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The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.

~Eugene H. Peterson

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Living in Beijing, writing about politically sensitive things now and then, you get used to the idea that somebody, somewhere, might be watching. But it is usually an abstract threat.

~Evan Osnos

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Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.

~Ezekiel Emanuel

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I finished up my graduate degree in quantum mechanics, but underwent a bit of a personal crisis, recognizing that I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life. It was too abstract, too far removed from human concerns.

~Francis Collins

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Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings.

~Frank Stella

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I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.

~Frank Stella

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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.

~Garry Wills

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Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

~Georg C. Lichtenberg

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To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind.

~George Edward Woodberry

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Abstract sympathy with the working class as an economic entity is easy, but the feeling can vanish on contact with actual members of the group, who often arrive with disturbing beliefs and powerful resentments - who might not sound or look like people urban progressives want to know.

~George Packer

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