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The equation is a portal through which the mind transcends the boundaries of the tangible, glimpsing the abstract landscapes of mathematical reality. – Martin Tobias Lithner	added by huyenhuyen19921992 4 months ago
There has been a lot of negotiation and conversation among the states and with the Interior Department, but a lot of it’s been conceptual and abstract, putting things down on paper to give direction I think will meaningfully move the conversation. – Tommy Beaudreau	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What fascinated me most is the fact that if you look at art from the 19th century, where conflict is depicted, it’s all very interesting and abstract. As a casual observer you might get the impression it wasn’t that bad, but this one particular skull with a massive facial trauma depicts for the first time how violent the age actually was. – Rob Schäfer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Let's see socialism for what it is. Not in the abstract, but in reality. Socialism is: The taking of money (taxes) from some people who work for it and giving it to others who don't work for it. On a grand scale. The vast expansion of freebies doled out by central government. In order to create and sustain dependence. The government protection of favored persons and corporations, permitting them and aiding them to expand their fortunes without limit, regardless of what crimes they commit in the process. (Monsanto would be a fine example.) The squeezing out of those who would compete with the favored persons and corporations. The dictatorship by and for the very wealthy, pretending to be the servant of the masses. The lie that the dictatorship is being run by the masses. The gradual lowering of the standard of living for the overwhelming number of people. The propaganda claiming socialism is the path to a better world for all. In other words, socialism is a protection racket and a long con and a heartless system of elite control, posing as the greatest good. It is just another form of top-down tyranny---as old as the hills. – Jon Rappoport	added by Normando 1 year ago
When we talk about time, it is not an abstract concept. – Neda Sharghi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You can dehumanize people when they are just abstract concepts to you, affirmative action, voting rights — these are issues that you can depersonalize. But you can't depersonalize your cousin's husband at the barbecue who asks you to pass the ketchup. It's hard to dismiss or take a stance against love when it's in your face. – Marjorie Funderburg	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is not an abstract exercise, it's as real and as urgent as it gets. – Chuck Schumer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
One of the most striking( effects) is thinning of the gray matter of an area of the brain called the prefrontal cortex, it helps us to act appropriately. It gives us insight about ourselves and others. It gives us perspective. It allows us to do complex decision-making and to be able to have thoughtful, abstract reasoning rather than concrete or habitual responses. – Amy Arnsten	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Abstract art involves complex layers and perspectives. To be distinct and hold a truly personalized view point, every element in the piece must be devised to be claimed as entirely mine. Meaning it's all based on sculpture, because most of what we know of photography involves capturing someone else's work, which I dislike. – Adamo Macri	added by anonymous 2 years ago
The truth is that greenhouse gas emissions are abstract, and can be perceived as not impacting people's day-to-day lives and the people that they love, and so I think that our job here is to translate the science and the research and make it real for people and the things and people that they love. – Gaurab Basu	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The kinds of people that are going to bring these lawsuits are the people my staff see every day, they scream at them on the way to work, they know their names, they know what car they drive, and so this isn't abstract to our clinic staff and physicians. – Amy Hagstrom Miller	Found on CNN 2 years ago
When you look deeply into yourself you may be able to see that there is, in this moment, a quality of aliveness that is animating you that is not philosophical and is not abstract. It's independent of what you think about it, what you believe about it and what you feel about it. It's always there! it is animating your breath, It is coursing the spirit, it is what makes it possible for you to think and speak and see and hear. This is the invisible touch. – Alexis karpouzos	added by anonymous 3 years ago
It may literally mean the difference between life and death. And that is not an abstract thing, it is quite literally the only way me, and others like me, have been able to survive without having any family support during this time. – Veronica Bedico	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The' plan' was so much more powerful in the abstract than anything you could offer in the real world to counter it. – Marc Ambinder	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It was just open it up and then more or less business as usual, with a little bit of window dressing, this is not an abstract number of cases. Were seeing people pile into intensive care units. – Peter Hotez	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
There are numerous instances in which the social inequality of America may do violence to our notions of abstract justice, but the compromise of interests under which all civilized societies must exist, renders this unavoidable....If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves. The equality of of rights in America, therefore, after allowing for the striking exception of domestic slavery, is only a greater extension of the principles [that] there is no such thing as an equality of condition. – James Fenimore Cooper	added by anonymous 4 years ago
What is key here is the intentionality behind the burial. You might bury a body for purely practical reasons, in order to avoid attracting dangerous scavengers and/or to reduce the smell. But when this goes beyond practical elements it is important because that indicates more complex, symbolic and abstract thinking, compassion and care for the dead, and perhaps feelings of mourning and loss. – Emma Pomeroy	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
In any age, the so-called progressives treat politics as their religion. Their holy mission is to use the coercive power of the State to remake man and society in their own image, according to an abstract ideal of perfection. Whatever means they use are therefore justified because, by definition, they are a virtuous people pursing a deific end. They are willing to use any means necessary to gain momentary advantage in achieving their end, regardless of collateral consequences and the systemic implications. They never ask whether the actions they take could be justified as a general rule of conduct, equally applicable to all sides. – William Barr	added by Normando 4 years ago
Cash was the best way to teach financial literacy because it's so tangible and so easy to grasp, now money is being transferred through some kind of cyberspace, which is really abstract and hard for anyone to understand. – Philip Haglund	Found on CNN 4 years ago
When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	added by Normando 4 years ago
Go to any city in the United States and you will find people living in dump-like environments. These are real people, not an abstract, intellectual category. They are people with hopes and fears. And, quite frankly, many of them are not interested in discussions about economic determinism. They are interested in having a home, obtaining a job that does not pay starvation wages, getting their children educated, affording health care, enjoying some of the social goodies. Helping a poor family will not change societal patterns of inequality, but it will change the pattern of that family's life. And, when we get done helping that family we can pick up a book, voting ballot, or protest sign. – David Pilgrim	added by anonymous 4 years ago
Let's see socialism for what it is. Not in the abstract, but in reality. Socialism is: The taking of money (taxes) from some people who work for it and giving it to others who don't work for it. On a grand scale. The vast expansion of freebies doled out by central government. In order to create and sustain dependence. The government protection of favored persons and corporations, permitting them and aiding them to expand their fortunes without limit, regardless of what crimes they commit in the process. (Monsanto would be a fine example.) The squeezing out of those who would compete with the favored persons and corporations. The dictatorship by and for the very wealthy, pretending to be the servant of the masses. The lie that the dictatorship is being run by the masses. The gradual lowering of the standard of living for the overwhelming number of people. The propaganda claiming socialism is the path to a better world for all. In other words, socialism is a protection racket and a long con and a heartless system of elite control, posing as the greatest good. It is just another form of top-down tyranny as old as the hills. – Jon Rappoport	added by Normando 4 years ago
The civilian government is right now an abstract notion, it will emerge eventually but whether it can exercise power is a totally different story. – Magdi El Gizouli	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Frankly, every religious and non-religious moral tradition tells us that we have some responsibility of stewardship, some responsibility for taking care of what's around us and our neighbor, eventually it gets to the point this is less and less about the planet as an abstract thing and more about specific people suffering specific harm because of what we're doing right now. – Pete Buttigieg	Found on CNN 4 years ago

The equation is a portal through which the mind transcends the boundaries of the tangible, glimpsing the abstract landscapes of mathematical reality.

– Martin Tobias Lithner

added by huyenhuyen19921992
4 months ago

There has been a lot of negotiation and conversation among the states and with the Interior Department, but a lot of it’s been conceptual and abstract, putting things down on paper to give direction I think will meaningfully move the conversation.

– Tommy Beaudreau

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What fascinated me most is the fact that if you look at art from the 19th century, where conflict is depicted, it’s all very interesting and abstract. As a casual observer you might get the impression it wasn’t that bad, but this one particular skull with a massive facial trauma depicts for the first time how violent the age actually was.

– Rob Schäfer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Let's see socialism for what it is. Not in the abstract, but in reality. Socialism is: The taking of money (taxes) from some people who work for it and giving it to others who don't work for it. On a grand scale. The vast expansion of freebies doled out by central government. In order to create and sustain dependence. The government protection of favored persons and corporations, permitting them and aiding them to expand their fortunes without limit, regardless of what crimes they commit in the process. (Monsanto would be a fine example.) The squeezing out of those who would compete with the favored persons and corporations. The dictatorship by and for the very wealthy, pretending to be the servant of the masses. The lie that the dictatorship is being run by the masses. The gradual lowering of the standard of living for the overwhelming number of people. The propaganda claiming socialism is the path to a better world for all. In other words, socialism is a protection racket and a long con and a heartless system of elite control, posing as the greatest good. It is just another form of top-down tyranny---as old as the hills.

– Jon Rappoport

added by Normando
1 year ago

When we talk about time, it is not an abstract concept.

– Neda Sharghi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You can dehumanize people when they are just abstract concepts to you, affirmative action, voting rights — these are issues that you can depersonalize. But you can't depersonalize your cousin's husband at the barbecue who asks you to pass the ketchup. It's hard to dismiss or take a stance against love when it's in your face.

– Marjorie Funderburg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is not an abstract exercise, it's as real and as urgent as it gets.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One of the most striking( effects) is thinning of the gray matter of an area of the brain called the prefrontal cortex, it helps us to act appropriately. It gives us insight about ourselves and others. It gives us perspective. It allows us to do complex decision-making and to be able to have thoughtful, abstract reasoning rather than concrete or habitual responses.

– Amy Arnsten

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Abstract art involves complex layers and perspectives. To be distinct and hold a truly personalized view point, every element in the piece must be devised to be claimed as entirely mine. Meaning it's all based on sculpture, because most of what we know of photography involves capturing someone else's work, which I dislike.

– Adamo Macri

added by anonymous
2 years ago

The truth is that greenhouse gas emissions are abstract, and can be perceived as not impacting people's day-to-day lives and the people that they love, and so I think that our job here is to translate the science and the research and make it real for people and the things and people that they love.

– Gaurab Basu

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The kinds of people that are going to bring these lawsuits are the people my staff see every day, they scream at them on the way to work, they know their names, they know what car they drive, and so this isn't abstract to our clinic staff and physicians.

– Amy Hagstrom Miller

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When you look deeply into yourself you may be able to see that there is, in this moment, a quality of aliveness that is animating you that is not philosophical and is not abstract. It's independent of what you think about it, what you believe about it and what you feel about it. It's always there! it is animating your breath, It is coursing the spirit, it is what makes it possible for you to think and speak and see and hear. This is the invisible touch.

– Alexis karpouzos

added by anonymous
3 years ago

It may literally mean the difference between life and death. And that is not an abstract thing, it is quite literally the only way me, and others like me, have been able to survive without having any family support during this time.

– Veronica Bedico

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The' plan' was so much more powerful in the abstract than anything you could offer in the real world to counter it.

– Marc Ambinder

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It was just open it up and then more or less business as usual, with a little bit of window dressing, this is not an abstract number of cases. Were seeing people pile into intensive care units.

– Peter Hotez

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

There are numerous instances in which the social inequality of America may do violence to our notions of abstract justice, but the compromise of interests under which all civilized societies must exist, renders this unavoidable....If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves. The equality of of rights in America, therefore, after allowing for the striking exception of domestic slavery, is only a greater extension of the principles [that] there is no such thing as an equality of condition.

– James Fenimore Cooper

added by anonymous
4 years ago

What is key here is the intentionality behind the burial. You might bury a body for purely practical reasons, in order to avoid attracting dangerous scavengers and/or to reduce the smell. But when this goes beyond practical elements it is important because that indicates more complex, symbolic and abstract thinking, compassion and care for the dead, and perhaps feelings of mourning and loss.

– Emma Pomeroy

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

In any age, the so-called progressives treat politics as their religion. Their holy mission is to use the coercive power of the State to remake man and society in their own image, according to an abstract ideal of perfection. Whatever means they use are therefore justified because, by definition, they are a virtuous people pursing a deific end. They are willing to use any means necessary to gain momentary advantage in achieving their end, regardless of collateral consequences and the systemic implications. They never ask whether the actions they take could be justified as a general rule of conduct, equally applicable to all sides.

– William Barr

added by Normando
4 years ago

Cash was the best way to teach financial literacy because it's so tangible and so easy to grasp, now money is being transferred through some kind of cyberspace, which is really abstract and hard for anyone to understand.

– Philip Haglund

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.

– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

added by Normando
4 years ago

Go to any city in the United States and you will find people living in dump-like environments. These are real people, not an abstract, intellectual category. They are people with hopes and fears. And, quite frankly, many of them are not interested in discussions about economic determinism. They are interested in having a home, obtaining a job that does not pay starvation wages, getting their children educated, affording health care, enjoying some of the social goodies. Helping a poor family will not change societal patterns of inequality, but it will change the pattern of that family's life. And, when we get done helping that family we can pick up a book, voting ballot, or protest sign.

– David Pilgrim

added by anonymous
4 years ago

– Jon Rappoport

added by Normando
4 years ago

The civilian government is right now an abstract notion, it will emerge eventually but whether it can exercise power is a totally different story.

– Magdi El Gizouli

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Frankly, every religious and non-religious moral tradition tells us that we have some responsibility of stewardship, some responsibility for taking care of what's around us and our neighbor, eventually it gets to the point this is less and less about the planet as an abstract thing and more about specific people suffering specific harm because of what we're doing right now.

– Pete Buttigieg

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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