Context Quotes

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Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo. "Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very… — Norton Juster
...Having no recourse, I feel back on Shakespeare. Leif would recognize it and understand the context properly. With my remaining few seconds of consciousness, I… — Kevin Hearne
Context is to data what water is to a dolphin — Dan Simmons
[talking about the Holocaust] 'But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.… — Alan Bennett
Some people flinch when you talk about art in the context of the needs of society thinking you are introducing something far too common for… — Chinua Achebe
It goes without saying that all of the people, living, dead, and otherwise, in this story are fictional or used in a fictional context. Only… — Neil Gaiman
There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear obvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact opposite may also be… — Amish Tripathi
Let me say to you what I said once, in an entirely different context to Catherine the Great," Magnus declared. "My dear lady, you cannot… — Cassandra Clare
What about him?â€ sheâ€™d say, finding an attractive guy to point out while they were standing in the lunch line. â€œDo you want to kiss… — Rainbow Rowell
I donâ€™t want to kiss a stranger,â€ Cath would answer. â€œIâ€™m not interested in lips out of context. — Rainbow Rowell
A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must start with… — Karl Mannheim
Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow the ground of… — Wendell Berry
Christians have always tended to transform the Christian Revelation into a Christian religion. Christianity is said to be a religion like any other or, conversely,… — Jacques Ellul
Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third. — Joseph Epstein
"Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of current events. They… — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within (usually) a group… — Greg Thomas
How women view religion's role in society is shaped more by their own country's culture and context than one monolithic view that religion is simply… — Dalia Mogahed
You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three… — Dan Barker
When we vote we participate in the construction of a context... — Aberjhani
In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to… — Rowan Williams

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