"Dissonance is the truth about harmony." — Theodor Adorno

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• I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a… — Madeleine Albright
• Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a… — George MacDonald
• One who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of one color with another, their contrasts and dissonances, is… — Sonia Delaunay
• True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal… — Mark Thomas
• No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade,… — Alan Bullock
• The position of the planetary bodies at the moment of birth is a musical score done in planetary symbols of… — Corinne Heline
• Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of… — Jimmy Webb
• I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand… — Eric Sevareid
• Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body. — Georges Rodenbach
• Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of… — Igor Stravinsky
• As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal… — Ruth St. Denis

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