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«One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.»
Author: James D. Watson
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conception, contrast, goodly, narrow-minded, newspapers, realizing, scientist, supported, The Popular
«It was no more than a black slash in the ground, a poignant contrast to the lofty white marble and limestone of this monumental city. It was cut into a gently rising slope of grass An al fresco mortuary.»
Author: Nelson DeMille
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contrast, cut into, fresco, gently, lofty, monumental, mortuary, poignant, rising slope, slash, slashed, slashes, slope, slopes
«There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.»
«In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
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automatic, calculated, contrast, forgiving, irreversibility, natural action, natural process, predicted, reaction, retains, the Action, transgression
«One of the favorite maxims of my father was the distinction between the two sorts of truths, profound truths recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth, in contrast to trivialities where opposites are obviously absurd»
Author: Niels Bohr
(Physicist)
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Truth
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contrast, distinction, obviously, opposites, recognized, sorts, trivialities, triviality
«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!»
«PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.»
«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.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
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as such, contrast, contrasted, contrasting, contrasts, eternal, fullest, requires, The Eternal
«One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation. . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
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contrast, contrasted, contrasting, contrasts, Creation, derive, enjoyment, inclined, inclines, inclining, included, intense, intention
«In my painting of the 'All -Night Cafe' I've tried to express the idea that the cafe is a place where one can ruin oneself, become crazy and criminal. Through the contrast of the delicate pink, blood red and dark red, of mild Louis XV and Veronese gr»
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