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It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before. Douglas Trumbull Abstract 311
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. Joseph Stalin Abstract 150
I do not see scales as abstract. James Galway Abstract 88
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short. Clive James Abstract 88
To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events. Teresa de Lauretis Abstract 85
We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually. Rahm Emanuel Abstract 82
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals. Kenneth Clark Abstract 78
Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract. Leo Ornstein Abstract 76
The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat. Howard Berman Abstract 76
Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself. Julia Stiles Abstract 70
It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television. Atom Egoyan Abstract 69
Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces? Auberon Herbert Abstract 68
The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies which producers cannot invade, they trade us like cattle, boss us like children. Teresa Wright Abstract 66
When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God. Kenneth L. Pike Abstract 58
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men. George Ripley Abstract 57
The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control. Michael Ignatieff Abstract 57
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes. E. T. Bell Abstract 56
I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism. Barbara Hepworth Abstract 55
I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise. Pam Gems Abstract 53
I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can. Virgil Thomson Abstract 52
Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past. James G. Frazer Abstract 51
Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising. David Ogilvy Abstract 50
The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being. James G. Frazer Abstract 50
The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time. James J. Gibson Abstract 31
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. Theodor Adorno Abstract 28
Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities. Tom G. Palmer Abstract 27

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