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“I combined smoky grey shadows with ultra heavy black liner and piled on extra lashes for a mysterious and sultry look. To contrast with the gritty texture on the eyes, I kept the girls skin soft and pretty and gave their lips a natural flush.”

Eye Girl Black Natural Shadow Skins Mysterious Extras Contrast

Author:Gucci Westman

“When you’re living by default, you’re automatically reacting to life in habitual ways, many of which may be limiting you and your life. In contrast, living deliberately means making more conscious and constructive life choices. When you’re living deliberately, you’re living from a position of responsibility; you’re making choices with greater awareness. You’re taken yourself off autopilot, so you’re better prepared to align your actions with the results you want to achieve.”

“In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me.”

Theatre Attractive Contrast

Author:Judi Dench

“The body learns through exaggeration and contrast”

Philosophy Body Medicine Senses Contrast Exaggeration Soma

Author:Wendy Palmer

“In contrast with the law, which imposed giving as a divine requirement, Christian giving is voluntary, and a test of sincerity and love.”

Giving Christian Law Divine Tests And Love Sincerity Contrast Requirements

Author:C. I. Scofield

“The distribution of wealth is even more unequal than that of income. ...The wealthiest 5% of American households held 54% of all wealth reported in the 1989 survey. Their share rose to 61% in 2010 and reached 63% in 2013. By contrast, the rest of those in the top half of the wealth distribution families that in 2013 had a net worth between $81,000 and $1.9 million held 43% of wealth in 1989 and only 36% in 2013.”

Wealth Half Millions Share Rose Income Inequality Contrast Household Distribution Surveys Net Worth Distribution Of Wealth Wealth Inequality

Author:Janet Yellen

“The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of gnosis; but in academia there is virtually nothing but noetic minds to be found, and the very idea of gnosis is alien and untranslatable, not to mention discreditable.”

Mind Ideas Found Education Forever Color Approach Intellect Aliens Contrast Vigor Academia Gnosis

Author:Kenny Smith

“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 Intellect and its Hegelian/Bergsonian contrast between rigidified "intellect" and always-growing "intelligence." This fundamentally Hegelian distinction, needless to say, cuts to the quick of the contrast between Platonic and Aristotelian forms of philosophy.”

Long Hard Philosophy Form House Education Cutting Growing Highest Ideals Appreciate Tasks Intellect Distinction Contrast Implications Pondering Academia Platonic

Author:Kenny Smith

“Employing...nutrition and vitamin therapy...one of the nation's largest alcoholism treatment programs reports a 71% success rate. This contrasts with...(a) national...rate (of) 25% as reported by NIAAA.”

Age Nations Dark Program Rate Medical Therapy Reports Treatment Contrast Nutrition Alcoholism Dark Ages Vitamins Employing

Author:Irwin Stone

“In a noted 1943 Harvard study, there were no cases of toxemia, congenital anomalies, or neonatal deaths among a group of well-fed woman. In contrast two~thirds of the children born to women who were on poor prenatal diets had congenital abnormalities, dies, or (had) neurological dysfunction. and 44% of the mothers had developed toxemia.”

Wells Children Age Mother Dies Born Dark Poor Cases Study Groups Medical Diets Feds Contrast Harvard Dark Ages Dysfunction Anomalies Abnormality

Author:Tom Brewer

“In contrast, the 'Old Europe' channels were showing film from reporters who had embedded themselves at the wrong end of the Baghdad blitz and the Basra bombardment. These films depicted the shattered homes, the killed and grieving civilians and the infrastructure chaos our armed forces are creating daily. Since this footage (none of it bearing the al-Jazeera logo) clearly exists, why does the Western media studiously ignore it or, when confronted by it, claim it to be Iraqi propaganda.”

“Science is like society and trade, in resting at bottom upon a basis of faith. There are some things here, too, that we can not prove, otherwise there would be nothing we can prove. Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end. It is a mistake to contrast religion and science in this respect, and to think of religion as taking everything for granted, and science as doing only clean work, and having all the loose ends gathered up and tucked in. We never reach the roots of things in science more than in religion.”

Thinking Ends Would Be Science Mistake Prove Roots Accounts Bases Trade Clean Bottom Busy Granted Contrast Can Not Science And Religion Loose Ends

Author:Charles Henry Parkhurst

“Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination.”

Truth Moving Found Imagination Brilliant Chess Contrast

Book:Common Sense in Chess

Source: Common Sense in Chess

“I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change.”

Trying Today Change Contrast

Author:Gianni Versace

“Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging.”

Needs Persons Doe Seems Humanity Mass Rounds Contrast Now And Then Seething

Author:Ernest Dimnet

“As with sound, images are subjective. You and I may not see the same color red as red, but we will probably agree that the image on the screen is a digital image or film image, based on contrast, bit depth, and refresh rate.”

May Film Bits Sound Color Red Agree Depth Rate Screens Digital Contrast Subjective Subjectivity Color Red

Author:John Dykstra

“My brother the vampire, whose kiss was a slow death sentence, had a stable and loving relationship with a girl who was crazy about him. By contrast, I could barely talk to a woman, at least about anything pertaining to a relationship. Given that my only long-term girlfriends had faked their own death, died, and broken free of enslaving enchantments to end the relationship, the empirical evidence seemed to indicate that he knew something I didn't. Keep your life tonight, Harry. Complicate it tomorrow.”

“A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The past makes us ask what we have done with us. It makes us ask whether our very achievements are not ironical counterpoint and contrast to our fundamental failures.”

Looks Done Past Asks History Achievement Fundamentals Distance Contrast

Book:A Time to Hear and Answer: Essays for the Bicentennial Season

Source: A Time to Hear and Answer: Essays for the Bicentennial Season

“He found himself weeping. Not for the future or for the emperor. These were the tears of a man who saw before himself a masterpiece. True art was more than beauty; it was more than technique. It was not just imitation. It was boldness, it was contrast, it was subtlety.”

Men Art Found Saws Tears Technique Contrast Imitation Masterpiece Boldness Weeping Emperor Subtlety

Book:Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

Source: Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually.”

Problem Spirit Suffering Moral Poverty Progress Mankind Creation Bridges Abundance Contrast Technological Scientific Progress

Book:In a Single Garment of Destiny

Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny

“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 between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.”

Has Beens Home Past Modern Constant Painful China Destroyed Chinese Contrast Furniture Reminders Ugliness

Author:Jung Chang

“In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events.”

Mind Doe Order Events Conservative Intellect Rhythm Shock Contrast Accommodate Upheaval Metropolitan

Book:The Sociology of Georg Simmel

Source: The Sociology of Georg Simmel

“Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.”

Felt Air Communication Anxiety Fellows Illness Stillness Contrast Filling Tiresome

Author:Robin Hobb

“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 terrain. . . . The horizon here is very, very stark, the sky is pitch black and the earth, or the moon rather, excuse me, is quite light, and the contrast between the sky and the moon is a vivid dark line.”

Thinking Light Earth Black Lines Dark Sky Particular Moon Excuse Sunset Horizon Contrast Impressed Sunrise Vivid Apollo Starks Star Gazing Excuse Me Terrain Sunrise And Sunset Pitch Black

Author:William Anders

“It’s unlikely that any of those natural hazards will do us in within the next 100 years if we’ve already survived 100,000. By contrast, we are introducing, through human activity, entirely new types of dangers by developing powerful new technologies. We have no record of surviving those.”

Ifs Years Humans Next Natural Powerful Technology Records Danger Type Activity Developing Contrast Introducing Survived Unlikely Surviving Hazards New Technology Human Activity

Author:Nick Bostrom

“Sometimes in the contrast of the night, we can best see the glory of God.”

Sometimes Night Glory Contrast Glory Of God

Book:Jesus, the One and Only

Source: Jesus, the One and Only

“Glacier Gray is an unobtrusive gray that contrasts and enhances; bouncing off other shades without taking away from them as it slips into the background to allow other colors to take center stage. Nature’s most perfect neutral, Glacier Gray is a shade that is timeless. Quietly assuring and peacefully relaxing, Glacier Gray, is above all, constant.”

Perfect Stage Color Constant Backgrounds Gray Shade Slips Contrast Timeless Glaciers Center Stage

Author:Leatrice Eiseman

“Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancient -- perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups.”

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

“A strip club is one of the few places where two groups voluntarily come together who have such precipitous contrasts in net worth and familiarity with violence, each group with a head-and-shoulders edge in one category. The basic math of a tropical storm.”

Two Together Violence Groups Edges Clubs Storm Math Shoulders Categories Contrast Familiarity Tropical Net Worth

Author:Tim Dorsey

“Could there possibly have been an incumbent more easy to knock-off than George W. Bush? A real-life opposition party would have been insulted to be matched with a such an unworthy and frail rival. The Democrats, by contrast, got their lights punched out.”

Has Beens Real Light Politics Easy Party Democrat Real Life Opposition Contrast Rivals Unworthy Frail Insulted Matched Incumbents Opposition Parties

Author:Marc Cooper

“There is a rhythm in life, a certain beauty which operates by a variation of lights and shadows, happiness alternating with sorrow, content with discontent, distilling in this process of contrast a sense of satisfaction, of richness that can be captured and pinned down only by those who possess the gift of awareness.”

Light Certain Process Awareness Sorrow Shadow Satisfaction Rhythm Contrast Variation Richness Captured Discontent Light And Shadow

Author:Louis Bromfield

“The precision of hisskill places his work beyond the tentative and the experimental stage. He is continually searching and exploring both himself and his surroundings. and in this exploration of the realm of places, people and things, contrasts and relationships, Callahan is no respecter of conventional technical formula or code. His delicate sense of pattern is an integral part of his photography and not a thing by itself.”

People Stage Photography Patterns Code Realms Exploration Formulas Delicate Contrast Conventional Exploring Surroundings Precision

Author:Edward Steichen

“Securing, not prohibiting, the orderly transfer of wealth from A to B, based on wealth differentials, is the raison d'être of the [New Deal programs]. The contrast between the modern progressive and classical liberal agendas could not be more explicit.”

Wealth Deals Modern Program Agendas Progressive Contrast Transfers Orderly Explicit New Deal

Author:Richard Allen Epstein

“Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone.”

People Shows Hours Party Gone Prepared Democrat British Strikes Labour Contrast April Labour Party

Author:Arthur Scargill

“By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say that evolution is a natural process, history a human one.... Insofar as we treat man as a part of nature--for instance in a biological survey of evolution--we are precisely not treating him as a historical being. As a historically developing being, he is set over against nature, both as a knower and as a doer.”

Men Way Humans Would Be Process Natural Evolution Treats Historical Instance Developing Unconscious Contrast Better Ways Surveys Doers

Author:Owen Barfield

“Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal his most compelling problems are not solved then, they only begin. He strives for power or for love, or for destruction, he risks his life for religious, for political, for humanistic ideals, and these strivings are what constitutes and characterizes the peculiarity of human life.”

Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

“In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the future which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future”

Way Done Community Vision Citizens Towns Contrast Small Town Suburbs Dwellers Visions Of The Future

Book:The Americans: The Democratic Experience

Source: The Americans: The Democratic Experience

“Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.”

Enemy Virtue Honor Integrity Opposites Contrast Condemning

Author:Tacitus

“Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism.”

Self Order Social Draws Organization Down And Assumption Contrast Social Systems Top Down

Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.”

Body Light Pleasure Perception Highest Observation Sensitive Shade Contrast Diamond Fatigue Luster

Book:Life and Writings

Source: Life and Writings

“Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what's left of them.”

Left Class Century Keys Areas Contrast Abstraction Bourgeois Proletariat Bourgeoisie Petite

Author:Roland Barthes

“Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through ... You can go into a trance while you're doing it, so it's a nice contrast to real life.”

Littles Ideas Real Process Nice Painting Real Life Contrast Trance

Author:Paul McCartney

“Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.”

Philosophy Moments Science Existence Eternal Philosopher Contrast Happy Moments

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“A student researching into my work has actually traced the newspapers and magazines where I found theses images and has found out that many of them illustrate a collection of gruesome stories, murders and suicides which contrast with the images used. There is a contrast between the message carried by the text and that suppressed by the illustration.”

Art Stories Used Found Students Messages Murder Suicide Newspapers Magazines Collections Contrast Illustration Thesis Atlas

Book:Gerhard Richter

Source: Gerhard Richter

“San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It's a great setting for a horror story.”

Stories Light Beautiful Dark Cities Horror Setting Settings Contrast San Francisco Horror Stories Overlapping Beautiful City

Author:Christopher Moore

“When you're writing, you're only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you're involving all four limbs, and you're hearing stuff and you're converting your ideas into physical motions, getting physical feedback from things you are touching - it's pretty cool. It's a really a nice contrast to writing.”

Writing Ideas Stuff Brain Four Nice Fingers Hearing Touching Contrast Limbs Feedback Involving Converting Drumming

Author:Michael Azerrad

“No one knows anything about economics. It's the great lie of the economists. By contrast in football people might have contrasting opinions, each of which has some validity. But the economists always speak in conditionals - what a mess.”

People Knows Might Lying Speak Opinion Football Economics Mess Contrast Economist Validity

Author:Vicente del Bosque

“I'm fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey that a man of similar ambition, of similar intelligence makes. What sort of concessions does a woman have to make? Does she have to work 20 percent harder than a man?”

Men World Doe Journey Ambition Percent Harder Intelligent Fascinated Contrast Ambitious Concessions Ambitious Women

Author:Charles Cumming

“I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong.”

Values Moral Virtue Morality Judgment Standards Bases Atheist Objectives Contrast Conform Moral Values Theist Moral Judgment

Author:William A. Dembski

“The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting.”

Character Interesting Conflict Contrast

Author:Chris Hemsworth

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