Quotes About Context

Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters.

If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.

Globalization requires taking a broad contextual and long-term view.

We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.

I hate the phrase 'No pun intended.' It's pointless.

Although I doubt He [Jesus] said "believeth" as He was Jewish and not a fancy-pants English fellow.

Movie Jesus is a whole lot different from Bible Jesus

Is it for fuck's sake or for fuck sakes?" she asked the room. "It's a work email, so it has to sound professional.

Molly was arrested. Possession." I blinked at him. "She was possessed?

There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.

A wonderful place, the mind, but if it has any kind of disappointing failure, it's that it always attempts to put new things into the context of things which are already familiar to it.

He was wrong, that doesn't make him a villian. That makes him an asshole.

I think that you're dealing with a deity, or at least a demigod." "Jesus," I said. "No, this guy is Finnish, not Jewish," Bob said seriously.

The house wasn't large, by the neighborhood's standards, but that was like saying that a bale of hay isn't much to eat, by elephant standards.

History is context.

Please! yelled Loki. I am not being noble!

Kid says to me, You play baseball? What position? Left out? and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only one person out of 6.792 billion humans on this planet. This planet is only one-eighth of the solar system, whose sun is one of two billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Put it that way, the comment loses it's importance.

A quotation in the right place at the right time is like water in a desert.

He (Bugliosi) took bits and pieces out of context and presented my views and opinions in a much distorted and unrecognizable fashion." -- Dr. Cyril Wecht, forensic pathologist and former president of both the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the American College of Legal Medicine

every sermon must be biblical in its contents – it must completely agree with the Bible, and every biblical passage must be interpreted in context.

nothing to do with birth, with choice, or with freedom. The Christian's definition of sin has to do with God's command. If God says something is wrong, then it is wrong to do it, regardless of the context or choice, and regardless of freedom.

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