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When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.


Andrew Coyle Bradley


#anxiety #await #begins #curiosity #entrance

The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.


Morris Raphael Cohen


#arrive #concern #conclusions #exposition #follow

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.


G. H. Hardy


#criticism #explain #exposition #justifiable #make

In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.


Barbara Jordan


#could #democratic #democratic party #enough #exposition

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.


John Searle


#concerned #exposition #follow #i #maxim

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.


William Butler Yeats


#best #best part #end #exposition #lean

Whilst we are in the body, we need a change even in spiritual things; and this change the Lord has graciously provided in the great variety which is to be found in His word.


George Mueller


#variety #word-of-god #change

Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.


Hugo Gernsback


#exposition #fiction #first #must #place

Consecutive reading of biblical books forces everyone who wants to hear to put himself, or to allow himself to be found, where God has acted once and for all for the salvation of men.


Dietrich Bonhoeffer


#god-s-word #faith

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.


A. R. Ammons


#besides #class #differs #discourse #everything






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