There's no gray area in law enforcement. Evil exists in the world and it must be dealt with. And those on the… — Benjamin Bratt Copy Share Image
I want to make photographs whose very ambiguity provokes thought, rather than cuts it off prematurely. I want to make pictures that… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
Could any symbol be any more appropriate of the ambiguity of human transformation? What mushroom is it that grows at the end… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused... this ambiguity can have severe,… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
A young girl would go into the wood as trustingly as Red Riding Hood to her granny's house but this light admits… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. To this chiefly it is owing that… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
“It took him almost a half hour to write a message of only five lines. It took yet another fifteen minutes to… — Joakim Zander 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
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 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
“[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'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 inherent preferences of organizations are clarity, certainty and perfection. The inherent nature of human relationships involves ambiguity, uncertainty, and imperfection. How… — Richard Pascale Copy Share Image
I think that being mindful of your own biases tends to lead you into ambiguity, not clarity, and that following those ambiguities… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
I like a challenging comic as much as the next guy but I feel like I am pretty conservative when it comes… — Charles Forsman Copy Share Image
He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
If it doesn’t have ambiguity, don’t bother to take it. I love that, that aspect of photography—the mendacity of photography—it’s got to… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
Our chronic discomfort with ambiguity - which, ironically, is critical to both our creativity and the richness of our lives - leads… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself. — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
There's a reticence necessary when you consider the suffering of others. Into the space created by that reticence, you bring in those… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
This is a general comment that you should take a committed dose of whatever it is you're taking so that there is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Given the ambiguity of religious texts and teachings, the mixed historical record, and the empirical evidence, it would be foolhardy to assert… — Kenneth D. Wald Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we can conceive of the ironist as the fetishist's apprentice, reaching out for all readers, ensnaring them in a tangle of… — Janet Beizer Copy Share Image
These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or… — Godfrey Reggio Copy Share Image
“But was it worth anything? That's the hopelessness of it. The openness of it. The part of it I can never understand.… — Katherine Ewell Copy Share Image
“It's all right, I want to say to the students who write to me, for things to be what they appear to… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of… — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.… — Martin Horner Copy Share Image
The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The way innovating companies are designed leaves ambiguities, overlaps, decision conflicts or decision vacuums in some parts of the organisation. People rail… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
Language is, in other words, not necessary, but voluntary. If it were necessary, it would have stayed simple; it would not agitate… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Running through the maze of life, you come across profound ambiguities and complexities. Yet the essence of living a meaningful life remains… — Roopleen Copy Share Image
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