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If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
Margaret Mead
Culture
Gift
Achieve
Will
Values
Rich
Recognize
Must
Arbitrary
Find
Fabric
Weave
Diverse
Fitting
Contrasting
Human
Place
Which
Social
Richer
Social Fabric
Less
Whole
Each
Company naming is a key part of the branding process, but it's subject to contrasting tastes and an illiquid domain name market that results in startups wasting their time during the branding process.
David Cohen
Time
Key
Startups
Market
Results
Part
Name
Naming
Subject
Domain
Contrasting
Tastes
Process
Company
Wasting
The contrasting focus on connection versus hierarchy also sheds light on innumerable adult conversations - and frustrations. Say a woman tells another about a personal problem and hears in response, 'I know how you feel' or 'the same thing happens to me.' The resulting 'troubles talk' reinforces the connection between them.
Deborah Tannen
Me
You
Woman
Problem
Light
Focus
Same Thing
Say
Response
Hierarchy
Tells
About
Resulting
Troubles
Adult
Feel
Between
Know
Talk
Also
Sheds
Another
How
Hears
Versus
Contrasting
Personal
Same
Happens
Conversations
Frustrations
Them
Connection
Thing
In 'Training Day,' Mr. Washington's dry-ice grandeur - the predator's reflexes contrasting with a pensive mouth - deserves regard, and his powerhouse virtuosity will almost guarantee him an Oscar nomination.
Elvis Mitchell
Day
Training
Will
Mouth
Almost
Powerhouse
Nomination
Him
His
Reflexes
Contrasting
Training Day
Predator
Regard
Grandeur
Washington
Deserves
Oscar
Guarantee
Every character needs an adversary - one who is both challenging and a contrast for the hero. The best adversaries reveal something about the character they're contrasting.
Greg Rucka
Best
Needs
Character
Hero
Every
About
Something
Both
Adversaries
Adversary
Reveal
Contrast
Contrasting
Who
Challenging
I was always asked to play roles where I was the contrasting or multicultural character. Sometimes that worked for me - often it didn't.
Katy Jurado
Character
Me
Sometimes
Always
Contrasting
Roles
Often
Where
Worked
Asked
Multicultural
Play
I'm always looking at film, studying myself, comparing and contrasting with film of the great linebackers to see what I need to work on.
Khalil Mack
Work
Myself
Great
Looking
See
Studying
Always
Contrasting
Comparing
Film
Need
China is a place where you can experience two very contrasting things coexisting. First, the rich, cultural history of the country - and, second, rapid urbanization.
Ma Yansong
History
You
Experience
First
Country
Rich
Rapid
Cultural
Very
Contrasting
Where
Place
China
Things
Second
Two
The Malays are spiritually inclined, tolerant, and easy-going. The non-Malays, and especially the Chinese, are materialistic, aggressive, and have an appetite for work. For equality to come about, it is necessary that these strikingly contrasting races adjust to each other.
Mahathir Mohamad
Work
Equality
Aggressive
Other
Adjust
Easy-Going
About
Spiritually
Come
Materialistic
Contrasting
Chinese
Races
Tolerant
Inclined
Each
Appetite
Necessary
I like playing the contrasting roles. It what inspires me to act. If I look back on my career I am happy that I have gotten to play a wide variety of different roles, from Mike Dexter, to Van Ray in Fast Lane, to Dr. Cullen to Coop.
Peter Facinelli
Me
Happy
Back
Van
Variety
Inspires
Ray
Like
Look
Dexter
Am
Gotten
Contrasting
Roles
Different
Mike
Act
Lane
Different Roles
Fast
Play
Fast Lane
Wide
Dr
Wide Variety
Playing
Career
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.
Vicente del Bosque
Great
Lie
People
Speak
Economics
Validity
Some
About
No-One
Football
Economists
Mess
Knows
Always
Opinions
Contrast
Contrasting
Anything
Which
Might
Each