"WHATEVER Life may really be, it is to……" — Bill Vaughan
"WHATEVER Life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world."
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191 Quotes by Bill Vaughan
Bill Vaughan has 191 quotes on this site.
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Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody…
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The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.
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Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.
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Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.
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Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
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A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.
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If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in…
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It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to…
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As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible.
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It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back
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The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets…
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At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest…
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More Abstraction Quotes
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one of 249 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
— Josef Albers
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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
— Sarah Caldwell
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
— Paul Cezanne
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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
— Deepak Chopra
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Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of…
— Evelyn Underhill
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The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor…
— Emma Goldman
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The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.
— Piet Mondrian
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Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
— Paul Gauguin
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The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal…
— George Boole
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It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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