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Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem, it does not require a belief in abstract entities.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about faith, essential, use

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change, and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

Quote by Camille Paglia about history, greatness, force, beauty, order, change, man