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• Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Boredom, Enemy

  "The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich". Book by Tim Ferriss, 2007.

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• Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality for all the world's people

  Kofi Annan

  Future, Reality, Ideas

  "Annan pleads with west as environment is pushed up UN agenda". www.theguardian.com.

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• I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.

  Piet Mondrian

  Wish, Quality, Fundamentals

  Piet Mondrian (1971). “Piet Mondrian, 1872-1944: Centennial Exhibition: Held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York”

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• People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably helpful to security.

  James Gosling

  Reality, Thinking, People

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• Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.

  Eric Maisel

  Language, Abstraction

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• Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Mean, Class, Pacifism

  "The Conference of the R.S.D.L.P. Groups Abroad". Sotsial-Demokrat, No. 40, March 29, 1915. Collected Works, Volume 21, pp. 158 - 164,

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• The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.

  Roger Scruton

  Anarchy, Intellect, Unreal

  Roger Scruton (2015). “Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.

  Daniel Tammet

  Motivation, Inspiration, Shapes

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• All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.

  Milford Zornes

  Art, Art Is, Abstraction

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• No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents.

  Edward Said

  Ideas, Causes, Mass

  Edward W. Said (2007). “From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map: Essays”, p.117, Vintage

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• We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition.

  Asger Jorn

  Art, Talking, Cognition

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• All good art is abstract.

  John Newman

  Art, Art Is, Good Art

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• Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Law, Justice

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• Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.

  David Lynch

  Insanity, Tenderness

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• Politicians of all stripes are always in danger at looking at every problem from an abstract point of view or being briefed by officials, academics, or economists who know every science but the science of human nature.

  Jean Chretien

  Views, Stripes, Problem

  Jean Chretien (2010). “My Years as Prime Minister”, p.238, Vintage Canada

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• There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder!

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Roots, Evil, Goes On

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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• Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical....music is under two signs, the stars and the wine

  Edgard Varese

  Art, Stars, Wine

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• The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a totally abstract thing.

  Helene Grimaud

  Pieces, Way, Interpretation

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.

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• The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.

  Barack Obama

  Errors, Government, Doubt

  "'Most Transparent Administration Ever' Is Still Not" by Erika Eichelberger, www.motherjones.com. February 7, 2013.

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• America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of a faithlike devotion, unencumbered by honest history.

  Michael Parenti

  America, Flags, Honest

  Michael Parenti (2004). “Superpatriotism”, p.9, City Lights Books

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• But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Eye, Men

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• She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male.

  James Joyce

  Husband, Small Numbers, Office

  James Joyce (2015). “Dubliners: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.101, 谷月社

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• To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Essence, Matter

  Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.63, Harvard University Press

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• One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

  Robert Motherwell

  Art, Appearance, Abstract Art

  "The Writings of Robert Motherwell".

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• Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.

  Willem de Kooning

  Form, Abstraction

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