Context Quotes

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The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me — Chris Van Allsburg
In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of… — Frantz Fanon
The historical mission of our times is to re-invent the humanâ€”at the species level, with critical reflection, within the community of life-systems, in a time-developmental… — Thomas Berry
The creation story unfurling within the scientific enterprise provides the fundamental context, the fundamental arena of meaning, for all the peoples of the Earth. For… — Brian Swimme
All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story. — Brian Swimme
And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had… — Clare Short
Coitus can scarcely be said to take place in a vacuum; although of itself it appears a biological and physical activity, it is set so… — Kate Millett
RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to our busy minds… — Ben Marcus
I'm a friend in the context that we helped fight a battle together for survival of the American Football League. But I don't consider myself… — Lamar Hunt
My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in a context of intellectual debate. They wind up… — Robert M. Price
It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into… — Bob Schieffer
Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other,… — Kenneth Lee Pike
If you've been playing for a few years, especially in a group context, you'll see if you have the ability or the passion to want… — Mick Taylor
It is only within the context of having properly developed your mind that you will be able to truly enjoy the achievement of your material… — Mike Mentzer
Today, getting people to hear your story on social media, and then act on it, requires using a platformâ€™s native language, paying attention to context,… — Gary Vaynerchuk
It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and… — Donald Judd
Human beings did not have rights.Â Human beings created, from nothing, the domain of human rights.Â They called it up. They languaged it.Â They communicated… — Werner Erhard
Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they are raised in an aberrant… — Jacque Fresco
The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report all massacres are… — Philip Gourevitch
Look, words are like the air: they belong to everybody. Words are not the problem; it's the tone, the context, where those words are aimed,… — Juan Gelman

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