Context Quotes
638 quotes by 572 authors
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Are zombies possible? They're not just possible, they're actual. We're all zombies. Nobody is conscious — not in the systematically mysterious way that supports such…
— Daniel Dennett
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We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very…
— Rem Koolhaas
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The Notion Of A Contemporary Epiphany To Me Is Very Exciting, Because It's A Sort Of Biblical Thing. It's Something That Has Happened To People…
— Pamela Stephenson
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When objects are presented within the context of art (and until recently objects always have been used) they are as eligible for aesthetic consideration as…
— Joseph Kosuth
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Nonbelievers may hear all the notes of science, but without a theistic context and perspective they will not hear the song.
— George Marsden
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We are not just scientists, but human beings as well. Like most people we’d like to see the world a better place, which in this…
— Stephen Schneider
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The Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki once stated, 'International cultural exchange is impossible - therefore we must try.' I agree with all my heart. The impossibility…
— Anne Bogart
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I like writing teen characters because they’re vulnerable to the newness of things; and vulnerability makes emotional responses raw, vital and unguarded. Lacking a context…
— Allan Stratton
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It is far easier to be a Christian in isolation than it is to live out one’s faith in the context of all those other…
— Gordon Fee
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Building on exhaustive research and probing into such diverse enterprises as textbook production and marketing, public education, and state-level politics, Adam R. Shapiro has situated…
— Randall Balmer
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My thesis [is] that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within…
— Bill Buxton
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Some of the choices in life will choose you. How you face those choices, these turns in the road, with what kind of attitude, more…
— Dana Reeve
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No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention.
— Janet Jackson
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Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons.
— Douglas Rushkoff
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We need some contact with the things we sprang from. We need nature at least as a part of the context of our lives. Without…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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Good content should be at the heart of your strategy, but it is equally important to keep the display context of that content in mind…
— Tim Frick
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To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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And it occurred to me that in this new millennial life of instant and ubiquitous connection, you don't in fact communicate so much as leave…
— Chang-Rae Lee
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Meaning is context bound, but context is boundless
— Jonathan Culler
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The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.
— Stephen Shore
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572 authors contributed a total of 638 Context Quotes, led by these top contributors: