#texts

I've always been a composer dependent on texts. ↗

— David Del Tredici

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Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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I've done many different movies in many different contexts. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

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What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

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Tyrants seldom want pretexts. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

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They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method. ↗

— Alan Dundes

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There's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Qur'an, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bible, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bhaghavad Gita, or of the Book of Mormon, or of the other sacred texts of many of those religions. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

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Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

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Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

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