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For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything. -- Kenneth Noland
If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context. -- Wilhelm Dilthey
Within the context of listening and understanding and walking with people together, we discover anew what were the teachings of Jesus, what he presented to us. -- Joseph Edward Kurtz
The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for properly understanding the Bible in its context. -- Troy Perry
I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities are places with enormously distributed authority and many different sorts of constituencies, all of whom have a stake in that institution. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
The term 'cyberutopian' tends to be used only in the context of critique. Calling someone a cyberutopian implies that he or she has an unrealistic and naively overinflated sense of what technology makes possible and an insufficient understanding of the forces that govern societies. -- Ethan Zuckerman
My motivation is to get a deeper understanding and exploration of something that I want to know about the human condition. So, that's what I look for in the material I read: if it's asking a genuine question about a concept of the world that interests me. And also, it helps if it's a context that I find interesting. -- Rose McIver
The critic has to do more of what the book critics and art critics have done in the past. Which is give you a context for understanding the restaurant, give you a better way to appreciate it, give you the tools to go in there and be a more informed diner who can get more pleasure out of the experience. -- Ruth Reichl
In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble. -- Jon Ronson
One of the real challenges, since we're working in so many places - Mexico, Japan, Brazil - is understanding variations, both in terms of culture and context. -- Richard Meier
I don't believe that there is fair enough understanding of either our status as women or the total context of our lives, which is very rich and multi-faceted. -- Queen Rania of Jordan

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