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• Contrast is the dramatist's method.

  Lord Dunsany

  Method

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• I'm interested in creating a space through color contrasts, rather than by simple shadows of light and dark.

  August Macke

  Dark, Simple, Light

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• Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.

  Marcel Proust

  Errors, Triumph, Force

  Marcel Proust (2012). “Swann's Way”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

  Victor Hugo

  Mean, Views, Sublime

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12464, Delphi Classics

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• You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that does not mean the filmmaker has to suffer in order to show the suffering. Stories should have the suffering, not the people.

  David Lynch

  Inspirational, Mean, Dark

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• In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow

  Richard Wagner

  Karma, Views, Reincarnation

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• doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct

  Kathryn Schulz

  Skills, Doubt, Instinct

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• Wal-Mart and what Wal-Mart does contrasts sharply with what the Green Party believes.

  Bill Vaughan

  Party, Believe, Doe

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• Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we are to appreciate harmony.

  Maria Montessori

  Lying, Appreciate, Harmony

  Maria Montessori, Gerald Lee Gutek (2004). “The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method”, p.179, Rowman & Littlefield

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• All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sleep, Aristocracy, Noble

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.230, Ravenio Books

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• I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change.

  Gianni Versace

  Change, Trying, Today

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.

  Heraclitus

  Evil, Disease, Hunger

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• Someone has to die in order that the rest of should value life more. It's contrast.

  Nicole Kidman

  Death, Order, Dying

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• What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

  John Steinbeck

  Summer, Winter, Weather

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• Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of the next are brushed by shadow of the dance. A wedding-party returns from church, and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and the sadness of life are the tragi-comedy of Shakespeare. Gladness and sighs brighten and dim the mirror he beholds.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Party, Grief, Sadness

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece - by thought, choice, courage, and determination.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Determination, Character, Gay

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• The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.

  Sigmund Freud

  Passion, Ego, Sanity

  Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

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• Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Humility, Men, Generosity

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.200

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• Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood.

  William Cowper

  Lines, May, Strange

  William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1836). “The Works of William Cowper: Life and works of Cowper, by R. Southey”, p.39

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• Rest is valuable only so far as it is a contrast. Pursued as an end, it becomes a most pitiable condition.

  David Swing

  Ends, Valuable, Conditions

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• Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Philosophy, Science, Philosopher

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• A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Book, Reading, Library

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• One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

  James D. Watson

  Success, Mother, Truth

  James D. Watson (2011). “The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory minimum sentences. In too many cases, mandatory minimum sentences are unwise and unjust.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Unjust, Accepting, Should

  "Rehnquist slams Congress over reducing sentencing discretion" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. January 1, 2004.

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• Images of burning Red Cross and UN buildings struck by US bombs contrasted with images of thousands of desperately poor Afghan women carrying sickly and starving children out of Afghanistan as they flee the might of the US military is tearing at international public confidence in our war against terrorism.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Children, Military, War

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