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explicit

«If no thought your mind does visit, Make your speech not too explicit»
Author: Piet Hein (Inventor) | About: Mind | Keywords: explicit, visit
«Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin | Keywords: explicit
«He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.»
«I think ''taste'' is a social concept and not an artistic one. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.»
«The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.»
Author: Wyndham Lewis (Artist) | Keywords: explicit, utilitarian
«Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others»
«Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.»
«What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.»