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> [A culture is not an abstract thing. It is a living, evolving process. The aim is to push beyond standard-setting and asserting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-robinson/a-culture-is-not-an-abstract-thing-it-is-a-living-evolving-process/)

[Mary Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-robinson/)

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> [I'm really creating abstract shapes and relationships that work together. They come together and give the illusion of reality, but they're really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-newman/i-m-really-creating-abstract-shapes-and-relationships-that-work/)

[John Newman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-newman/)

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> ['Look at Me' started with Rockford, Illinois and New York and the question of how much image culture was changing our inner…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-egan/look-at-me-started-with-rockford-illinois-and-new-york-and-the/)

[Jennifer Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-egan/)

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> [The essence of capitalism is expressed in two of its basic features: a) profit maximization and b) market competition. In their abstract…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muhammad-yunus/the-essence-of-capitalism-is-expressed-in-two-of-its-basic-features-a/)

[Muhammad Yunus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muhammad-yunus/)

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> [What intrigues me most about the human voice, is its ability to make all things transparent through its power of transformation. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/azam-ali/what-intrigues-me-most-about-the-human-voice-is-its-ability-to-make/)

[Azam Ali](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/azam-ali/)

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> [You have to act and this is something that happened in abstract expressionism too, it was a discovery particularly in De Kooning's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-snow/you-have-to-act-and-this-is-something-that-happened-in-abstract/)

[Michael Snow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-snow/)

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> [It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-north-whitehead/it-is-natural-to-think-that-an-abstract-science-cannot-be-of-much/)

[Alfred North Whitehead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-north-whitehead/)

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> [Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/five-senses-an-incurably-abstract-intellect-a-haphazardly-selective/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/reason-in-a-strict-sense-as-meaning-the-judgment-of-truth-and/)

[David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/)

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> [“Oh, don't pull your hand away from me, I've promised myself that maybe by the end of this impossible narrative I shall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarice-lispector/oh-don-t-pull-your-hand-away-from-me-i-ve-promised-myself-that-maybe/)

[Clarice Lispector](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarice-lispector/)

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> [Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/clearly-mythology-is-no-toy-for-children-nor-is-it-a-matter-of/)

[Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/)

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> [The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-graeber/the-notion-that-a-society-could-be-regulated-entirely-by-market/)

[David Graeber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-graeber/)

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> [One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hopper/one-of-the-weaknesses-of-much-abstract-painting-is-the-attempt-to/)

[Edward Hopper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hopper/)

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> [An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft/an-immoderate-fondness-for-dress-for-pleasure-and-for-sway-are-the/)

[Mary Wollstonecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft/)

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> [I suspect that any worthwhile exploration of these deep questions about living requires going beyond abstract discussions to the vivid presentation of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-kitcher/i-suspect-that-any-worthwhile-exploration-of-these-deep-questions/)

[Philip Kitcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-kitcher/)

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> [The US and Israel have demanded further that Palestinians not only recognize Israel's rights as a state in the international system, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/the-us-and-israel-have-demanded-further-that-palestinians-not-only/)

[Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/)

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> [I don't think that photorealism is required to offer emotions. You can have very abstract characters and renderings offering the same type…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-cage/i-don-t-think-that-photorealism-is-required-to-offer-emotions-you-can/)

[David Cage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-cage/)

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> [ Your words have come true with a vengeance that I shd \[should\] be forestalled ... I never saw a more striking coincidence.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/your-words-have-come-true-with-a-vengeance-that-i-shd-should-be/)

[Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/)

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> [All things whatsoever God in his infinite wisdom has seen fit and proper to reveal to us, while we are dwelling in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-smith/all-things-whatsoever-god-in-his-infinite-wisdom-has-seen-fit-and/)

[Sam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-smith/)

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> [The tools used by economists to analyze business firms are too abstract and speculative to offer any guidance to entrepreneurs and managers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-coase/the-tools-used-by-economists-to-analyze-business-firms-are-too/)

[Ronald Coase](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-coase/)

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> [The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second — comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-warhol/the-pop-artists-did-images-that-anybody-walking-down-broadway-could/)

[Andy Warhol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-warhol/)

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> [A true noun, an isolated thing, does not exit in nature. Things are only the terminal points, or rather the meeting points…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-fenollosa/a-true-noun-an-isolated-thing-does-not-exit-in-nature-things-are-only/)

[Ernest Fenollosa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-fenollosa/)

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> [Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-stella/up-until-35-i-had-a-slightly-skewed-world-view-i-honestly-believed/)

[Frank Stella](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-stella/)

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> [Love is not a word that describes my feelings; it is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs; it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-h-peterson/love-is-not-a-word-that-describes-my-feelings-it-is-not-a-technique/)

[Eugene H. Peterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-h-peterson/)

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> [I have always seen life personally; my interest or sympathy or indignation is not aroused by an abstract cause but by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-roosevelt/i-have-always-seen-life-personally-my-interest-or-sympathy-or/)

[Eleanor Roosevelt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-roosevelt/)

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> [I took physics, and lo and behold, there's a lot of physics in 'Lost.' I think for most people, liberal arts educations…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlton-cuse/i-took-physics-and-lo-and-behold-there-s-a-lot-of-physics-in-lost-i/)

[Carlton Cuse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlton-cuse/)

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> [Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-brand/say-i-feel-all-sad-and-self-indulgent-then-get-stung-by-a-wasp-my/)

[Russell Brand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-brand/)

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> [-- and it occurred to me that people who don't talk about themselves are limiting their own potential. They think they're guarding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-klosterman/and-it-occurred-to-me-that-people-who-don-t-talk-about-themselves-are/)

[Chuck Klosterman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-klosterman/)

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> [Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/philosophers-are-not-honest-enough-in-their-work-although-they-make-a/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [I think people feel very comfortable reviewing the idea of me, as opposed to what I've actually written. Most of the time,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-klosterman/i-think-people-feel-very-comfortable-reviewing-the-idea-of-me-as/)

[Chuck Klosterman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-klosterman/)

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> [Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-whyte/heartbreak-is-our-indication-of-sincerity-in-a-love-relationship-in-a/)

[David Whyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-whyte/)

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> [Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/because-they-claim-to-be-concerned-with-the-welfare-of-whole/)

[Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/)

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> [The subjects in my work appear as unidentified ghosts that can't be said to be of this world. I've decided to call…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hyon-gyon/the-subjects-in-my-work-appear-as-unidentified-ghosts-that-can-t-be/)

[Hyon Gyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hyon-gyon/)

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> [I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/i-was-struck-by-the-absence-even-among-very-young-boys-and-girls-of/)

[Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/)

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> [The very same brain centers that interpret and feel physical pain also become activated during experiences of emotional rejection. In brain scans,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/the-very-same-brain-centers-that-interpret-and-feel-physical-pain/)

[Gabor Mate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/)

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> [Centralize property in the hands of a few and the millions are under bondage to property - a bondage as absolute and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-henry-morgan/centralize-property-in-the-hands-of-a-few-and-the-millions-are-under/)

[Lewis Henry Morgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-henry-morgan/)

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> [This system in which a child is constantly moving objects with his hands and actively exercising his senses, also takes into account…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maria-montessori/this-system-in-which-a-child-is-constantly-moving-objects-with-his/)

[Maria Montessori](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maria-montessori/)

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> [Picasso and Matisse were the guys I wanted to get away from, and cubism is all still lifes. Their paintings are all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-katz/picasso-and-matisse-were-the-guys-i-wanted-to-get-away-from-and/)

[Alex Katz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-katz/)

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> [A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/a-mismatched-outfit-a-slightly-defective-denture-an-exquisite/)

[Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milan-kundera/)

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> [For instance, members of the elite will never allow their children to become musicians normally, because it's - not embarrassing - but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayshay/for-instance-members-of-the-elite-will-never-allow-their-children-to/)

[Ayshay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayshay/)

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                        "text": "An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings who have not yet extended the dominion of the mind, or even learned to think with the energy necessary to concatenate that abstract train of thought which produces principles… that women from their education and the present state of civilized life, are in the same condition, cannotbe controverted.",
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                        "text": "I suspect that any worthwhile exploration of these deep questions about living requires going beyond abstract discussions to the vivid presentation of possibilities. If readers are to be prompted to serious examination of their lives, anatomy isn't enough. We have to be stimulated to imagine, in some detail, what it would be like to live in particular ways.",
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                        "text": "Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spirtual pain once more - 'damn you tiny assain, clad in yellow and black, how I crave my former innocence where melancholy was my only trial'.",
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                        "text": "Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the attempt to shape a better more generous self. Heartbreak is the beautifully helpless side of love and affection and is just as much an essence and emblem of care as the spiritual athlete's quick but abstract ability to let go... But heartbreak may be the very essence of being human, of being on the journey from here to there, and of coming to care deeply for what we find along the way.",
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                        "text": "Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as mere abstract profit or loss the human unhappiness that their decisions provoke or their negligence permits. It is a duty of an international citizenship to always bring the testimony of people's suffering to the eyes and ears of governments, sufferings for which it's untrue that they are not responsible. The suffering of men must never be a mere silent residue of policy. It grounds an absolute right to stand up and speak to those who hold power.",
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