#explicit

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself. ↗

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

#does #explicit #field #himself #inhabit

We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member, the vote-counting became a secondary consideration. ↗

— John Negroponte

#been #believe #close #consideration #explicit

Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law. ↗

— Gary North

#because #blessings #cannot #come #denied

What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself. ↗

— Karl Rahner

#body #christ #explicit #expression #gives

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#explicit #hope #lover #refusal #seldom

With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to see, even though it can be seen by other people all over the world. I suppose you could call it a political statement. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#american #american citizens #call #censors #citizens

When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#computers #developing #development #explicitly #free

The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution. ↗

— Robert Bork

#explicitly #guaranteed #implicitly #procreate #right

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#explicit #human #models #moral #more

Gotten butt-ass, bone-dog naked for your vadge-cam?" Dante offered with an angelic smile, standing close. "Fucking hell, D." Griff turned to Beth with an apology, but she spoke first. "Huh-yeah. Thanks, cockbreath. ↗

— Damon Suede

#gay-romance #humor #humor