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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life. ↗

— Theodor Svedberg

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My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me. ↗

— Luc Ferrari

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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

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I want to attract the best people into teaching. ↗

— Charles Schumer

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The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

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I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out there. ↗

— Demetri Martin

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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions. ↗

— Berthold Auerbach

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Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village. ↗

— John George Nicolay

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