Open Set Condition

Famous quotes containing the words open, set and/or condition:

“Better is open rebuke than hidden love.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 27:5.

“He set the jug down slowly at his feet
With trembling care, knowing that most things break;”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

“Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.”
—Conor Cruise O’Brien (b. 1917)