#context

Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career. ↗

— Jack Abramoff

#assaulting #been #career #context #e-mails

What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve. ↗

— Tom Brokaw

#coherent #context #day #deserve #end

In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a natural order. ↗

— Walter Rudolf Hess

#being #changes #context #energy #fact

In the political context fair means somebody that will vote for the unions or for the business. It can't mean that in the judicial context or we're in real trouble. ↗

— Anthony Kennedy

#context #fair #judicial #mean #means

I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet. ↗

— Walter Martin

#categorizing #context #ellen #false #i

It follows that the one thing we should not do to the men and women of past time, and particularly if they ghost through to us as larger than life, is to take them out of their historical contexts. To do so is to run the risk of turning them into monsters, whom we can denounce for our (frequently political) motives—an insidious game, because we are condemning in their make-up that which is likely to belong to a whole social world, the world that helped to fashion them and that is deviously reflected or distorted in them. Censure of this sort is the work of petty moralists and propagandists, not historians (p. 5). ↗

— Lauro Martines

#context #historians #history #memory #moralists

The Tyr had tried. It had really tried. It must have gone over every element of human psychology, tried desperately to understand the nature of human aesthetic sense … and then failed, miserably, in every regard. ↗

— C.S. Friedman

#irony #scifi #nature

Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters. ↗

— Will Arnett

#context #families #know #pretty #these

Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#chaplin #cinema #context #elevated #extraordinary

All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#back #conditions #consciousness #context #derives