Famous quotes containing the words word, sense and/or induction:
“Poets ... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.”
—Archibald MacLeish (18921982)
“The more I live here in western Europe, the more I am impressed by the sense of decay;Mnot the graceful and dignified decay of an oriental, but the vulgar and sordid decay of a bankrupt cotton-mill.”
—Henry Brooks. Adams (18381918)
“They relieve and recommend each other, and the sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanities. She punishes abstractionists, and will only forgive an induction which is rare and casual.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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