“ There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art. ”
- Jerome Bruner- Copy
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“ You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence. ”
- Katherine Anne Porter- Copy
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“ I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after. ”
- Wallace Stevens- Copy
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“ When you jump to innuendoes and unnamed sources, you have to take some responsibility. ”
- Gary Condit- Copy
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“ I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human. ”
- Clive Owen- Copy
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“ We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body. ”
- Ray Kurzweil- Copy
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“ Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext. ”
- Gary Oldman- Copy
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“ The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ As by the way of innuendo Lucus is made a non lucendo. ”
- Charles Churchill- Copy
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“ The voice of America has no undertones or overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic catchwords in a tireless monologue that has the slightly metallic sound of a gramophone. ”
- Vance Palmer- Copy
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“ Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning. ”
- Carl Rogers- Copy
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“ I do not know which makes a man more conservative — to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. ”
- John Maynard Keynes- Copy
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“ The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing. ”
- Edwin Meese III- Copy
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“ Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens upon human beings. ”
- Kenneth B. Clark- Copy
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“ The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words; he must know not only the direct but also the secret power of a word. There are overtones and undertones to a word, and lateral echoes, too. ”
- Knut Hamsun- Copy
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“ As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole — the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives — you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration. ”
- Stephen Covey- Copy
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“ Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards. ”
- Theodore Zeldin- Copy
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