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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat. Terence McKenna Abstraction 91
Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity. William Manchester Abstraction 84
By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction. John Dewey Abstraction 67
Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently. Nat Friedman Abstraction 67
The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense. Jean Piaget Abstraction 60
Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves. Dag Hammarskjold Abstraction 54
On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects. Jean Piaget Abstraction 51
An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him. Marshall McLuhan Abstraction 44
War is an abstraction. Bruce Jackson Abstraction 42
The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction. Gabriel Marcel Abstraction 41
We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction. Max Bill Abstraction 40
Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions. Jean Piaget Abstraction 26
Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world. Oliver Joseph Lodge Abstraction 23

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