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- Nov 07, 2020
Exhaustive Quotes
When thoroughness helps, and when it doesn't
These quotes examine what it means to give an exhaustive account, whether of a historical period or a creative art form.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Lighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
A museum's meticulous presentation - exhaustive captions, hushed lighting, state-of-the-art armature - creates an institutional authority that is constructed to seem impregnable.
- Far Less
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- Nov 07, 2020
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.
- Chaplin
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their entire audience. Both were proclaimed revolutionaries for their early work and subjected to exhaustive attack when later works were thought to be inferior. Both developed their art without so much as a nodding glance toward their peers.
- Promises
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a calculus, it turns out, for mastering our subconscious urges. For companies like Target, the exhaustive rendering of our conscious and unconscious patterns into data sets and algorithms has revolutionized what they know about us and, therefore, how precisely they can sell.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020