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• The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long… — Adolf Hitler
• More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people… — Eric Hoffer
• Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
• It's not hard to read about death abstractly. I do find it tough when a character I love dies, of… — Will Schwalbe
• That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not… — Christopher Cokinos
• I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all… — Slavoj Žižek
• As long as we think abstractly, as long as we find in patriotism and the exuberance of War our fulfillment,… — Chris Hedges
• The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang… — Wilfrid
• On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had… — John Pople
• To be truly Catholic is not merely to be correct according to an abstractly universal standard of truth, but also… — Thomas Merton
• It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns… — Kenny Smith
• I started doing 'figures', then, one day, all of a sudden, I started doing abstraction. And then I started doing… — Gerhard Richter

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