Literal Sense Quotes
29 Literal Sense quotes by 26 unique authors
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Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
— Theodor Adorno
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In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of…
— Noam Chomsky
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And Christ was born into the world as the literal Son of this Holy Being; he was born in the same personal, real, and literal…
— Bruce R. McConkie
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims that Jesus Christ is the Son of God in the most literal sense. The body in…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these…
— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
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God wastes nothing - not even sin. The soul that has struggled and come through is enriched by it's experiences, and Grace does not merely…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs…
— Prince Charles
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Moses is the keystone to every man's ethical code. He was the first man of record in history to conceive of the law as separate…
— Charlton Heston
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It has been said that in the New Testament doctrine is grace; and ethics is gratitude; and something is wrong with any form of Christianity…
— J I Packer
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I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing
— John Searle
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I am neither religious nor superstitious, but there is something otherworldly about the space where two roads come together. The devil is said to set…
— Tayari Jones
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One should not interpret the word “Revolution” in its literal sense. Various meanings and significances are attributed to this word, according to the interests of…
— Bhagat Singh
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It's ignorant! The stereotype is guys that are weak and have failing relationships write about how sad they are. If you listen to our songs,…
— Brendon Urie
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"I do not believe that Jesus, at the end of his earthly sojourn, returned to God by ascending in any literal sense into a heaven…
— John Shelby Spong
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Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs…
— Prince Charles
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Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there…
— Jonathan Haidt
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The individual in the ordinary circumstances of living may feel more unreal than real; in a literal sense, more dead than alive; precariously differentiated from…
— R. D. Laing
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I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.
— Anselm Kiefer
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I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in…
— Elvis Costello
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We're all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat each other that…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only…
— Karl Marx
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Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems…
— Toni Morrison
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Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos…
— Nate Silver
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I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense.
— Edward Gorey
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Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?" Will said. "It's not a long life,…
— Cassandra Clare
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