General Terms Quotes
13 quotes by 13 authors
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In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word which implies more…
— Arthur Schuster
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I, sir, have always conceived - I believe those who proposed the constitution conceived,and it is still more fully known, and more material to observe,…
— James Madison
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Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms,…
— Walter Pater
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Entering in the narrow gate is allowing Him to define your life, and not in general terms. See, there's your problem. 'Oh, Jesus is everything…
— Paul Washer
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All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book in quite general…
— Lynne Truss
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The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the earth;…
— Wendell Berry
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In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated…
— Susan Neiman
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
— Iris Murdoch
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More to the point, I know why soldiers, home from war, seldom tell their families about their exploits in more than general terms. We who…
— Dean Koontz
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There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open (and…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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He’s bound to have done something,†Nobby repeated. In this he was echoing the Patrician’s view of crime and punishment. If there was a crime,…
— Terry Pratchett
Who Wrote These General Terms Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 13 General Terms Quotes as follows: