Contexts Quotes

When (Pryor) took the 'N' word and repeated it in so many contexts and made you laugh at it so much, by the end he had drained that word of its power to sting and hurt. - Harry Shearer

What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago. - David Baltimore

We need to say what sorts of Internet use are good for what kinds of children living in what kinds of contexts. - Linda Jackson

This building has legs and it wants to have conversations in different cultural contexts and cities. This is almost like a pirate ship that's arrived ashore. - Gregory Colbert

There is a trap in there somewhere, with the specialty divisions working in bigger and bigger contexts, trying to get bigger numbers. - Ira Deutchman

The ''text'' is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic. - Leslie Fiedler

The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent otherworldly being, in Deo, where I call it the Absolute Infinite or simply Absolute; second when it occurs in the contingent, created world; third when the mind grasps it in abstracto as a mathematical magnitude, number or order type. - Georg Cantor

Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen. - Paul Ricoeur

Similar legitimate law enforcement tactics are crucial in violent crime, terrorism and other contexts. - Ted Olson

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner. - Paul Ricoeur