Contrast Between Quotes
41 quotes by 40 authors
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In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.
— Maurice Baring
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A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the…
— Ayn Rand
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It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and…
— Albert Einstein
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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
— Agnes Repplier
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To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care for and who…
— Alfred Nobel
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It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast…
— Henry James
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There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the…
— Joseph Stalin
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It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work…
— Alice Hamilton
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A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.
— Raymond Williams
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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
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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
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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
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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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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…
— Jerry Bridges
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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…
— Mark Halperin
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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,…
— Penelope Hobhouse
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One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House of…
— Kenny Smith
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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…
— Jung Chang
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I think the thing that impressed me the most was the Lunar's sunrises and sunsets. These in particular bring out the stark nature of the…
— William Anders
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