Famous quotes containing the words point, interpretive and/or system:
“I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
“The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.”
—Paul De Man (19191983)
“Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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