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Tag Name "Dissonance" (42)

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Dissonance is the truth about harmony.
Theodor Adorno
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dissonance, n. Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk to you and you won't. Hours when every noise you make interferes with my silence. Weeks when there is a buzzing in the air, and we both pretend we don't here it.
David Levithan
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Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.
William Carlos Williams
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Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.
Georges Rodenbach
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Dissonance cannot be corrected by criticism.
Wilford W. Andersen
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Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I believe that I have created a lot of cognitive dissonance in the minds of people who are comfortable with stereotypes.
Hillary Clinton
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In noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony when it is fashioned by man with specific tools, when it invades man’s time, when it becomes sound, noise is the source of the purpose and power, of the dream – Music.
Jacques Attali
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America has long raised political and cultural cognitive dissonance to an art form. We are capable of living with enormous inequality and injustice while convincing ourselves that we are in fact moving toward what Churchill called the broad, sun-lit uplands.
Jon Meacham
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This indie rock stuff, I mean I like it, too - it pushes all my buttons: sex appeal, dissonance. It's emotive, disenchanted.
Ketch Secor
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It's a shame cars don't run on cognitive dissonance.
Lewis Black
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Finding beauty in the dissonance.
Maynard James Keenan
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We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our knowledge and the perceivable facts. Since our knowledge is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered.
Nathaniel Branden
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I would like to have people hear dissonance, but I don't want it to be so off-putting that they never get there to begin with. That's actually how I hear it that's what's pleasant to me. I don't like dense, chaotic dissonance. My brain gets lost. I need something to hang onto.
Patricia Barber
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After a while, if you're committed, you start to believe in the things in which you're praying. It's just cognitive dissonance. You can't live a completely religious life and not start to have it sink in.
A. J. Jacobs
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
Quincy Jones
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You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [....] I find that it obviates the necessity for any cognitive dissonance.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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There's this presence of these missing people and this lost community that I felt but could not see, and that was a very strange dissonance for me.
Shimon Attie
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If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?
Charles Ives
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There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Choosing to be kind is also a choice to make the Power of Intention active in your life. The beneficial effects of kindness on the immune system and the increased production of serotonin have been proven. Conversely, unkindness weakens the body and puts us into a state of dissonance. So extend acts of kindness ask for nothing in return.
Wayne Dyer
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There's no linear narrative - the structure is more like a series of variations on a theme (how identity is shaped by language), with the past constantly bleeding into the present, dreams into reality. And the language, while incredibly lyrical in places, also has this underlying dissonance, the sense of it having itself been translated.
Deborah Smith
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When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would tear up, and I felt it in a physical way.
Eric Whitacre
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I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can whistle.' You have to sit down and listen to tell it apart from other things.
Eugene Chadbourne
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