Margaret J. Wheatley (1941) American writer
Source: Leadership and the New Science (1992), p. 144
“The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.”
Within the Context of No Context (1980)
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George W. S. Trow (1943–2006) American writer
Within the Context of No Context (1980)
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
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“The context of love is the world.”
Wendell Berry (1934) author
"The Responsibility of the Poet".
What Are People For? (1990)
Context: Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow the ground of judgment. But amateur standards, the standards of love, are always straining upward toward the humble and the best. They enlarge the ground of judgment. The context of love is the world.
“Because love requires context.”
Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World
Horns
Variant: Love requires Context.
“Nationalist in form; socialist in context.”
Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
"Language Policy in the Soviet Union", Lenore A. Grenoble, New York: NY, Kluwer Academic Publishers (2003) p. 41.
Stalin's speeches, writings and authorised interviews
“Putting Hunter in context was tough.”
William McKeen (1954) American academic
Epilogue, p. 356
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Michael Halliday (1925–2018) Australian linguist
Source: 1970s and later, Explorations in the functions of language, 1973, p. 49 cited in: William O. Beeman (1986) Language, Status, and Power in Iran. p. 65.