- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Framed Quotes
How something gets framed shapes how it's seen.
This collection of framed quotes explores careful wording, constitutional boundaries, and personal identity shaped by circumstance. See our Dark quotes for related reflections.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
Discussions of the economy, especially during times of crisis, are often framed in terms of lessons we supposedly learned during the Depression of the 1930s. If we are not to endure terrible times like those again, we are told, we must support whatever form of state intervention is currently being peddled.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
- Award
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was traditional to not actually cash the prizes that Erdos did award while he was alive. People usually framed the cheque instead.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked at this place called Water World; it was a waterslide park. My brother and my dad framed my first paycheck from this place - which was for $0.00 dollars - because I didn't even make enough to cover the cost of my uniform!
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never allowed writer's block to be a reality. I framed it up for myself early on. I said, 'OK, if I'm not writing, the well is just filling up. I'm going to be patient with this.'
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.
- Fueled
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money has always been framed as a public good, one that must be stewarded by governments, when in fact, it is a private enterprise like any other which is fueled by personal agendas, regulation, and the quest for geopolitical hegemony.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.
- Gatekeepers
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a handful of tech giants are gatekeepers to the world's data, it's no surprise that the debate about balancing progress against privacy is framed as 'pro-data and, therefore, innovation' versus 'stuck in the Dark Ages'.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first publication was a haiku in a children's magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dollar for it! I gave the check to my dad for Christmas, and he framed it and hung it over his desk.
- Devil
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter the candidate, every detail in a campaign is carefully and strategically framed for our consumption. The devil is in them.
- Decorate
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- Nov 07, 2020
What good is a wall without framed art? It is like the equivalent of the accessories that you choose to wear to decorate a black dress - precisely the stuff that makes the wall/dress you.
- Nov 07, 2020
What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there are other sorts of trains, and other sorts of novels. They rush by in the dark; passengers framed in the lighted windows are smiling and enjoying themselves.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020