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Letter "A" » abstracted
«Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground»
Author: Noah Webster
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Man of letter)
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About:
Language
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Keywords:
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low,
Makers,
tastes,
The Makers,
ties
«Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.»
Author: Paul Engle
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About:
Poets,
Words
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Keywords:
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bled,
delight,
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grief,
page,
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Rage for,
verse,
written,
written word
«Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.»
Author: Saul Alinsky
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About:
Change
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Keywords:
abrasive,
abstract,
abstracted,
abstracting,
conflict,
friction,
frictionless,
movement,
nonexistent,
occur,
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«Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Novelist,
Writer)
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About:
Logic,
Mankind,
Truth
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Keywords:
abstract,
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abstracting,
deductions,
deny,
distort,
evidence,
intentionally,
justify,
predilection,
predilections,
senses,
systems
«There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
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Artist,
Painter)
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About:
Art,
Realism
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Keywords:
abstract,
abstracted,
abstracting,
abstract art,
afterward,
remove,
start,
traces,
tracing
«A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.»
Author: William Gibson
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Keywords:
abstracted,
Banks,
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computer system,
constellation,
constellations,
graphic,
graphics,
ranged,
recede,
recedes,
receding,
representation
«Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.»
«The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you must allure the senses to it»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
abstract,
abstracted,
abstracting,
allure,
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senses,
Teach,
to it,
wish
«There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.»
«I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.»
Author: Stephen Wright
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Actor,
Writer)
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About:
Painting
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Keywords:
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a lot,
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