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• The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

  Voltaire

  Eye, Color, May

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.3307, Delphi Classics

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• Liberals say this over and over and over again to hide the actual history, which is why I go through the specifics on the big segregationists in the United States Senate, the ones who signed the Southern Manifesto and the ones who voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. There's a panoply of issues to consider. The first time they objected to the Federal government doing something was when it came to civil rights legislation. This is in stark contrast to the very few Republicans who voted against the '64 Civil Rights Act.

  Ann Coulter

  Southern, Civil Rights, Republican

  Source: aalbc.com

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• For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning.

  John Thorn

  Baseball, Winning, Months

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• So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

  Henry George

  Real, Luxury, Long

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. A true revolution of values will soon look on uneasily upon the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Compassion, Justice, Coins

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.119, Beacon Press

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• Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices.

  John Sununu

  Ideas, Giving, Perspective

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• You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Creativity, Night, Two

  City Limits, April 07, 1988.

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• A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence... defines what can and cannot be done to her.

  John Berger

  Men, Done, Capable

  "Ways of Seeing". Book by John Berger, 1972.

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• Western parents try to respect their children’s individuality, encouraging them to pursue their true passions, supporting their choices, and providing positive reinforcement and a nurturing environment. By contrast, the Chinese believe that the best way to protect their children is by preparing them for the future, letting them see what they’re capable of, and arming them with skills, work habits, and inner confidence that no one can ever take away.

  Amy Chua

  Children, Believe, Passion

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• I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Heart, Agony, Bitterness

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)”, p.246, Delphi Classics

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• I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with a blotched and swollen face, and red rims to my eyes.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Eye, Fiction, Red

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• If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience.

  David Lynch

  Strong, Thinking, Upset

  David Lynch, Richard A. Barney (2009). “David Lynch: Interviews”, p.136, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• God's capacity to forgive is greater than our capacity to sin; while our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. It's a message revealing the radical contrast between the sinful heart of mankind and the gracious heart of mankind's Creator.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Heart, Grace, Forgiving

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• Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Eye, Skins, Handwriting

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being”, p.16, Canongate Books

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• The brilliance of morning is in sharp contrast with the darkness of night" - Woman thou art loosed

  T. D. Jakes

  Art, Morning, Night

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• The floor of ice cream parlor bothered me. It was black-and-white checkboard tile, bigger than supermarket checkboard. If I looked only at a white square, I would be all right, but it was hard to ignore the black squares that surrounded the white ones. The contrast got under my skin. The floor meant yes, no, this, that, up, down, day, night -all the indecisions and opposites that were bad enough in life without having them spelled out for you on the floor.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Black And White, Night, Squares

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• Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Creative, Patterns

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If you divide Christians into denominations, agnostics and atheists come in third, behind Catholics and Baptists. That's interesting when you contrast it with the lack of influence of nonbelievers.

  Richard Dawkins

  Christian, Atheist, Interesting

  Interview with Chip Rowe, www.playboy.com. August 20, 2012.

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• To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Stupid, Opposites, Two

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• There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Writing, Want, Ifs

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• The economic benefits of investing in children have been extensively documented. Investing fully in children today will ensure the well-being and productivity of future generations for decades to come. By contrast, the physical, emotional and intellectual impairment that poverty inflicts on children canmean a lifetime of suffering and want - and a legacy of poverty for the next generation.

  Carol Bellamy

  Time, Children, Future

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• Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.

  David Lee Roth

  Real, Doors, Chinese

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• Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical supervision. Yet, despite this long history of use and the extraordinarily high numbers of social smokers, there are simply no credible reports to suggest that consuming marijuana has caused a single death. By contrast, aspirin, a commonly used, over-the-counter medicine, causes hundreds of deaths each year.

  Frances M. Young

  Weed, Marijuana, Medicine

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• ... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation of their fellows, I posit the "banality of heroism," which unfurls the banner of the heroic Everyman and Everywoman who heed the call to service to humanity when their time comes to act. When that bell rings, they will know that it rings for them. It sounds a call to uphold what is best in human nature that rises above the powerful pressures of Situation and System as the profound assertion of human dignity opposing evil.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Powerful, Hero, People

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• In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  College, Class, People

  Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf (2013). “Moving the Mountain: A New Vision of Islam in America”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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