{"quotes":[{"text":"Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, under the banner of which it is quite convenient to use words that have a still less clear meaning and therefore can easily be plugged into any theory.","author":"Leo Tolstoy","tags":["civilization","culture","education","meaning","theories","vagueness","words"],"id":41363,"author_id":"Leo+Tolstoy"},{"text":"People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.","author":"George F. Will","tags":["focus","leadership","strategy","vagueness"],"id":71203,"author_id":"George+F.+Will"},{"text":"A story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.","author":"George Orwell","tags":["clarity","communication","confusion","story","vagueness"],"id":84623,"author_id":"George+Orwell"},{"text":"Like all great things which then become fashions, science, as now the universal stamp of approval, probably receives more abuse than any other field of study. Glaze the word itself over whatever vague ideology one may presume ratified, no matter the degree of pseudo-science or lack of scholarly credibility packaged within, and the many will consume it like gravy on a feast. My thought for the time is that as the promise of true science increases, so shall rise its many more superficial counterparts as provided by the agenda-bound trendies and hyper-ambitious laypersons to boot.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["agenda","discovery","exploration","fact","fake","fashion","fiction","ideology","ignorance","intelligence","layman","lies","media","non-fiction","propaganda","pseudo-science","pseudoscience","ratification","science","scientific-method","study","superficial","superstition","theory","trend","truth","vagueness","vagueness-of-language","validation"],"id":189475,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"If you can't be kind, at least be vague.","author":"Judith Martin","tags":["etiquette","kindness","vagueness"],"id":280189,"author_id":"Judith+Martin"},{"text":"For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of strict rules, either. We, in our discussions on the other hand, constantly compare language with a calculus preceding to exact rules.","author":"Ludwig Wittgenstein","tags":["family-resemblance","meaning","philosophy","vagueness"],"id":459689,"author_id":"Ludwig+Wittgenstein"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}