#central

To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#cannot #central #criterion #first #know

The central problem of novel-writing is causality. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#central #problem

Like my colleague, I represent a large Assyrian community in central California, one of the largest concentrations of Assyrian Americans anywhere in the United States. ↗

— Dennis Cardoza

#california #central #colleague #community #concentrations

I don't think I've been too optimistic. The government believes the contraction will be around 1.5 per cent, as the central bank said. However, we're waiting to see the Commission estimate. ↗

— Luis de Guindos

#bank #been #believes #cent #central

It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#been #both #central #coasts #containing

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing. ↗

— Alan Paton

#central #concern #issues #novel #publishing

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#discontinuity #fluidity #live #reality #which

Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads. ↗

— David Boies

#allow #central #classified #data #going

We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#bureaucratic #bureaucrats #centralized #crossroads #define

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language. ↗

— Roman Jakobson

#central #even #language #made #meaning