Specify Quotes

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President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how. — Barbara Boxer
We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is… — Hermann Bondi
Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules… — Noam Chomsky
The rush to attribute culpability to a minority after an act of mass murder is a rush to exonerate the general public â€“ how can… — Ari Ne'eman
There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic and mystical connotations; C.S. Lewis… — Julian Barnes
When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom. — B.F. Skinner
I have yet to hear anyone afflicted with the "gun control" disability dial 9-1-1 and specify, "Now please be sure to send the kind of… — Vin Suprynowicz
All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isnâ€™t are not easy to specify — Erving Goffman
We cannot ultimately specify the grounds (either metaphysical or logical or empirical) upon which we hold that our knowledge is true. Being committed to such… — Michael Polanyi
If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say… — C. Wright Mills
To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end in itself. The… — Jim Horning
If I have a right to a job, education, health care or a house, then I must be able to specify the person or persons… — Richard Allen Epstein
The Web brings people together because no matter what kind of a twisted sexual mutant you happen to be, you've got millions of pals out… — Richard Jeni
It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise. — Brady Anderson
Why can't you summon a command line and search your real-world home for 'Honda car keys,' and specify rooms in your house to search instead… — Richard Dooling
All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit,… — Aristotle
It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an adequate idea of… — Charles Darwin
Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously. If we have no direct evidence of fossils or human chronicles, if we are forced to infer a process… — Stephen Jay Gould
I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial,… — Floyd Abrams
Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong, and very possibly… — Peter Farb

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