#pure

The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#artistic #atlantic #between #central #economic

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#christian #humanist #humanitarianism #more #movement

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#desire #i #i do #i think #idioms

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#creatures #god #greatest #his #love

Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#doing #embarrassing #harm #individual #institutions

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#all things #deceitful #deliver #desperately #excellent

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#compelling #exercise #force #game #internal

For me, the summer will be pure gray - mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big statement for summer. Then we have light blue, light turquoise, lots of pink. ↗

— Gianni Versace

#blue #gray #light #lots #me

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics. ↗

— Howard Fineman

#does #exist #objective #politics #purely

Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition. ↗

— Charles Vest

#amount #award #best #cannot #changes