"I came in with a healthy skepticism about……" — Barack Obama

"I came in with a healthy skepticism about these programs. My team evaluated them. We scrubbed them thoroughly. We actually expanded some of the oversight, increased some of the safeguards. But my assessment, and my team's assessment was that they help us prevent terrorist attacks. In the abstract, you can complain about 'Big Brother' and how this is a potential program run amok. But when you actually look at the details, then, I think we've struck the right balance."

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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. — Honore de Balzac
I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. — Theodor Adorno
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery. — Eric Cantona
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. — Al Capp
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change… — Saul Alinsky
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply… — John Dewey
It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without… — Giorgio Armani

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