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#literal sense

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.


Karl Marx


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Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.


Toni Morrison


#his #literal #literal sense #mandela #me

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.


John Searle


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Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.


Nate Silver


#almost #american #american economy #between #chaos

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.


Theodor Adorno


#existence #literal #literal sense #most #only

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.


Noam Chomsky


#along #been #decent #evolution #freedom

Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense - names of familiar figures around the house.


Jacques Barzun


#duchamp #familiar #figures #house #household






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