• I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.

  Alfred N. Whitehead
  English philosopher and mathematician 1861-1947
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1. juxtaposition
2. incongruous
3. altogether
4. destroyed
5. matter
6. which

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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether. by : Alfred N. Whitehead

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