Will Self

Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities of these communications media have simply failed to adjust to the shock of the old. People who bleat on about the 'artistic' potential of television qua television are equally deluded.

English Author

Benjamin Whorf

But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.

American Scientist

Lev Grossman

Hating a book is not unlike hating a person; in fact it's tempting to just go ahead and hate the author personally, by proxy, qua human being, except that I know that would be a mistake.

American Novelist

Louis MacNeice

Mysticism, in the narrow sense, implies a specific experience which is foreign to most poets and most men, but on the other hand, it represents an instinct which is a human sine qua non.

British Poet

Aristotle

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Greek Philosopher

Stephen Ambrose

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.

American Historian

Warren Bennis

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

American Writer

Janet Malcolm

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

Arthur Laffer

Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society.

American Economist

Robert A. Heinlein

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

Use 'qua' to clarify the capacity or role someone has in a situation.

Role Identification

'Qua' emphasizes a distinct aspect of an individual or thing, separating roles sharply.

Strict Separation

'Qua' often appears in academic or formal discussions to sound precise.

Academic Flavor

Indicates the limit of the speaker's knowledge or opinion to a specific role or experience.

Extent of Knowledge

Employ 'qua' to communicate precisely about someone's views or actions according to their role.

Precision in Speech

 and trust is a sine qua non of this new network world. So this is good. It's not bad. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. And we need a lot of sunlight in this troubled world. Now, the third meaning and corresponding principle of openness is about sharing. Now this is different than transparency.

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 who are involved with thinking very much upfront about how are we going to carry this story out well let's give it let's put it on the ground and give an example I sent qua Minh an email about two months ago and he wrote back right away and said I have kind of a spotty

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 the hospital I know now I know definitely which one I would choose I want you to know that there are farms out there I built here and so qua Chico's farms in Tennessee whose cows do

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