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“The birth of a new fact is always a wonderful thing to experience. It's dualistically called a "discovery" because of the presumption that it has an existence independent of anyone's awareness of it. When it comes along, it always has, at first, a low value. Then, depending on the value-looseness of the observer and the potential quality of the fact, its value increases, either slowly or rapidly, or the value wanes and the fact disappears.”

Firsts Facts Values Existence Quality Wonderful Awareness Birth Lows Discovery Increase Independent Disappear Wonderful Things Observers Presumption Looseness

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“I question if Epicurus and Hume have done mankind a greater service by the looseness of their doctrines than by the purity of their lives. Of such men we may more justly exclaim, than of Caesar, "Confound their virtues, they've undone the world!”

Ifs Men World May Done Virtue Greater Mankind Example Doctrine Purity Undone Hume Looseness

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“The novella is at once the most elegant and demanding form: a writer must balance the looseness of a novel with the concision of a short story, a feat that only the bravest and most talented of us can manage. In Brazil, Jesse Lee Kercheval proves, yet again, that she is exactly the right writer for the job. A wild American picaresque, Brazil snaps along briskly, yet feels full-fleshed, and brims with a sly wit and grace.”

Feels Stories Jobs Form Novel Grace Balance Prove Wit Manage Short Story Elegant Snaps Brazil Feats Sly Looseness Picaresque

Author:Lauren Groff

“By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.”

Way Writing Emotional Vehicle Magnificent Defining Suggesting Looseness

Book:And Even Now

Source: And Even Now

“[The notion of equilibrium] is a notion which can be employed usefully in varying degrees of looseness. It is an absolutely indispensable part of the toolbag of the economist and one which he can often contribute usefully to other sciences which are occasionally apt to get lost in the trackless exfoliations of purely dynamic systems.”

Lost Degrees Notion Indispensable Economist Employed Equilibrium Looseness

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our world. If schools of journalism knew their business, they would graduate no one who could not render the Greek poets.”

Ifs World Way Mind School Poet Journalism Excellent Greek Our World Graduates Translations Exaggeration Drills Looseness

Book:Ideas Have Consequences

Source: Ideas Have Consequences

“All our words from loose using have lost their edge.”

Writing Literature Lost Edges Afternoon Our Words Looseness

Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“My style is a little masculine, and what I loved about Pyer Moss was how well he can make a blazer, the looseness of those pants, or color palette that he chooses from season to season.”

Wells Littles Style Color Seasons Pants Masculine Moss Palette Blazers Looseness

Author:Erykah Badu

“Brian Posehn went up at 4:45 in the morning. And he gets lost at a certain point. I don't know if we kept him getting lost on the CD. That joke isn't as technically well delivered as I'm sure it is in his Comedy Central special. But the whole disk has this looseness and flavor to it where anything can happen that a lot of people will prefer.”

People Ifs Knows Wells Whole Happens Certain Lost Morning Comedy Special Jokes Flavor Cds Brian Anything Can Happen Getting Lost Disk Looseness

Author:B. J. Porter

“It's fun to be loose. Just like on stage, all of your great ideas come from looseness.”

Ideas Fun Stage Great Idea Looseness

Author:Debra Winger

“A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.”

Ifs Would Be Truth Action Christian Religious Saws Dog Masters Truth Is Silent Christian Inspirational Coward Trust In God Commitment To God Bark Servant Of God If There Is A God Looseness

Author:John Calvin

“However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.”

Wish Blessing Infinite Our Thoughts Exceed Liberality Many Blessings Looseness

Author:John Calvin

“No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.”

Men Calling Salvation Gates Entering Godly Unbelief Excluded Looseness

Book:John Calvin: Selections from His Writings

Source: John Calvin: Selections from His Writings

“All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.”

Should Christian Religion Enjoy Prayer Conditions Divine Trust Blessing Benefits Committed Neighbor Deposits Looseness

Book:Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 1: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French

Source: Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 1: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French

“I believe in looseness.”

Believe I Believe I Believe In Looseness

Author:Willie Nelson

“When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It's all melody to me.”

Way Art Comedy Beats Jokes Jazz Notes Melody High Notes Looseness

Author:Billy Crystal

“Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.”

Writing Language Areas Looseness Disorganization

Author:Wilson Follett

“I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.”

Want Feelings Sex Grief Terrible Mess Hips Knees Heat Confusing Fists Trembling Thighs Looseness Diarrhoea

Book:The Gathering

Source: The Gathering

“I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.”

Defects Bowels Looseness

Book:The Bondage and Liberation of the Will (Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought): A Defence of the Orthodox Doctrine of Human Choice against Pighius

Source: The Bondage and Liberation of the Will (Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought): A Defence of the Orthodox Doctrine of Human Choice against Pighius

“Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.”

Lying Morality Extremes Impulse Sanity Conventional Inhibitions Looseness

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.”

Nature Encouragement Errors Pardon Looseness

Book:The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and biographical sketches

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and biographical sketches

“"Best in the world," "lowest price in existence, " etc are at best claiming the expected. But superlative of that sort are usually damaging. They suggestion looseness of expression, a tendency to exaggerate, a careless truth. They lead readers to discount all the statements that you make”

World Writing Existence Expression Reader Expected Statements Tendencies Etc Suggestions Lowest Careless Discounts Superlatives Looseness

Author:Claude C. Hopkins

“I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.”

Thinking Knows Used Order Precision Recycling Bohemian Looseness

Author:Conrad Veidt

“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.”

Poetry Emotion Poet Personality Poetry Is Literary Criticism American Poetry Poetry By Famous Poets Poetry By Poets Looseness Individual Talent

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.”

Knows Want Mean Art Poetry Courses Emotion Poet Expression Personality Poetry Is Literary Criticism Poetry By Famous Poets Poetry By Poets Looseness Individual Talent What Is Poetry Expressing Emotions

Author:T. S. Eliot

“I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how loose it was and how much fun it was in its looseness. And I was influenced a lot by that.”

Fun Saws Pioneers Mtv Looseness

Author:Daryl Hall

“Yeah, Vegas is the number one place to go. Vegas is Sin City. It really gives you a feeling of looseness and anything can go.”

Giving Feelings Sin Numbers Cities Yeah Vegas Places To Go Sin City Looseness

Author:James Belushi