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Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Programme reports 'clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.

System Climate Change Abstract
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Abstract Start Trace Reality
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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Abstract Famous Independent Intensity
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Abstract Beauty Future Past
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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.

Abstraction Across Barely Earth
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I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.

Abstract Change Get Less
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I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

Abstract Been European Expressionism
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Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking.
Abstract Based Dangerous Laws
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Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.

Able Abstract Alone Being
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The way in which people talk about climate is just so wonky and so abstract and such a boys' club that it makes a lot of women just roll their eyes or feel that they are somehow not qualified. I certainly had to fight that feeling in myself in order to write about it.

About Abstract Boy Certainly
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Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.

Abstract Attempts Escape Essential
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I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

Abstraction Beauty Believe Change
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The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.

Free Soul Abstract Painting
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Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

Delight Understand Abstract System
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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.

Hate women Abstract way Never learns
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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

Dancing Moving Most beautiful Arts
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The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge.

Abstract Activity Birth Course
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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Abstraction Direct Direct Experience Experience
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Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.

Beauty Balance Dimensions Abstraction
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

Abstract Any Back Beginning
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I attended seminars where many social issues were discussed abstractly, outside the pressures of an immediate situation, and there I developed certain attitudes which permitted me to face the real thing when it came along.

Along Attended Attitudes Came
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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.

Happiness Abstraction Imagination
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I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.

An abstractionist Not interested Relationship Human emotions
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The abstract artist has given material existence to many unseen worlds and tempi.

Abstract artist Material existence Unseen worlds
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A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?

Live body Dead body Same number Structurally
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Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

Commitment Word Invented Motives
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The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

Real life Collective life The race No existence
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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Each department Knowledge Passes through Three stages
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The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious: the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive.

The law Leading conceptions Our knowledge Passes successively
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Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved.

Time Abstraction Exists Human
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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Is terrible Destroy Person's picture The interest
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The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

Form Clear Direct Appeal
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It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all

Nature Abstract Hidden Nowhere
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Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.

Reflective Abstraction Individual Actions
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Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

Wisdom Fact Reality Manner
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Life is a process which may be abstracted from other media.

Life Process Abstracted Media
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Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

Nobody Seeking truth
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