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  • Benjamin Whorf My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork, etc., and the results were presented in these terms.
    Benjamin Whorf
    American linguist and engineer (1897 - 1941)
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  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.
    Atal Bihari Vajpayee
    Indian statesman (1924 - 2018)
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  • Eric Gill Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.
    Eric Gill
    English sculptor and typeface designer (1882 - 1940)
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  • Benjamin Tucker The Anarchists most certainly believe in the Church; only they insist that all its work shall be purely voluntary, and that its discoveries and achievements, however beneficial, shall not be imposed upon the individual by authority.
    Individual Liberty
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Raymond Chandler The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Bill Forsyth The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
    Bill Forsyth
    Scottish film director and writer (1946 - )
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  • C. J. Mahaney The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.
    C. J. Mahaney
    American Christian minister (1953 - )
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Charles Baudelaire There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Alan Moore To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.
    Alan Moore
    English writer (1953 - )
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  • A. N. Wilson Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
    Letter to Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1830)
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Oscar Wilde What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Anne Tyler When I read, I'm purely a reader.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Katherine Anne Porter You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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