledge, Science, Engineering

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• From this point of view, to avoid your strengths and to focus on your weaknesses isn't a sign of diligent humility. It is almost irresponsible. By contrast the most responsible, the most challenging, and, in the sense of being true to yourself, the most honorable thing to do is face up to the strength potential inherent in your talents and then find ways to realize it.

  Donald O. Clifton

  Humility, Views, Focus

  Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton (2001). “Now, Discover Your Strengths”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• False self is an identity based on what you have, what you do, and what others think about you. In stark contrast to this is the true self in Christ, which is who we are before God and in God - Christ living in us, as Paul put it to the churches in Galatia

  Basil Pennington

  Christian, Thinking, Self

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• Mudslinging - In politics, anything bad the opponent says about our candidate; in contrast, when our candidate does this, it is called 'making a good point.

  Richard Turner

  Political, Doe, Opponents

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• I can just generally say that Iran is a very multilayered, controversial country. There are so many contrasts and controversies that question themselves within whole different layers. It's not an easy place to wrap up in one answer or one question. It's a very multicultural, multiethnic place.

  Jason Rezaian

  Country, Iran, Answers

  "From captivity to classroom". Interview with Christina Pazzanese, news.harvard.edu. September 12, 2016.

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• In competitive archery, risk assessment has minimal bearing on quality of performance, since the archer has so little choice over shot selection. By contrast, in a hunt, shots vary in quality according to how well selected they may be.

  Ernest Sosa

  Archer, Assessment, Choices

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts, and mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Character, Dark

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1084, Library of America

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• I love the dynamic contrast between the spontaneous shots and the more formal, pro-rock-star photos.

  Bruce Pavitt

  Stars, Rocks, Spontaneous

  "Experiencing Nirvana". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. February 12, 2014.

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• Beauty has never been an important topic in the writings of the major psychologists. In fact, for Jung, aesthetics is a weak, early stage of development. He follows the Germanic view that ethics is more important than aesthetics, and he draws a stark contrast between the two. Freud may have written about literature a bit, but an aesthetic sensitivity is not part of his psychology.

  James Hillman

  Writing, Views, Two

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I think the contrast between these two in the professional world of cinema mattered to me. One who has reached the ultimate point of being a star, who knows how to do everything very well, facing another person who would throughout the making of the film transfer his anxiety to both of us, to me and to Juliette, as to whether or not he would be capable of fulfilling his role. This in itself created a challenge that was actually very good for me, since I hadn't ever counterposed two such performers before, creating that challenge between someone who knows their part and someone who doesn't.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Stars, Thinking, Two

  Source: aaroncutler.tumblr.com

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• We reject creationism because there is no evidence to support it. By contrast, the notion that biology is at least partially the basis of gender is an empirically supportable, and even well-supported, proposition. The gender scholars reject it on ideological, not evidentiary, grounds.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Support, Biology, Gender

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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• The true contrast between science and religion is that science unites the world and makes it possible for people of widely differing backgrounds to work together and to cooperate. Religion, on the other hand, by its very claim to know “The Truth” through “revelation,” is inherently divisive and a creator of separatism and hostility.

  Hermann Bondi

  Hands, People, Religion

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• Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil. Therefore having and not having arise together. Difficult and easy complement each other. Long and short contrast each other. High and low rest upon each other. Voice and sound harmonize each other. Front and back follow one another.

  Laozi

  Difficult And Easy, Voice, Long

  Laozi, Gia-fu Feng, Jane English (1972). “Tao te ching”, Random House Inc

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