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In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature", what… — David Brin
Our struggle to put first things first can be characterized by the contrast between two powerful tools that direct us: the clock and the compass.… — Stephen Covey
John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier to describe how… — Edsger Dijkstra
In contrast to a dream a reverie cannot be recounted. To be communicated, it must be written, written with emotion and taste, being relived all… — Gaston Bachelard
The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in… — Derek Jarman
It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing. — Stephen Covey
What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers. — Flora Tristan
A draw may be the beautiful and logical result of fine attacks and parries; and the public ought to appreciate such games, in contrast, of… — Bent Larsen
Man is a historical being : The realisations of the powers of human individuals living at any one time takes the cooperation of many generations… — John Rawls
It's not necessary for you to exacerbate your contrast with struggle in order to get it into a higher place. It is not necessary to… — Esther Hicks
"With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow… — Stephen Hawking
Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration. — Van Day Truex
Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his… — George Eliot
To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place. This is the same as to see the good and be grateful,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because... The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure… — Maimonides
He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. [for without sorrow how would you know what joy is? Contrast provides peceptive clarity] — Khalil Gibran
Beautiful light is born of a contrast to darkness... — Ross Turnbull
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness? You only truly, deeply appreciate and are grateful for… — John Steinbeck
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of awareness of darkness... as the contrast between what we have and how it could be… — Carl Jung
Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Wilderness can be appreciated only by contrast, and solitude understood only when we have been without it. We cannot separate ourselves from society, comradeship, sharing… — Sigurd F. Olson
To speak only of food inspections: the United States currently imports 80% of its seafood, 32% of its fruits and nuts, 13% of its vegetables,… — Marion Nestle
Food safety oversight is largely, but not exclusively, divided between two agencies, the FDA and the USDA. The USDA mostly oversees meat and poultry; the… — Marion Nestle
Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, they’re more likely… — Paul Tough

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