We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive,… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
The Democratic leadership has expressed great concern for the incarceration rate in the commonwealth in the last few years. Now they want… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Beware of the truth, gentle Sister. Although much sought after, truth can be dangerous to the seeker. Myths and reassuring lies are… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
All the scientist creates in a fact is the language in which he enunciates it. If he predicts a fact, he will… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
There is no reason to believe that in the face of statutory ambiguity, the meaning of federal law should be settled by… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
“[Soho] is all things to all men, catering comprehensively for those needs which money can buy. You see it as you wish.… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I've often hesitated in beginning a project because I've thought, 'It'll never turn out to be even remotely like the good idea… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of… — Giuseppe Peano Copy Share Image
American movie audiences now just don’t seem to be very interested in any kind of ambiguity or any kind of real complexity… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Isn't it grand, isn't it good, that language has only one word for everything we associate with love - from utter sanctity… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Images work on so many different levels. As a writer you feel them, try not to get in their way or narrow… — Laurie Sheck Copy Share Image
So great are the psychological restistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war of defence… — Harold Lasswell Copy Share Image
To say that one need art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople.… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
...one of hallmarks of a creative person is the ability to tolerate ambiguity, dissonance, inconsistency, things out of place. But one of… — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
I think the relationship between social-dominance orientation in people and the extent to which they're made uncomfortable by ambiguity and novelty is… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I think seriousness is a mask of self-importance and self-importance in turn is a mask for self-pity. So if you're really going… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
For me, wellbehaved books with neat plots and worked-out endings seem somewhat quaint in the face of the largely incoherent reality of… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Mann is widely recognized as a master of irony and ambiguity, yet it's remarkable how quickly people foreclose options he carefully leaves… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
In any case, once you're dealing on a nonverbal level, ambiguity is unavoidable. But it's the ambiguity of all art, of a… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton pandered by telling you what you wanted to hear. John Kerry panders by never telling you what you don't want… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
No matter how physically faint, a photograph involuntarily whisper of something exquisitely carnal. The weeks, the years, whatever stretches of time separating… — Max Kozloff Copy Share Image
“English: "Don't like the world? So change your role in its ambiguity." Česky: „Nelíbí se ti svět? Tak změň svou roli v… — Sebastián Wortys Copy Share Image
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