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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
Dan Brown
Life
Faith
Mysteries
Big
Fall
Own
Our
Following
Entirely
Classify
Point
Attempting
Miss
Like
Concepts
Obvious
Line
Continuum
Debating
End
Up
Semantics
Trying
May
Paths
Where
Decipher
Each
Enlightenment
I think the semantics of mini-series for a network is that it has an end.
Cary Fukunaga
Think
Network
End
Semantics
I am often asked about the difference between 'change management' and 'change leadership,' and whether it's just a matter of semantics. These terms are not interchangeable.
John P. Kotter
Leadership
Change
Management
Matter
About
Between
Terms
Am
Semantics
Often
Just
Difference
Interchangeable
Whether
Asked
When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.
Len Wein
Me
Job
Made
Rest
Laugh
Tell
Someone
Something
Writes
Written
Cry
Well
Semantics
Done
Them
Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Family
Black
Approaches
Though
Black Family
Cosby
About
Like
Sounds
Very
Semantics
Different
Wanted
Happened
Show
Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.
Roman Jakobson
Progress
Language
Made
Phonetics
Rapid
Remained
Study
Scientific
Occupy
Came
Semantics
Place
Central
While
Meaning
Even
Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.
Talulah Riley
You
Game
Philosophy
Claimed
Give
Studied
Because
Answers
Existence
Semantics
Meaning
Meaning Of
Initially
Basically
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.
Willard Van Orman Quine
Change
Words
Myth
Labels
Semantics
Which
Meanings
Languages
Switch
Museum