Situated Quotes
62 quotes by 60 authors
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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
— Daniel Boone
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If you are situated at a great distance from the enemy, and the strength of the two armies is equal, it is not easy to…
— Sun Tzu
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The major advantage of domestic travel is that, with a few exceptions such as Miami, most domestic locations are conveniently situated right here in the…
— Dave Barry
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The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.
— Stephanie Mills
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What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many districts not yet occupied by…
— Charles Lyell
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An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer…
— Hermann Bondi
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In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even…
— Goswami Kriyananda
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To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uniform…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells and…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head.
— Ethel Wilson
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Contrary to popular opinion, the most important characteristic of a godly mother is not her relationship with her children. It is her love for her…
— John F. MacArthur
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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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The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in…
— Anaximander
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The subject who speaks is situated in relation to the other. This privilege of the other ceases to be incomprehensible once we admit that the…
— Claudia Rankine
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After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required,…
— David Ricardo
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At the risk of quoting Mephistopheles I repeat: Welcome to hell. A hell erected and maintained by human-governments, and blessed by black robed judges. A…
— Mumia Abu-Jamal
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Agency has become a catch word. In a way, this intoxication with ‘agency’ is the product of liberal individualism. The ability of individuals to fashion…
— Talal Asad
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A place (lieu) is the order (of whatever kind) in accord with which elements are distributed in relationships of coexistence. It thus excludes the possibility…
— Michel de Certeau
Who Wrote These Situated Quotes
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