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A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. Lloyd Banks

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When I first began visiting West Germany in the early 1980s, I was startled by the contrast between Birmingham, where I went to school, and affluent Cologne. My host family, the lovely Schumachers, always had an opulent array of grapes on the table; they were better dressed than anyone I knew in Britain. Luke Harding

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Though women begin their lives more fulfilled than men, as they age, they gradually become less happy. Men, in contrast, get happier as they get older. Marcus Buckingham

Age Happy Women Men Become Older Though More Begin Contrast Than Get Gradually Happier Fulfilled Less Lives

Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great Recession that followed. Today, by contrast, credit is too tight. Mortgage loans are particularly hard to get, creating a problem for the housing market and the broader economy. Mark Zandi

Today Great Problem Financial Made Recession Too Market Way Broader Bad Followed Bubble Mortgage Calamity Economy Particularly Tight Housing Housing Market Contrast Get Paved Creating Hard Credit Millions Loans

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that. Martha Plimpton

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Koizumi was not rooted in Japan's rightwing nationalist tradition: he was a pragmatist and a populist. Abe, in contrast, is a rightwing nationalist. Unlike Koizumi, for example, he has questioned the validity of the postwar Tokyo trials of Japan's wartime leaders, which found many of them guilty of war crimes. Martin Jacques

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I thought the musical aspect of 'Freak Dance' was a good contrast to how dancers always try to come off as really tough in those movies - they're trying to literally come off as gangs like as if the Crips and the Bloods are also dancing in addition or instead of fighting with guns and knives and stuff. Matt Besser

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In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can. Maurice Baring

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America, to me, is this enormous contrast between the heady idealism of founding fathers such as Thomas Jefferson, who said, 'All men are created equal,' and the reality that he was himself a slave owner. Michael Portillo

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In fiction, a reaction shot is a brief portrayal of how your character reacts to something that someone else has done. In contrast to more direct character building, your guy doesn't initiate the sequence; he completes it. Exactly how he completes it can tell readers a lot about him. Nancy Kress

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In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned. Natan Sharansky

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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. Nicholas Negroponte

Good Nature Organization Assumption Draw Hierarchical Systems Pretty Pretty Good Only Networks Come Contrast Order Which Social Basic

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. Paul Davies

In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed. Pierre Schaeffer

Music Stage Starts Musical Classical Classical Music Only Abstract Performed Sound Concrete Traditional Contrast Then Expressed Last

Ashok Mehta was the man who brought contrast and lighting back to mainstream Hindi film cinematography. Rajiv Menon

Man Back Cinematography Brought Mainstream Lighting Hindi Contrast Who Film

In the past, missionaries have traveled to far countries with the message of the gospel - with great hardship and often with the loss of life. In contrast, we can reach millions instantly from the comfort of our homes by merely hitting the 'send' button on our computers, or with iPads, or phones. Ray Comfort

Life Great Phones Past Our Computers Instantly Merely Countries Missionaries Reach Message Comfort Gospel iPads Loss Contrast Send Hitting Often In The Past Far Traveled Homes Hardship Button Millions

The contest between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders offered such a bright and bracing contrast to all those professional wrestlers emerging from the RNC's clown car. Rebecca Traister

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Trump's juvenilia stands in stark contrast to Obama's measured words. Richard Cohen

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Cities are about juxtaposition. In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. In Bordeaux, we built law courts right next door to what is effectively a listed historic building, and that makes it exciting. Richard Rogers

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I have always liked the contrast between being blonde and having dark features. Rita Ora

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I am convinced that this approach, a mainstream Democratic approach, commands the strong support of the American people, and presents a sharp and compassionate contrast to the Republican abortion position which offers no real hope or commitment to mother or child. Robert Casey

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My mother was a high-strung perfectionist. She would check my homework for the slightest imperfection and demand that it be redone if she detected any flaws, which she invariably did. My father, in contrast, was easy going and affable and delighted in helping me with any project. Robert Lefkowitz

Me Mother Father Homework Project Slightest Would Easy Invariably Imperfection Delighted Perfectionist Check Demand She Affable Contrast Did Any Going Which Flaws Helping

By virtue of the standing and prestige of President Ben-Zvi, some 3,000 manuscripts originating from Arab lands, some of them of major significance, have been deposited at the Ben-Zvi Institute. In contrast to the Aleppo Codex, most of these documents were donated willingly, in the confidence that the institute would protect and preserve them. Ronen Bergman

Confidence President Virtue Arab Prestige Significance Willingly Would Some Institute Major Most Protect Documents Were Been Contrast Donated Them Lands Standing Manuscripts Preserve

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