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In many contexts, simplicity is not an aesthetic frill. -- Elliott Sober
Context overrides. In different contexts, cells do different things. -- Mina Bissell
I've done many different movies in many different contexts. -- Antonio Banderas
The real hallmark of learning is transferring what you've learned into new contexts. -- Eric Mazur
More often than not, media coverage now mentions HIV-positive people in criminal contexts. -- Sean Strub
We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts. -- Jay Maisel
Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best. -- Peter Thiel
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Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum. -- Rowan Williams
I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities. -- Andrew Sullivan
The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh. -- Frans de Waal
I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts. -- Jonathan Lethem
The Monkees are to the Beatles what 'Star Trek' is to NASA. They are both totally valid in their contexts. -- Micky Dolenz
To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts. -- Hans-Ulrich Obrist
It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question. -- Warren Christopher
When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition. -- Maxine Hong Kingston
To toy with something is to manipulate it, to try it out within sets of contexts none of which is determinate. -- Susan Stewart
Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. -- Kenneth L. Pike
The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams. -- Paul Shepard
Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. -- Kenneth L. Pike
I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts. -- Cornel West
I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not. -- Sandra Cisneros
People can't help what topics cut them deep. It all depends on who's inferring - and what the contexts of their lives are at the time. -- Sarah Silverman
Everyday life became infused with urgency as I tried to speak and act in ways that fit the holy script and glorified God in new contexts. -- Kevin Vanhoozer
I'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts. -- Alan Moore
To think, it seems to me, is to hold an idea long enough to unlock and shape its power in the varied contexts of shared human knowledge. -- Vera John-Steiner
I'm trying to be somebody on whom the experience is lost by supplanting it with its telling. I definitely do that in medical contexts, even in trivial ones. -- Ben Lerner
Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner. -- Paul Ricoeur
The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it. -- George W. S. Trow
I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like. -- Barbara Kruger
Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen. -- Paul Ricoeur
To dismiss basic contexts such as link colours, page layouts, navigation systems, and visual hierarchy as 'boring' or 'pedestrian' is akin to laughing at a car's steering wheel as unimaginative. -- Jeffrey Veen
The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic. -- Leslie Fiedler
In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words. -- Aldous Huxley
American cities are kind of difficult contexts to work in. They are politically complex. There are a lot of different interest groups. It takes immense political skill to get anything done at all. -- William J. Mitchell
There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the contexts in which he prefers to use certain words. -- Owen Barfield
I think about art a lot only in two contexts. One is narrative.The other thing that I'm interested in, which is tangential, but not unrelated... All art to me is about problem solving. -- Steven Soderbergh
I suppose it's fair to say that I am interested in the invention of self or selves. We're all born into certain circumstances with particular physical traits, unique developmental experiences, geographical and historical contexts. -- Sarah Jones
This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the brain works but in broader contexts in biology and even physics. -- George F. R. Ellis
I feel like these sounds are the ultimate kind of free sounds, the ultimate public domain sounds. And I feel like people put them in completely different contexts, and they mean something different to everybody. -- Julia Kent
The Aga Khan Awards for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms. This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations. -- Aga Khan IV

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