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- When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of… — William James
- I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. — Clifton Fadiman
- Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable… — Oliver Goldsmith
- Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women… — Unknown Author
- The spirit of tanka interests me more than following rigid conventions. As I understand it, the tradition allows a variety of approaches,… — Harryette Mullen
- An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the… — Abraham Lincoln
- This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion.… — Jean Baudrillard
- Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart. — Umberto Eco
- Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions… — Jack Vance
- One would naturally expect that the Lord Jesus Christ would be sufficiently important to receive ample notice in the literature of his… — Merrill C. Tenney
- Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge… — Amy Waldman
- The absolutely Non-Manifested cannot be designated by any expression which could limit It, Separate It, or include It. In spite of this,… — Abdelkader El Djezairi