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• Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up with the crude English method of development, of course. Despite all deficiencies not only is the death-blow dealt here for the first time to 'teleology' in the natural sciences, but their rational meaning is empirically explained.

  Karl Marx

  Struggle, Book, Science

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1942). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes”

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• Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing Chopin with a boxing glove on one hand and a catcher's mitt on the other.

  George Johnson

  Science, Hands, Boxing

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• Gold is not less but more rational than paper money. Money holds value so long as it is in limited supply; gold will always be in limited supply, and would require real resources to produce even from the sea; paper and printing ink are not in limited supply. The gold system is much closer to a modern automatic scientific control system than the crude and relatively unstable system of paper.

  William E. Rees

  Real, Sea, Long

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• Tangier is one of the few places left in the world where, so long as you don't proceed to robbery, violence, or some form of crude, antisocial behavior, you can do exactly what you want.

  William S. Burroughs

  Long, Tangier, World

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.128, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I cannot hear a sound. Pain is near that will be like no pain felt before.

  Norman Mailer

  Pain, Who I Am, Sound

  NORMAN MAILER (1983). “ANCIENT EVENINGS”

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• Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.

  Robert L. Millet

  Men, Modern, Harsh

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• A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.

  Edward Abbey

  Doubt, Meals, Sauce

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.140, University of Arizona Press

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• The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

  Edward Abbey

  Democracy, Way, Rich

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.15, RosettaBooks

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• The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

  Robert Bresson

  Real, Yield

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.48, New York Review of Books

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• Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Dancing, Ballet

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3990, e-artnow

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• The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used.

  Charles Stross

  Ideas, Yellow, People

  Charles Stross (2006). “Glasshouse”, p.164, Penguin

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• How you speak and the words you use tell much about the image you choose to portray. Use language to build and uplift those around you. Profane, vulgar, or crude language and inappropriate or off-color jokes are offensive to the Lord. Never misuse the name of God or Jesus Christ. The Lord said, "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain" (Ex. 20:7).

  Thomas S. Monson

  Uplifting, Jesus, Color

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• The problem with TV today is not just too much sex, violence, profanity, dishonesty or crude behavior. It is too much TV, period.

  Randall Wright

  Sex, Television, Today

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• You don't know Mexico, man. You have trivialized Mexico. You are a fool about Mexico if you think that Mexico is five blocks. That is not Mexico; that is some crude Americanism you have absorbed.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Block, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.

  Susan Sontag

  Voice, Today, Weak

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• Crude hasn't been responding to fundamentals all year. I think crude has been 8 to 10 overvalued for some time and has been responding to the fear of what could happen rather than the reality of what is happening.

  Kyle Cooper

  Reality, Thinking, Years

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• Our faith in democracy, personal freedoms and human 'rights', and the other comforting prescriptions of the humanist liberal credo stem from the supremacy of maritime over territorial power. Pragmatists may deplore this as crude determinism, as another vain attempt to construct a general theory of history. They should reflect on the sort of political philosophy and structures we might now adhere to had the Habsburgs, Bourbons, Bonaparte, Hitler, Stalin or his heirs prevailed in the titanic world struggles of the past four centuries.

  Peter Padfield

  Philosophy, Struggle, Past

  Peter Padfield (2000). “Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World”, Overlook Books

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• Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.

  Annie Besant

  Simple, Men, Evolution

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.744, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.

  Antonin Artaud

  Actors, Instinct, Vague

  Antonin Artaud (1974). “Collected Works”, Calder Publications Limited

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• A science or an art may be said to be "useful" if its development increases, even indirectly, the material well-being and comfort of men, it promotes happiness, using that word in a crude and commonplace way.

  G. H. Hardy

  Art, Science, Men

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• Gentle souls! You play your love on the violin. The crude ones play it on the drums violently. But can you turn yourselves inside out, like me And become just two lips entirely?

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Play, Two, Soul

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• What is suffering? I'm not sure what it is, but I know that suffering is the name we give to the origin of all the sighs, screams, and groans — small and large, crude and multifaceted — that concern us. The word defines our gaze even more than what we are looking at.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Names, Giving, Suffering

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2009.

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• [T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Stars, Long, Soul

  Madame Bovary pt. 1, ch. 12 (1857) (translation by Francis Steegmuller)

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• There are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things.

  Hans Blix

  Rivers, People, East

  "Blix: I Was Smeared by the Pentagon". Interview with Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2003.

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• We've always known we'd eventually be called upon to open our shirts and save the day, and the superhero was a crude, hopeful attempt to talk about how we all might feel on that day of great power, and great responsibility.

  Grant Morrison

  Responsibility, Hopeful, Superhero

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