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• I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.

  Laura Mvula

  Chocolate, Skins, Shade

  "Laura Mvula on why she, like many black women, shaves her head". Interview with Anita Bhagwandas, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2013.

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• ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fool, Incapacity, Distinction

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.51, 谷月社

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• Putting gloves on the fighters was a symbolic change that suggested that we were now making it a civilized sport, and it was no longer this crazy gladiatorial throwback to ancient Rome. It's even in our language: If you want to get serious and violent, what do you do? You "take the gloves off." Bare-fisted is supposedly a much more dangerous way to hit someone. But we've got it completely backward. The glove is a weapon. It massively accentuates the ability of the fist to do harm.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Sports, Crazy, Rome

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• The objective psychologist, hoping to get at the physiological side of behavior, is apt to plunge immediately into neurology trying to correlate brain activity with modes of experience ... The result in many cases only accentuates the gap between the total experience as studied by the psychologist and neural activity as analyzed by the neurologist.

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Brain, Trying, Gaps

  Roger Wolcott Sperry, Colwyn B. Trevarthern (1990). “Brain Circuits and Functions of the Mind: Essays in Honor of Roger Wolcott Sperry, Author”, p.27, Cambridge University Press

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• Even though the play [ The Best Man] was written a long time ago, the characters seem modern and their struggles to make ends meet and to "have a little fun along the way" have a very contemporary feel. The similarity between the The Great Depression and The Great Recession - as well as the gulf between the super-rich and the ordinary Joe - still rings a bell. One of the things this production accentuates is how beautifully Grandpa and his family accept all kinds of people - rich or poor, black or white - and the best thing that can happen to you is to be part of a loving family.

  Chris Hart

  Fun, Struggle, Character

  Source: blog.roundabouttheatre.org

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• It took me a while to warm to the '20s costumes on 'Downton.' I love it when women accentuate their curves, and that era was all about hiding them. The shapes they wore then were in tune with female empowerment. Cutting off their hair and hiding their busts was a way of saying, 'We're equal to men!'

  Lily James

  Cutting, Men, Curves

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• A hat is a shameless flatterer, calling attention to an escaping curl, a tawny braid, a sprinkling of freckles over a pert nose, directing the eye to what is most unique about a face. Its curves emphasize a shining pair of eyes, a lofty forehead; its deep brim accentuates the pale tint of a cheek, creates an aura of prettiness, suggests a mystery that awakens curiosity in the onlooker.

  Jeanine Larmoth

  Eye, Unique, Curves

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• I love the idea of biracial. I actually don't use the word biracial. I tend to use mixed. Biracial to me accentuates the word race, and, you know, I don't really care for it.

  Mat Johnson

  Race, Ideas, Use

  "Mat Johnson On 'Loving Day' And Life As A 'Black Boy' Who Looks White". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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• I am confident and not trying to hide my bump. I actually want to accentuate it.

  Kim Kardashian

  Trying, Bumps, Want

  "Kim Kardashian Shows Off Her Baby Bump in Daring See-Through Dress" by Kathy Campbell, www.usmagazine.com. September 27, 2015.

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• I always felt, even before I got pregnant, that it's better to accentuate your curves. A lot of women try to tuck their butt in or kind of slouch because they're trying to hide. Obviously, you can't suck it in, but it's important to really show off the belly.

  Marisa Miller

  Curves, Trying, Important

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• When I go on holiday, I wear wedges. They accentuate your leg, honey, and you have to look good on the beach.

  Amy Childs

  Beach, Holiday, Looks

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• I love to accentuate my eyes, so I'll wear eyeshadow and mascara.

  Ming Xi

  Eye, Mascara, Eyeshadow

  "Model Minute: Ming Xi Credits Her Astrological Sign for Her Constantly Evolving Style". Interview with Chrissy Rutherford, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 21, 2013.

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• Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true of the American woman of the middle class. She not only considers herself the equal of man, but his superior, especially in her purity, goodness, and morality. Small wonder that the American suffragist claims for her vote the most miraculous powers. In her exalted conceit she does not see how truly enslaved she is, not so much by man, as by her own silly notions and traditions. Suffrage can not ameliorate that sad fact; it can only accentuate it, as indeed it does.

  Emma Goldman

  Country, Silly, Men

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.57, PM Press

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• Mrs. Charlotte Phelan's Guide to Husband-Hunting, Rule Number One: a pretty, petite girl should accentuate with makeup and good posture. A tall plain one, with a trust fund.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Girl, Husband, Makeup

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.68, Penguin

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• I worry that track is going to enter into an impossibly complicated stage, where our understanding of the complexities of human physiology - and our ability to accentuate and exploit them - is going to make the notion of pure competition impossible.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Track, Worry, Understanding

  "Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.

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• The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse. . . . The nobler sort of man pays special attention to nine points. He is anxious to see clearly, to hear distinctly, to be kindly in his looks, respectful in his demeanor, conscientious in his speech, earnest in his affairs. When in doubt, he is careful to inquire; when in anger, he thinks of the consequences; when offered an opportunity for gain, he thinks only of his duty.

  Confucius

  Opportunity, Men, Thinking

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• Worms'-Meat, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material. The contents of the Taj Mahal, the Tombeau Napoleon and the Granitarium. Worms'-meat is usually outlasted by the structure that houses it, but "this too must pass away." Probably the silliest work in which a human being can engage is construction of a tomb for himself. The solemn purpose cannot dignify, but only accentuates by contrast the foreknown futility.

  Ambrose Bierce

  House, Passing Away, Meat

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.475, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Thinking, Futility Of Life, Evil

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature”, p.287, VM eBooks

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• The fact that I do place music at the end of my films is not to accentuate the emotion. It serves an opposite purpose which is to remove them from the emotional space and allow them to enter a space of thinking, because I believe that when the audience is watching the film they're watching it with their feelings.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Believe, Emotional, Thinking

  "Director Asghar Farhadi Talks THE PAST, His Inspiration for the Story, Filming a Different Side of Paris, the Oscar Controversy, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 18, 2013.

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• I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people take their own experiences seriously.

  Terence McKenna

  Responsibility, Thinking, Issues

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• It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality.

  Arthur Rothstein

  Reality, Lenses, Add

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• One can legitimately accentuate certain things, like a caricaturist.

  Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

  Certain

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• I do not discriminate about size. I design dresses to accentuate a woman's positives, whether you are a size 0 or a size 3X.

  Tadashi Shoji

  Design, Dresses, Size

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• If you accentuate yourself, thinking or acting like you are important, then you must want to look good to someone in this world. In order to impress or sway anybody in this world, you have to be in this world yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Order

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• Superstition is just another form of thought like any other, a form that accentuates and regulates the association of ideas, it's an exacerbation, an illness, but, in fact, all thought is sickness, which is why no one ever thinks too much, at least most people do their best not to.

  Javier Marías

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Javier Marías, Margaret Jull Costa (1997). “Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me”, p.217, New Directions Publishing

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