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• We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.

  J. L. Austin

  Truth Is, Obsessed, Minimum

  "Philosophical Papers" by J. L. Austin, James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock, 3rd ed., New York: Oxford, (p. 130), 1979.

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• I could never figure out or probably did not take the trouble to figure out what the great philosophical problems are about. The momentous statements I come across are at best a storm in a teacup. There are quite a number of people who have a vested interest in the stuff, make a noble living out of it, and they conspire with one another to keep it alive.

  Eric Hoffer

  Philosophical, Numbers, People

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• My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way it was shaped.

  Doris Lessing

  Book, Shapes, Way

  Doris Lessing (2012). “The Golden Notebook”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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• Our initial sensory data are always "first derivatives," statements about differences which exist among external objects or statements about changes which occur either in them or in our relationship to them. Objects and circumstances which remain absolutely constant relative to the observer, unchanged either by his own movement or by external events, are in general difficult and perhaps always impossible to perceive. What we perceive easily is difference and change and difference is a relationship.

  Gregory Bateson

  Data, Differences, Events

  Jurgen Ruesch, Gregory Bateson (2006). “Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry”, p.173, Transaction Publishers

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• It is one thing, then, to say, "The Bible contains the religion revealed by God ," and quite another to say, "Whatever is contained in the Bible is religion, and was revealed by God." If the latter be accepted, metaphor and allegory become literal statements and the errors and absurdities of bibliolatry follow.

  Lionel Trilling

  Errors, Metaphor, Accepted

  Lionel Trilling (1939). “Matthew Arnold”

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• It is through an "intimate cessation of all intellectual operations" that the mind is laid bare. If nor, discourse maintains it in its little complacency. ... The difference between inner experience and philosophy resides principally in this: that in experience, ... what counts is no longer the statement of wind, but the wind.

  Georges Bataille

  Philosophy, Wind, Differences

  Georges Bataille (1988). “Inner Experience”, p.13, SUNY Press

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• One of the questions on which clarity of thinking is now most necessary is that of the relation between the methods of science and of Marxist philosophy. Although much has already been written on the subject, yet there is still an enormous amount of confusion and contradictory statement.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Philosophy, Thinking, Confusion

  "Dialectical Materialism and Modern Science". Science and Society, Volume II, No. 1, 1937.

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• If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries.

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Trying, Makest

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• I may go back and spice it up with a little bit of the tool stuff and grunting and all that that I know so well. But it feels like I'm rehashing old material. And some of my audiences like that. So I'm there to entertain. I'm not there to make a political statement or anything like that. I'm there to entertain.

  Tim Allen

  Political, Tools, Spices

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• The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

  George C. Marshall

  War, Winning, Cities

  "The United States strategic bombing surveys European War Pacific War", (p. 41), September 30, 1945.

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• I know politicians are going to be judged on everything they say but sometimes in the heat of discussion you go a little bit further than you would if it was an absolutely calm, considered, prepared, scripted remark. The statements that need to be taken absolutely as gospel truth are those carefully prepared scripted remarks.

  Tony Abbott

  Taken, Needs, Littles

  "Gospel truth not always in the telling says Tony Abbott". "AM" with Lyndal Curtis, www.abc.net.au. May 18, 2010.

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• Life is nothing but a statement of what happens to be.

  Glen Duncan

  Life, Life Is, Happens

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• I think the biggest statement we can make as men, not as black men, as men, is to stick together and show how strong we are as a group. Not splinter. Not walk. It's easy to protest. The protest will be in our play.

  Doc Rivers

  Strong, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• That's the statement of the culture of England and Britain that someone would try to con a personal statement out of you to then be broadcast everywhere for everyone to debate.

  Frank Lampard

  Trying, Culture, England

  "'I'm not scum' - Frank Lampard rants on radio after DJ labels him a bad father". Interview with James O’Brien, www.dailymail.co.uk. April 25, 2009.

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• The most important form of incremental change is the decision by the individual to become vegan. Veganism, or the eschewing of all animal products, is more than a matter of diet or lifestyle; it is a political and moral statement in which the individual accepts the principle of abolition in her own life. Veganism is the one truly abolitionist goal that we can all achieve - and we can achieve it immediately, starting with our next meal.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Goal, Decision

  "Ethics of Animal Use". Book by Peter Sandøe and Stine B. Christiansen, 2013.

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• [Critical social science attempts] to determine when theoretical statements grasp invariant regularities of social action as such and when they express ideologically frozen relations of dependence that can in principle be transformed.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Principles, Frozen, Action

  "Knowledge and Human Interests". Book by Jürgen Habermas, 1971.

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• It is also naïve empiricism to provide, in support of some argument, series of eloquent confirmatory quotes by dead authorities. By searching, you can always find someone who made a well-sounding statement that confirms your point of view and, on every topic, it is possible to find another dead thinker who said the exact opposite.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Views, Opposites, Support

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly ImprobableFragility"”, p.32, Random House

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• The second step to achieving your goals in the New Year involves action and this is where many people run off track. The life we are living and have known to this point is comfortable and easy. Therefore we find it hard to establish new habits and routines even if we know they will bring us a better life. Our old belief system drags us back into the familiar. It is hard to overcome and we often experience small setbacks. This is the time to go back and look at your goals. Read your goal statement repeatedly and remind yourself of what you want and why.

  Bob Proctor

  Running, New Year, Years

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 31, 2011

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• The statements of certain western officials show that contrary to their absurd claims, westerners are disqualified, and impetuous, lacking any cultural background.

  Hamid-Reza Assefi

  Absurd, Certain, Claims

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• The only uncertainty surrounding the decision is the wording of the accompanying statement and, in particular, whether the assessment that 'some further policy firming may be needed to keep the risks ... roughly in balance' will be dropped.

  Paul Ashworth

  Assessment, Decision, Risk

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• In the editing process, I delete what I do not want to use, move what remains around if necessary and add elements that I feel will make my visual statement as clear and understandable as possible.

  Gerald Brommer

  Moving, Editing, Add

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• People keep framing this as a religious freedom issue, but there's a difference between practising your religion - which everyone has the right to do - and rubbing your religion in people's faces as a triumphalist political statement, which is what's happening here.

  Pat Condell

  Religious, Differences, Issues

  YouTube Chanel "Pat Condell"/ "Bad Faith At Ground Zero", www.youtube.com. August 28, 2010.

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• Marriage is also a social statement, preeminently describing and defining a person's relationship and place in society. Marital status, along with what we do for a living, is often one of the first pieces of information we give to others about ourselves. It's so important, in fact, that most married people wear a symbol of their marriage on their hand.

  Evan Wolfson

  Hands, People, Giving

  Evan Wolfson (2007). “Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution.

  Joseph Alleine

  Fighting, Hands, Execution

  Joseph Alleine, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Alarm to the Unconverted”, Lulu.com

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• Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war, the management of finances --all require the coordination of interrelated activities. What these complex undertakings share in common is the task of constructing a statement of actions to be performed, their timing and quantity (called a program or schedule), that, if implemented, would move the system from a given initial status as much as possible towards some defined goal

  George Dantzig

  Military, War, Moving

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