Abstraction Quote by Jack Donovan

“Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both action and abstraction.”

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“The natural gods of men are other men, mythic or real, who embody manhood in men's eyes.”

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It must be scary to stand up for beliefs also held by Eric Holder.

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“Until you can function as a competent member of the group and carry your own weight, you are a supplicant and a drag on…

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Sometimes men pick fights just for something to do-just to feel something like the threat of harm and the possibility of triumph.

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When men evaluate each other as men, they still look for the same virtues that they'd need to keep the perimeter. Men respond to…

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Without action, words are just words. Without violence, laws are just words. Violence isn’t the only answer, but it is the final answer.

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Gay is a subculture, a slur, a set of gestures, a slang, a look, a posture, a parade, a rainbow flag, a film genre,…

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Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.

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The premises from which we begin are not arbitrary ones, not dogmas, but real premises from which abstraction can only be made in the…

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Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction

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But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and…

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Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes…

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I like residing in abstraction.

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Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes possible to forget this one basic fact. Doctors treat…

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Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to…

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Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it.

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