"A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text."

-- D. A. Carson

#Proof Quotes #Pretext Quotes

“When a woman wears a low-cut gown, what does she expect you to do: look or not look?”
“The power of an aroused public is unbeatable.”

Source : Helen Caldicott, Nancy Herrington, Nahum Stiskin (1982). “Nuclear madness: what you can do! : with a new chapter on Three Mile Island”, Bantam
“I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.”
“Yes, but the difference is that when you're dead and somebody yells, 'Everybody up, it's morning,' it's very hard to find your slippers.”
“Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.”
“I absolutely did date Victoria Beckham, yes.”
“This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be forged with, not for, the oppressed (whether individuals or peoples) in the incessant struggle to regain their humanity.”
“When we talk about the impact inside mathematics, and applications in the sciences, [Mandelbrot] is one of the most important figures of the last 50 years.”

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