"To toy with something is to manipulate it,……" — Susan Stewart

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• I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the… — Tori Amos
• The basic thesis of gestalt theory might be formulated thus: there are contexts in which what is happening in the… — Max Wertheimer
• As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic… — William Thurston
• I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and… — Barbara Kruger
• The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish… — George W. S. Trow
• It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates… — Mikhail Bakhtin
• The word in language is half someone else’s… it exists in other people’s mouths, in other people’s contexts, serving other… — Mikhail Bakhtin
• The real hallmark of learning is transferring what you’ve learned into new contexts. — Eric Mazur
• Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise,… — Alan Kay
• We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts. — Jay Maisel
• Thinking about how disturbingly herdlike people become in so many different contexts—mimetic theory forces you to think about that, which… — Peter Thiel
• I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities. — Andrew Sullivan

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