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. . . CONTEXT see: "MEANING" see "COMMUNICATION" for other related links - Whenever you tear an idea from it's context and treat it as if it were a self-sufficient, independent item, you invalidate the thought process involved. A context-dropper forgets or evades any wider context. He stares at only one element, and he thinks, 'I can change just this one point, and everything else will remain the same.' --Leonard Peikoff (1933— ) Canadian-born American philosopher. _The Philosophy of Objectivism_ - Context-dropping is one of the chief psychological tools of evasion. --Ayn Rand (1905—1982) Russian-born American writer. _The Virtue of Selfishness_ [1964] "I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose," said Tan-Chun. "If I told you how it went on, I should end up by contradicting myself!" --Ts'ao Chan [Pinyin Cao Zhan] (c.1715—1763) Chinese author. _Hung lou meng_ (Dream of the Red Chamber) ----- truncate (transitive verb) Forms: truncated; truncating 1 : to shorten by or as if by cutting off 2 : to replace (an edge or corner of a crystal) by a plane truncation: noun   CONTRADICTION . . see "COMMUNICATION" for related links When we risk no contradiction, It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction. --John Gay (1685—1732) English poet and dramatist. _Fables_, pt. 1 [1727], "The Elephant and the Bookseller" It was one of the rules which, above all others, made Doctor [Benjamin] Franklin the most amiable of men in society: never to contradict anybody. --Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826) American statesman and president [1801—1809]. In Dixon Wecter _The Hero in America: A Chronicle of Hero-Worship_ [1941]. There is an eagle in me that wants to soar and there is also a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud. --Carl Sandburg (1878—1967) American poet. Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) --Walt Whitman (1819—1892) American poet. "Song of Myself" st. 51 - "New Yorker" cartoon, publisher to author: "Come now, Mr Dickens; it must have been either the best of times or the worst of times. It could hardly have been both!" --- Look before you leap. He who hesitates is lost. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Don't beat your head against a stone wall. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Out of sight, out of mind. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Don't cross the bridge until you come to it. Haste makes waste. Time waits for no man. You're never too old to learn. You can't teach an old dog new tricks. A word to the wise is sufficient. Talk is cheap. It's better to be safe than sorry. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Nothing venture, nothing gain. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. Beware of Greeks bearing gifts. Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. Nice guys finish last. Many hands make light work. Too many cooks spoil the broth. Don't judge a book by its cover. Clothes make the man. The squeaking wheel gets the grease. Silence is golden. - Cleanliness is next to godliness. Cleanliness is next to impossible. --Charlie Brown, in "Peanuts" I looked in the dictionary. "Cleanliness" is *not* next to "godliness." "Cleanliness" is between "claustrophobia" and "cleavage." --George Carlin (1937—2008) American stand-up comedian and author. Cleanliness is next to godliness. Godliness is perfection. Perfection is impossible. Therefore, Cleanliness is next to impossible. - Seek and ye shall find. Curiosity killed the cat. Life is what we make it. What is to be will be. Faint heart never won fair lady. The meek shall inherit the Earth. Opposites attract. Birds of a feather flock together. ----- cavil (verb) ['kæ-vêl] To object on frivolous or petty grounds, to quibble. oxymoron (noun) [ahk-see-'mo-rahn] A phrase comprising two mutually contradictory words. Examples: a long brief, the living dead, freezer burn, near miss, old news, pretty ugly, alone together, almost exactly, half naked, jumbo shrimp, holy war, rap music.  CONTRARIANS . . Those who obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats. --François de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680) French classical author. _Maxims_ [1665] . . see "THE HUMAN RACE" for related links - For years the conventional wisdom in Washington said that getting rid of various welfare entitlements would result in our cities turning into new Calcuttas. It was accepted that there was nothing wrong with single motherhood. It was taken for granted that if you put people in huge public-housing complexes they will treat government-owned property with the same respect they'd treat their own. The beat droned on: The population bomb would force us to eat Soylent Green and live in dresser drawers. Global warming would melt the North Pole. From the racial bias of the SATs to the idea that gun control stops crime while prisons don't, to the always just- around-the corner triumph of the Japanese economic juggernaut, the conventional wisdom has been wrong — embarrassingly wrong, lose-all-of-your-money-at- the-track-and-wash windshields-in-the-parking-lot wrong. --Jonah Goldberg (1969— ) American conservative commentator and author. - end page | CALAMITIES - CALM | CALUMNY - CAMPAIGN FINANCING | CAMPAIGNS & CANADA | CANCER - CAN'T WIN | CAPITALISM | CAREFREE - CARPE DIEM | CARTER (JIMMY) - CATS & DOGS | CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES - CENSORSHIP | CERTAINTY - CHANGE | CHANGING (ONE'S MIND) & CHANGING TIMES | CHARACTER | CHARACTER ASSASINATION - CHEERFULNESS | CHEER UP! - CHILDHOOD | CHILDREN | CHILDREN'S RHYME | CHILE & CHINA | CHOCOLATE - CHRISTIANITY | CHRISTMAS | CHURCH - CIGARS | CIRCUMSTANCES & CITIES | CIVILITY - CIVIL RIGHTS | CLARITY - CLICHES | CLOTHES - COFFEE | COLD - COLORS | COMEDY | COMFORT - COMMON SENSE | COMMUNICATION | COMMUNISM | COMPANIONSHIP - COMPASSION | COMPETITION - COMPLIMENTS | COMPOSERS - CONDUCTORS | CONFESSION - CONQUEST | CONSCIENCE - CONTENTED | CONTEXT - CONVENTIONAL WISDOM | CONVERSATION | CONVICTION & COOKING | COOLIDGE - CORPORATIONS | CORRECTING - COURAGE | COURT - COWS | CREATIVITY - CRIME | CRIME & PUNISHMENT - CROOKS | CRITICISM & CRITICS | CROWD (THE) - CUBA | CULTURE - CYNICS | | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | Photos | |
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