#context

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

#contexts #historical #legal #limited #philosophical

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#memory #men

I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey. ↗

— John Eaton

#context #convey #departure #express #expressive

Agriculture must mediate between nature and the human community, with ties and obligations in both directions. To farm well requires an elaborate courtesy toward all creatures, animate and inanimate. It is sympathy that most appropriately enlarges the context of human work. Contexts become wrong by being too small - too small, that is, to contain the scientist or the farmer or the farm family or the local ecosystem or the local community - and this is crucial. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#community #context #husbandry #family

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

I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's taken me years to put him into context historically and really get what he did. ↗

— Marc Maron

#also #big #bruce #college #context

I've come to understand my role. On some level, I provide the context for them to shine. I also know my role is the steward of the songs, and the center point, the artist that the stuff all revolves around. But I really try to honor that. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#around #artist #center #come #context

Within the E.U., in a wider context, people are increasingly recognising the need to prevent the abuse of free movement. ↗

— Theresa May

#context #free #increasingly #movement #need

In the context of September 11, there were so many that lost their lives that - how do you single out one person? There were so many acts of heroism that day from so many people, whether it be firemen and police officers in New York and our agents also. ↗

— Robert Mueller

#agents #also #context #day #firemen

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#context #everything #historical #important #interest