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If you can't be kind, at least be vague.
Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.
Vagueness and good law are simply incompatible.
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.
Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.
A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.
Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.
Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
Pain can be vitalising; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.
In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent.
A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.
But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.
And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.
Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page...Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is noise. Jargon is noise.
Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.
Perhaps I became so vague, so exhilarated with vagueness, precisely in order to forestall a recognition of the final term of the syllogism that begins: If one man loves another he is a homosexual; I love a man.
After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong, whereas you stand a good chance of not being wrong if you make it vague enough.
Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making.
We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service.
My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the world around it, to offset the tendency to vagueness and abstraction. To remind people of practical activity, to suggest the sense and not to escape from the senses.
When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal.