“ Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity. ”
- Walter Mosley- Copy
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“ The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. ”
- Henry Kissinger- Copy
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“ Then, in the twentieth century, speed up your camera. Books cut shorter. Condensations, Digests, Tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending. ”
- Ray Bradbury- Copy
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“ Every innovation occasions more harm and and derangement of order by its novelty, than benefit by its abstract utility. ”
- Legal Maxim- Copy
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“ Words never can express the whole that we feel: they give but an outline. ”
- Eliza Cook- Copy
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“ I hardly ever work from a synopsis — I find they act like chains. ”
- Tanith Lee- Copy
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“ But that our feasts In every mess have folly, and the feeders Digest it with a custom, I should blush To see you so attired, swoon, I think, To show myself a glass. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation. ”
- Tom Naylor- Copy
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“ Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
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“ The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell. ”
- Kim Elizabeth- Copy
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“ I used to be of the outline school, but after 30 years I find it's no longer necessary. However, I don't entirely make it up as I go along. ”
- Alan Dean Foster- Copy
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“ Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was. ”
- Jackson Pollock- Copy
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“ One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'. ”
- Dan Quayle- Copy
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“ Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division ;and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. ”
- Joseph Stalin- Copy
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“ This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have "conclusions" without deductions, "abridgments of history" and "abridgments of science" without leading facts. We have "animals" for literature, "Cabinet" Encyclopaedias, "Family" Libraries, "Diffusion" Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links… ”
- Benjamin Haydon- Copy
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“ I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey… ”
- Igor Stravinsky- Copy
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“ There are a lot of empty seats that are about to be filled with corporatists surrounded by corporate hospitality suites funded by $13 million of taxpayers money. That's a pretty sickly witches' brew for a private convention where corporations have poured $100 million into it… ”
- Ralph Nader- Copy
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“ Since the general civilization of mankind I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. ”
- James Madison- Copy
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“ You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in some respects is the epitome of frivolity. ”
- Jonathan Miller- Copy
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“ Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature and experienced. So you just have to go with what they are rather than have some abstract technique that you're going to try to apply to them. ”
- David Cronenberg- Copy
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“ To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job… ”
- Douglas Adams- Copy
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“ Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. ”
- Louis E. Boone- Copy
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“ Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people. ”
- Felix Frankfurter- Copy
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“ The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. ”
- Paul Klee- Copy
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“ The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. ”
- Jim Bishop- Copy
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