Introduction Quotes
274 quotes by 183 authors
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Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper place…
— Ibn Khaldun
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Avoid Prologues. They can be annoying, especially a prologue following an introduction that comes after a foreword.
— Elmore Leonard
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Platonic friendship-the interval between the introduction and the first kiss.
— Sophie Irene Loeb
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A wise and well-informed humanist has taken the time to look lovingly and wonderingly at the living world around him, and to study the ways…
— Marston Bates
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Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend,…
— Joseph Addison
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Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great…
— Sean O'Casey
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Patrick Cheng's Radical Love is not only an excellent introduction to LGBT theology but an important contribution to the discipline of theology and the life…
— James H. Cone
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The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original purpose of entertaining…
— Philip Wylie
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One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, as I wrote in the introduction, is that even if the amount of…
— Nate Silver
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After years of patient study (and with cricket there can be no other kind), I have decided that there is nothing wrong with the game…
— Bill Bryson
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The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully…
— Carleton S. Coon
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Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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...." I was rather discouraged when I discovered that Paul and Hotch had no marketing survey, no business plan, no budget, no organized strategy for…
— Paul Newman
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A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
— Adam Weishaupt
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Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated…
— Willard Van Orman Quine
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I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special…
— Jack Steinberger
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If you don’t want to cry about the state of the economy, why not laugh instead? This book is an ideal introduction to the subject…
— Diane Coyle
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The introduction of LSD and psychedelics into the culture produced a transformation of the entire culture, the consciousness of the culture.
— Ralph Metzner
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Everyone has a transferable commodity-knowledge. Sharing your unique expertise and making introductions for someone creates a lasting legacy.
— Marsha Blackburn
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To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into a sacred context…
— Zeena Schreck
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