Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry.… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
To my surprise I found that when other top players in the precomputer age (before 1995, roughly) wrote about games in magazines… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
If this analysis of history is approximately sound and if the future like the past is to be crowded with changes and… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
It is not the conservative psyche that needs analysis. Conservatives were right in the Cold War --so right that liberals are pretending… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
People are so conditioned to take sides that a balanced analysis looks to them like hatred. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is. — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
In the ultimate analysis, all of us would have served Pakistan better if history and our future generations judge us positively. — Ashfaq Parvez Kayani Copy Share Image
Poetic language features an iconic rather than a predominantly conventional relationship of form and content in which all language (and cultural) elements,… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off? — David Byrne Copy Share Image
It is no longer enough to simply read and write. Students must also become literate in the understanding of visual images. Our… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
the habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Is not the semblance of guilt, however slight the tinge, already a corruption?” — Oakley Hall Copy Share Image
A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations.… — S. S. Van Dine Copy Share Image
Google (and pretty much every other major search engine) uses hyperlinks to help determine reputation. Links are usually editorial votes given by… — Matt Cutts Copy Share Image
The mistake that the Bush administration should admit to is not so much that they made the wrong choices. They made the… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Toward the end of his life, Gödel feared that he was being poisoned, and he starved himself to death. His theorem is… — Brian L. Silver Copy Share Image
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
'Dating Game' wasn't social commentary, political analysis, Shakespearean-level drama or even blunt-force comedy. It was just the televised equivalent of meeting someone… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
