Quotes with constraints

  • Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints - the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk -we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.
  • People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.

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  • Harry Mathews Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints - the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk -we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.
    Harry Mathews
    American writer (1930 - 2017)
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  • Bill Lipinski Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems.
    Bill Lipinski
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Brigham Young If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Barry Diller If we're going to talk about our businesses, we're going to have to talk about them within the constraints of the disclosure rules, without giving guidance, because we're not going to give guidance, because we don't believe that it is a sensible game to play.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Pretty much, you point to a problem and good reasoning about why people are doing what they are doing and what constraints they face in terms of how others will behave, and you're looking at a problem that could be improved upon by game-theoretic reasoning.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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