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Tag Name "Plural" (46)

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Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other
Paul Ricoeur
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The plural on anecdote is not evidence
Michael Mauboussin
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Cut off my head, and singular I am, Cut off my tail, and plural I appear Although my middle's left, there's nothing there! What is my head cut off? A sounding sea What is my tail cut off? A rushing river And in their mingling depths I fearless play, Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.
Thomas B. Macaulay
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If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.
Henry Mintzberg
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Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
Hannah Arendt
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In 1835 at Kirtland I learned from my Sisters Husband Lyman R. Shirman, who was close to the Prophet and Received it from him. That the ancient order of plural marriage was again to be practiced by the Church.
Benjamin F. Johnson
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Individuals are fine once you get to know them, especially if they're interesting in conversation or have large, sumptuous breasts, but I don't like people in the plural and I've seen very little to change my mind about that.
Yahtzee Croshaw
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Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.
John Derbyshire
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We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.
Earl Warren
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...The plural of elf is elves! What a language! What a world!
Nicole Krauss
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chaos: it has no plural.
Carlos Fuentes
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I do not think you can push public expenditure significantly above 60 per cent and maintain the values of a plural society with adequate freedom of choice. We are here close to one of the frontiers of social democracy.
Roy Jenkins
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George Smith shows how many of the prophet’s followers embraced plural marriage during a period when the LDS Church was emphatically denying the practice … [and he tells this in] a lucid writing style.
Daniel Walker Howe
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.
Janis Joplin
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Media, the plural of mediocrity.
Jimmy Breslin
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It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on.
Lewis Thomas
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The plural of spouse is spice.
Christopher Morley
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What did he mean by society? The plural of human beings?
Osamu Dazai
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Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by living? They don’t mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives.
e. e. cummings
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Like a work of art, we exceed our materials. Science needs art to frame the mystery, but art needs science so that not everything is a mystery. Neither truth alone is our solution, for our reality exists in plural
Jonah Lehrer
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World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural.
Louis MacNeice
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I had to find a way to speak without ever saying the 'you' plural.
Susanne Wuest
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