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“While all societies make their own imaginaries (institutions, laws, traditions, beliefs and behaviors), autonomous societies are those that their members are aware of this fact, and explicitly self-institute (αυτο-νομούνται). In contrast, the members of heteronomous societies attribute their imaginaries to some extra-social authority (i.e. God, ancestors, historical necessity)”

Self Facts Law Belief Social Members Authority Behavior Tradition Institutions Historical Extras Attributes Ancestor Contrast Institute Autonomous

Author:Cornelius Castoriadis

“The differing opinions regarding the gospel are often categorized as different variations of the same truth, or coming at the same truth from different angles, or even emphasizing different aspects of the same truth. This fails to recognize that the different 'variations' are often altogether different gospels. The Reformed gospel is completely different from the Roman Catholic gospel; a faith-based gospel is in direct contradiction to a works-based gospel; a truly evangelical gospel stands in contrast to an ultracharismatic gospel.”

Different Opinion Failing Aspect Direct Catholic Contradiction Contrast Angle Variation Evangelical Roman Catholic Faith Based Different Angles

Author:Paul Washer

“I love all men and women. I am a lover of humanity, not a hater. … I have been immoral, drunk, high. I ran with the wicked people for 28 years and I have run with the Jesus people since and the contrast is astounding.”

People Men Years Has Beens Running Humanity Jesus Lovers Men And Women Drunk Ran Wicked Contrast Immoral

Author:Phil Robertson

“In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.”

Two University Visible Department Chemistry Professors Contrast Wisconsin Stanford Biochemistry Wisconsin Weather

Author:Paul D. Boyer

“In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.”

Stills Spirit Common Logic Common Sense Contrast Reasonableness

Book:The Importance of Living

Source: The Importance of Living

“Our world and our state have been transformed, but, in contrast, we as people have not been.”

People World Has Beens States Our World Transformed Contrast

Author:Ruth Ann Minner

“You cannot really have the world and hold on to it. It is all too temporary and the more you try to hold on to it, the more it actually holds you. By contrast, the more you hold on to the true and the good, the more you are free to really live.”

World Trying Temporary Contrast

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“Apple was very close to bankruptcy and to irrelevance [but] you learn a lot about life through death, and I learnt a lot about vital corporations by experiencing a non-vital corporation. You would have thought that, when what stands between you and bankruptcy is some money, your focus would be on making some money, but that was not [Steve Jobs’] preoccupation. His observation was that the products weren’t good enough and his resolve was, we need to make better products. That stood in stark contrast to the previous attempts to turn the company around.”

Needs Enough Would Be Jobs Turns Company Focus Products Observation Corporations Apples Resolve Good Enough Contrast Starks Bankruptcy Preoccupation Irrelevance

Author:Jonathan Ive

“The future is fastidious and punctual. It keeps perfect time and arrives everywhere on the dot. In contrast, its slacker brother the past has no use for clocks or appointments. It comes and goes as it pleases in our memory, camping out wherever the hell it damn well wants to in there. Untrustworthy, prone to exaggeration, biased- you wouldn't lend it ten cents, but it *sure* can be charming and seductive when it feels like it.”

“A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.”

Way Country Cities Fundamentals Contrast

Book:The Country and the City

Source: The Country and the City

“Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.”

Ends Contrast Chill Fever Flu

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Partly, the Russian system succeeds because, in contrast to the Western industrial economies, it makes full use of its manpower.”

Use Economy Succeed Western Contrast Manpower

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“We’ve all heard of Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’ five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. In contrast, I realized, happiness has four stages. To eke out the most happiness from an experience we must: anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.”

Memories Grief Five Four Heard Stage Acceptance I Realized Denial Contrast Recalls Drs Anticipate Bargaining Happy Memories Stages Of Grief

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce baby oil droplets or coal nuggets.”

Sex Tree Produce Baby Fishes Oil Metals Contrast Coal Sprouts Nuggets Droplets

Author:Jared Diamond

“No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of its own species.”

Humans Individual Animal Known Practice Groups Species Ritual Contrast Ceremony Starks Burial

Author:Theodosius Dobzhansky

“Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.”

World Wells Form Term Differences Doubt Contrast Hypothesis

Author:Paul Davies

“Politics draws lines between people; in contrast, Jesus' love cuts across those lines and dispenses grace. That does not mean, of course, that Christians should not involve themselves in politics. It simply means that as we do so we must not let the rules of power displace the command to love.”

People Should Mean Doe Christian Courses Jesus Lines Grace Cutting Draws Command Contrast Jesus Love

Author:Philip Yancey

“Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.”

Emotion Hollywood England Crisis Moved Contrast Worn Corny Starks Worn Out Counterfeit

Author:C. S. Forester

“When we sin, Satan tells us we are lost. In contrast, our Redeemer offers redemption to all—no matter what we have done wrong—even to you and to me.”

Matter Done Lost Sin Offers No Matter What Redemption Satan Contrast Redeemer

Author:C. Scott Grow

“When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe--we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy.”

Source: Course of the History of Modern Philosophy

“Every person in the world, including yourself, will encounter various trials throughout life. Satan seeks to defeat you by tempting you to trust your own wisdom, to live according to your self-centered feelings, and to gratify the desires of your flesh. In contrast, God's will is for you to be an overwhelming conqueror in all of these tests for His honor and glory.”

World Persons Self Feelings Desire Honor Glory Tests Including Defeat Various Flesh Trials Gods Will Satan Encounters Overwhelming Contrast Self Centered Conqueror Tempting

Author:John C. Broger

“Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system. School math typically focuses on learning procedures to solve highly stereotyped problems. Professional mathematicians think a certain way to solve real problems, problems that can arise from the everyday world, or from science, or from within mathematics itself. The key to success in school math is to learn to think inside-the-box. In contrast, a key feature of mathematical thinking is thinking outside-the-box - a valuable ability in today's world.”

“There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.”

Men Mean Ends Pleasure Increase Regard Contrast Means To An End

Author:Richard von Krafft-Ebing

“Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon – it is the very heart of painting. Repeated experiments with adjacent colors will show that any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.”

Heart Shows Influence Color Painting Experiments Curious Carrie Phenomenon Contrast Hue Simultaneous

Author:Josef Albers

“The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.”

People Interest Ability Economic Skills Spread Enterprise Contrast Incentives Free Enterprise Matching

Author:Arthur C. Brooks

“The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when one lives through the shock of contrast and difference.”

Way Reason Interest Differences Awareness Oneself Shock Contrast Vitality Exposing Interest In Life

Author:Edward T. Hall

“During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me. I had always owned them to be the Word of GOD . . . the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by GOD.”

Feels Made Stills Soul States Reading Church Effects Exercise Solitude Gains Careful Scripture Practicals Beloved Word Of God Contrast Ascendancy Conflicting Thoughts

Author:John Nelson Darby

“In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.”

World Way Suffering Christ Christianity Eternal Contrast Fellowship Eternal Life Worth Living Fellowship With God

Author:Kenneth Scott Latourette

“To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are production units, and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.”

Term Animal Honor Productions Obligation Traditional Farmers Factories Contrast Units

Author:Matthew Scully

“He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries at night of which Borges is the fabulist. He is no reader who has not heard, in his inward ear, the call of the hundreds of thousands, of the millions of volumes which stand in the stacks of the British Library asking to be read. For there is in each book a gamble against oblivion, a wager against silence, which can be won only when the book is opened again (but in contrast to man, the book can wait centuries for the hazard of resurrection.)”

“In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present day, Chinese Taoist thought always defended individual liberty and laissez-faire while attacking the systematic and coercive use of violence typical of government.”

“I'm always trying to get to a danger point in color, where color either becomes too sweet or it becomes too harsh, it becomes too noisy or too quiet, and at that point I still want the picture to be strong, forceful, and the carrier of everything that a painting has to have: contrast, drama, austerity.”

Want Trying Stills Strong Danger Color Painting Sweet Drama Quiet Contrast Harsh Always Trying Noisy Carrier Austerity

Author:Wolf Kahn

“But again and again, we should reflect back to the darkness of the cocoon. In order to inspire ourselves forward, we must look back to see the contrast with the place we came from. You see, we cannot reject the world of the cocoon - which out which we may create a new cocoon. When we see the suffering that occured in the old cocoon, that inspires us to go forward in our journey of warriorship. It is a journey that is unfolding within us.”

World Should Looks May Suffering Order Darkness Journey Inspire Comfort Zone Rejects Contrast Again And Again Comfort Zone Unfolding Cocoons

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature", what baloney. Markets - and the other great modernist cornucopian tools - are magnificent wealth generating machines, built ad-hoc, through trial and error, constantly fine-tuned and refined, tinkered, adjusted.”

Law Natural Wealth Fine Built Tools Machines Errors Libertarian Trials Ads Contrast Magnificent Laws Of Nature Unnatural Refined Trial And Error Baloney

Author: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. The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities - what we do with, and how we manage our time. The compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction - what we feel is important and how we lead our lives. In an effort to close the gap between the clock and the compass in our lives, many of us turn to the field of "time management."”

“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 they work than what they do, while for more complicated mechanisms, it is usually the other way around.”

Way Simple Attention Learning Easier Draws Complicated Programming Mechanism Contrast Von Neumann

Author: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 the more strongly because it is being written down. Here, we are touching the realm of written love. It is going out of fashion, but the benefits remain. There are still souls for whom love is the contact of two poetries, the fusion of two reveries.”

Stills Two Soul Dream Love Is Emotion Written Fashion Taste Benefits Contact Realms Touching Contrast Going Out Fusion Reverie

Author: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 silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema.”

Stories Lasts Language Sound England Silent Bounds Cinema Prose Contrast

Author: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 own soul so torn with doubt and terror!”

Men Soul Beautiful Memories My Own Doubt Spring Green Terror Contrast Torn April Sweetest Springtime

Book:A Study in Terror: Volume 1: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Revolutionary Stories of Fear and the Supernatural

Source: A Study in Terror: Volume 1: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Revolutionary Stories of Fear and the Supernatural

“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.”

Life Is Joy Study Sadness Empty Contrast Keep Moving Forward

Author:Stephen Covey

“What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.”

Intellectual England Slavery Contrast Superiority Flora Intellectual Superiority

Author: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 course, to the fear-and-laziness draws.”

May Beautiful Courses Games Results Fine Ought Draws Appreciate Chess Logical Contrast Laziness

Author:Bent Larsen

“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.”

Light Earth Dark Strength Shadow Stronger Contrast Encouraging

Book:The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

Source: The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

“Man is a historical being : The realisations of the powers of human individuals living at any one time takes the cooperation of many generations (or even societies) over a long period of time. By contrast with humankind, every individual animal can and does do what for the most part it might do, or what any other of its kind might or can do that lives at the same time.”

Men Humans Kind Long Doe Might Funny Individual Can Do Animal Generations Periods Historical Cooperation One Time Contrast Humankind Realisation Long Periods Of Time

Author: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 suffer in order to give birth to desire. But when you have suffered and you have given birth to desire, so what? You've got a desire. Turn your attention to the desire. Think about where you're going and never mind where you've been. Don't spend any more time justifying any of that stuff -- Abraham”

Thinking Giving Mind Desire Suffering Order Turns Given Stuff Attention Struggle Birth Higher More Time Contrast Abraham

Author: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 process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code. By contrast, computers double their speed and memories every 18 months. There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.”

“Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration.”

Needs Values Design Color Contrast Vibrations Interior Design Congestion Bright Colors

Author: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 rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.”

Years Done Faces Rich Fashion Color Duty Hair Fine Snow Christmas Warmth Contrast Frost Snowy Classic Christmas

Book:The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss

“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]”

Knows Joy Sorrow Gratitude Clarity Contrast

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Beautiful light is born of a contrast to darkness.”

Light Beautiful Born Darkness Gratitude Contrast Beautiful Light

Author:Ross Turnbull

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