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• Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a strong distortion of the objects, with a crude handling of matter. Moments altogether new, never seen before compositions whose boldness outstrips the imagination of painters Then the creation of those instants which do not exist, contrived by means of photomontage. The negative transmits altogether new stimuli to the sentient mind and eye.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Strong, Eye, Mean

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• Violence is a dark contrast to what so many of us still believe in -- love.

  Robi Ludwig

  Believe, Dark, Violence

  Robi Ludwig, Matt Birkbeck (2006). “'Till Death Do Us Part: Love, Marriage, and the Mind of the Killer Spouse”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Nature and society are so replete with startling contrasts that wit often consists in the mere statement and comparison of facts, as when Hume says that the ancient Muscovites wedded their wives with a whip instead of a ring.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Wife, Facts, Ancient

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.43

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• The 21 Arab states that could easily have absorbed the original 650,000 Palestinian refugees in 1948 refused to do so, even though their combined land mass was 700 times greater than that possessed by Israel. By contrast, the Jewish population of the new state was only 600,000, yet Israel willingly absorbed some 820,000 Jewish refugees from Europe.

  Randall Price

  Palestinian, Refugee

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• In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events.

  Georg Simmel

  Order, Mind, Events

  Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.410, Simon and Schuster

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• I combined smoky grey shadows with ultra heavy black liner and piled on extra lashes for a mysterious and sultry look. To contrast with the gritty texture on the eyes, I kept the girls skin soft and pretty and gave their lips a natural flush.

  Gucci Westman

  Chica, Ojo, Negro

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• Knowledge itself is a neutral tool that can be used for good or evil. Wisdom, in contrast, always directs us toward happiness. The task of education must be to stimulate and unleash the wisdom that lies dormant in the lives of all young people. This is not a forced process, like pressing something into a preformed mold, but rather drawing out the potential which exists within.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Lying, Drawing, People

  Daisaku Ikeda (2010). “Soka Education: For the Happiness of the Individual”, p.151, Middleway Press

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• The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys of the Euphrates, the so-called cradle of civilization, where plants were first grown for crops by settled communities, garden enclosures were also constructed. Gardens emphasized the contrast between two separate worlds: the outer one where nature remained awe-inspiringly in control and an inner artificially created sanctuary, a refuge for man and plants from the burning desert, where shade trees and cool canals refreshed the spirit and ensured growth.

  Penelope Hobhouse

  Naturaleza, Hombres, Jardín

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• Color is a major element in scale. A small room can have a larger look by the use of closely related values, hues, and intensity. A large room can be made to look smaller by marked contrasts of color and value, hue, and intensity. Value is one of the most important elements. Whether light or dark, little value contrast makes for unity, and sharper contrast makes for stronger punctuation.

  Van Day Truex

  Dark, Color, Small Rooms

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• If the kingdom of God is within us and that is a kingdom of justice, of peace, and of joy then whoever remains with these virtues is certainly in the kingdom of God. By contrast, all who deal in unrighteousness, in discord, and in death-bearing gloom have taken their stand in the kingdom of the devil, in hell and in lifelessness. It is by these tokens that the kingdom of God or of the devil is recognized.

  Juan Casiano

  Christian, Taken, Justice

  "Conferences".

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• No one has yet discovered or ever shall discover what God is in His nature and essence... we shall, in time to come, 'know as we are known' (I Cor 13:12). But for the present what reaches us is a scant emanation, as it were a small beam from a great light - which means that any one who 'knew' God or whose 'knowledge' of Him has been attested to in the Bible, has a manifestly more brilliant knowledge than others not equally illuminated. This superiority was reckoned knowledge in the full sense, not because it really was so, but by the contrast of relative strengths.

  Gregorio Nacianceno

  Christian, Mean, Light

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• It was Bill Clinton who once pithily captured the contrast between the two parties when it came to selecting a presidential standard-bearer: "Democrats want to fall in love; Republicans just fall in line."

  Mark Halperin

  Falling In Love, Party, Two

  Mark Halperin, John Heilemann (2013). “Double Down: Game Change 2012”, p.153, Penguin

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• The person who is living by grace sees this vast contrast between his own sins against God and the offenses of others against him. He forgives others because he himself has been so graciously forgiven. He realizes that, by receiving God’s forgiveness through Christ, he has forfeited the right to be offended when others hurt him.

  Jerry Bridges

  Hurt, Grace, Forgiving

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God’s Unfailing Love”, p.27, Tyndale House

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• The body learns through exaggeration and contrast

  Wendy Palmer

  Philosophy, Medicine, Soma

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• The distribution of wealth is even more unequal than that of income. ...The wealthiest 5% of American households held 54% of all wealth reported in the 1989 survey. Their share rose to 61% in 2010 and reached 63% in 2013. By contrast, the rest of those in the top half of the wealth distribution —families that in 2013 had a net worth between $81,000 and $1.9 million —held 43% of wealth in 1989 and only 36% in 2013.

  Janet Yellen

  Rose, Income, Half

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• Employing...nutrition and vitamin therapy...one of the nation's largest alcoholism treatment programs reports a 71% success rate. This contrasts with...(a) national...rate (of) 25% as reported by NIAAA.

  Irwin Stone

  Dark, Age, Vitamins

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• I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.

  Jung Chang

  Home, Past, Chinese

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• Debemos trabajar apasionada e infatigablemente para salvar el abismo entre nuestro progreso científico y nuestro progreso moral. Uno de los grandes problemas de la humanidad es que sufrimos una pobreza de espíritu que contrasta con nuestra abundancia científica y tecnológica. Cuanto más nos hemos enriquecido materialmente, más nos hemos empobrecido moral y espiritualmente.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Puentes, sufrimiento, progreso

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). ""En una sola prenda del destino": A Global Vision of Justice", p.19, Beacon Press

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• I think it's fair to say there is a demagogic path that Europeans, South Americans, Asians have pursued, and we know where that leads. It uses xenophobia, it uses paranoia, it uses prejudice, it uses nationalism to really stir people up and to, you know, begin an us-versus-them contrast, which is dangerous and is not something we've had in our politics at a presidential level in America.

  Hillary Clinton

  Xenophobia, Thinking, America

  Interview With Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. April 6, 2016.

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• As with sound, images are subjective. You and I may not see the same color red as red, but we will probably agree that the image on the screen is a digital image or film image, based on contrast, bit depth, and refresh rate.

  John Dykstra

  Color, Digital, Subjectivity

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• Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Humanity, Doe, Needs

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• Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Truth, Moving, Imagination

  Emanuel Lasker (1965). “Common Sense in Chess”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• Science is like society and trade, in resting at bottom upon a basis of faith. There are some things here, too, that we can not prove, otherwise there would be nothing we can prove. Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end. It is a mistake to contrast religion and science in this respect, and to think of religion as taking everything for granted, and science as doing only clean work, and having all the loose ends gathered up and tucked in. We never reach the roots of things in science more than in religion.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Error, Ciencia, Pensamiento

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• Por el contrario, los canales de la "vieja Europa" mostraban películas de reporteros que se habían empotrado en el extremo equivocado del bombardeo de Bagdad y Basora. Estas películas mostraban los hogares destrozados, los civiles muertos y afligidos y el caos de infraestructuras que nuestras fuerzas armadas están creando a diario. Si es evidente que esas imágenes (ninguna de las cuales lleva el logotipo de Al Yazira) existen, ¿por qué los medios de comunicación occidentales las ignoran o, cuando se enfrentan a ellas, afirman que son propaganda iraquí?

  David Walker

  Home, Grieving, Usa

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• In a noted 1943 Harvard study, there were no cases of toxemia, congenital anomalies, or neonatal deaths among a group of well-fed woman. In contrast two~thirds of the children born to women who were on poor prenatal diets had congenital abnormalities, dies, or (had) neurological dysfunction. and 44% of the mothers had developed toxemia.

  Tom Brewer

  Mother, Children, Dark

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