Best Contrast Thoughts
443 Contrast quotes by 388 unique authors
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Science, at its core, is simply a method of practical logic that tests hypotheses against experience. Scientism, by contrast, is the worldview and value system…
— John Michael Greer
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All systems are capitalist. It's just a matter of who owns and controls the capital -- ancient king, dictator, or private individual. We should properly…
— Ronald Reagan
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I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast
— Francis Ford Coppola
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Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.
— Josef Albers
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The closer you come to Jesus, the more faulty you will appear in your own eyes; for your vision will be clearer, and your imperfections…
— Ellen G. White
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It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling…
— Hjalmar Schacht
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But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science,…
— Bruno Bauer
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Those who aspire to the status of cultured individuals visit bookstores with trepidation, overwhelmed by the immensity of all they have not read. They buy…
— Gabriel Zaid
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The evil influence of Satan would destroy any hope we have in overcoming our mistakes. ... In contrast, Jesus reaches down to us to lift…
— James E. Faust
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All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.
— Andre Maurois
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Many people believe the names of In 'n Out and Steak 'n Shake perfectly describe the contrast in bedroom techniques between the coast and the…
— Roger Ebert
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Stories always have held conflicts and contrasts, highs and lows, life and death situations. And there can be much suffering in stories, but now we…
— David Lynch
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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…
— Alexander Rodchenko
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A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.
— Lloyd Banks
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Poetry restores language by breaking it, and I think that much contemporary writing restores fantasy, as a genre of writing in contrast to a genre…
— Michael Cisco
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Contrast of emotions is definitely something interesting that you like to do as an actor.
— Alfie Allen
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In contrast to the inorganic thereness of lifeless matter, living beings are not mere appearances. To be alive means to be possessed by an urge…
— Hannah
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Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and…
— Deepak Chopra
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Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each…
— Bob Ross
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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of Creation.' . . . We…
— Sigmund Freud
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I realize that in everything I was saying, that underneath my words was essentially, "why can't we be less judgemental and more like me." Which…
— Unknown Author
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Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated or neutral colors…
— Alan Cooper
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Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules in the form…
— Thomas Homer-Dixon
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In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be no plain girls against which to contrast…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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Leave an extrovert alone for two minutes and he will reach for his cell phone. In contrast, after an hour or two of being socially…
— Jonathan Rauch
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