"As a means of contrast with the sublime,……" — Victor Hugo

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• In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which… — Maurice Baring
• A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed… — Daniel J. Boorstin
• If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what… — Amy Carmichael
• Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
• In contrast to how a child belongs in the world, adult belonging is never as natural, innocent, or playful. Adult… — John O'Donohue
• A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may… — Alfred North Whitehead
• Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most… — Mark Twain
• The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and… — G. Stanley Hall
• The economic benefits of investing in children have been extensively documented. Investing fully in children today will ensure the well-being… — Carol Bellamy
• Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical… — Frances M. Young
• ... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable… — Philip Zimbardo
• The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites. — Carl Jung

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