Quotes About Context

But the point is: history is everywhere. It's about making people realise that. It makes you understand a place.

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Russiagate happened in an opposite context. If the story fell apart it would benefit Donald Trump politically, a fact that made a number of reporters queasy about coming forward. #Russiagate became synonymous with #Resistance, which made public skepticism a complicated proposition.

No morality can be established a priori. Insofar as there are only abstract ends, there is no real morality. A moral imperative only emerges in contact with a situation.

What's a level? It's a typical activity, it's the universal context of an action in the world. Perceptual consciousness often consists in noticing divergence in relation to a level, and this divergence is the sense which is thus configuration or structure. This sense is less possessed than it is practiced: perhaps it can't be defined, but every aberrant fact is lived as deviation in relation to it. Thus perception adjusts imperfect circles, goes toward good forms.

It is the duty and privilege of historians to deploy relativism in a fashion that cannot be expected of contemporary participants.

The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.

Mt. Everest of Earth is 8.8 km tall; Mt. Olympus of Mars is 22 km tall. Every time you see a giant, you must know that that giant might be just a dwarf somewhere else!

A lot of people don't realize that without a valley, there is no peak. Without information, there is no joke. You've got to set things up.

It's like geographical humor. You just don't get it unless you were there.

That was the thing about pictures--they were worth a thousand words, but sometimes they weren't the right ones.

Silence is golden when it's called for. Silence can be deadly when it's not called for

human beings are able to attend to issues longer, to think harder about them, to receive deeper impressions that last longer, if information is presented in a context of emotion--a sort of hot dressing--than if it is presented wholly without affect.

the great thing about graphic design is that it is almost always about something else.

Literal interpretation without context is not only dangerous but contrary to what the Bible teaches.

Match Strategy to Situation

We should beware of the errors of judging eras and places according to the prevailing standards of here and now.

Once you cross a certain threshold, money doesn't get you more happiness. Our main concern is that if you have growth which is blind, fed by people's growing consumption, it's not really sustainable. What we are trying to do in our own little context is see what pattern of growth will be sustainable and desirable." Fellow Traveler The secretary introduces me to another government minister, a fortyish gentleman who has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

by "responsible" I mean theologically responsible, which entails paying attention to the book's original historical and literary contexts, its relationship to the rest of Scripture, its relationship to Christian doctrine and practice, and its potential to help or harm people in their life of faith.

However, once you realize the answer to most questions is, "It depends," you are ready to embark on the quest to figure out what it depends on.

Further, the size of the sample you take and the length of time over which you measure are essential elements of making a prediction. And of course, you have to be using valid data. So it's important to balance the statistics and the context.

The first diagram that you need on any project is a context diagram.

most software- or systems-development projects start out without a context diagram, blissfully unaware that they need one.

we make the mistake of viewing history through modern eyes. Instead, it must be evaluated with an open mind. We must take into account the fears and superstitions of the times, for they are critical to understanding the people and their motivations.