#emphasis

But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#arrangement #artificially #broken #could #emphasis

My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#comic #comic books #emphasis #family #games

Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary structures have a built-in safety factor for the vertical component; that is, gravity. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#built-in #component #emphasis #factor #gravity

No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#characters #chekhov #created #emphasis #less

It is much the best way... to lay the emphasis on the first part of the bar in triple time, and on the first and third parts of the bar in common time. ↗

— William Billings

#best #best way #common #emphasis #first

Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail. ↗

— Bram Cohen

#changing #despite #emphasis #even #evil

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#enforcement #i #law #little #more

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything. ↗

— Rick Warren

#compassion #disagree #emphasis #equality #everything

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#command #emphasis #food #gave #great

Putting together a counter- terrorism policy, it's very easy to look at law enforcement or defense, military action or stopping the money flows or whatever, but the really difficult part is integrating all aspects of the policy, and I think she put a lot of emphasis on that. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#aspects #defense #difficult #easy #emphasis