Abstraction Quote by Jose Saramago

“Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.”

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One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.

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I am not a prophet.

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“Al día siguiente no murió nadie.”

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“E se as histórias para crianças passassem a ser de leitura obrigatória para os adultos? Seriam eles capazes de aprender realmente o que há…

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In a king, modesty would be a sign of weakness.

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“the inmates of the second ward in the right wing have decided, at long last, to bury their dead, at least we shall be…

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“Stretching one arm behind him, the man passed his hand over the horse's coat, his own skin transformed, or skin which had transformed into…

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I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.

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...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless…

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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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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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In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who…

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Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike…

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Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape…

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The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes…

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