Famous quotes containing the words uniform, word and/or problem:
“Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)
“Poets ... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.”
—Archibald MacLeish (18921982)
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-linethe relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)