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Ambiguity Quotes

"It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth."

"It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth."

John C. Hawkes, American Novelist

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"Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with."

"Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with."

Skeet Ulrich, American Actor

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"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."

"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."

Kingman Brewster, Jr., American Educator

Ambiguity, Kingman Brewster

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"Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be."

"Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be."

Roger von Oech, American Author

Ambiguity, World

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"I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door."

"I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door."

Michael Ondaatje, Canadian Author

Ambiguity, Ending, Open

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"The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood."

"The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood."

Alexander Haig, American Public Servant

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"Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity."

"Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity."

Graham Nelson, English Mathematician

Ambiguity, Being, Resolution, Sensitivity

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"The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes."

"The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes."

Aldrich Ames, American Criminal

Ambiguity, Confusion, Mistakes

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"The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way."

"The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way."

Stephen Rea, Irish Actor

Ambiguity, Writing

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