Element Quotes

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Numbing the senses by monotonously repeating an assertion is a key element in utilizing mind control techniques. — Joost Meerloo
Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world through… — Rebecca Solnit
Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's… — Alex Winter
So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows… — Archie Shepp
Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride. — Ambrose Bierce
"Ay," said the Captain, reverentially; "it's a almighty element. There's wonders in the deep, my pretty. Think on it when the winds is roaring and… — Charles Dickens
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element… — Theodor Adorno
What I believe, according to my own experience, is that a calm, peaceful mind is a very important element for sustaining the body in a… — Dalai Lama
We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more… — Reinhold Niebuhr
All high beauty has a moral element in it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which order and measurements… — Rene Descartes
Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own choice,… — Leonardo da Vinci
Let's review the cost-free techniques that we've learned so far for raising an achievement-oriented, obedient, drug-free, virgin adult: Calamity, Praise, Local Theater, and flat feet.… — Tina Fey
Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance. — Joan Didion
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage. — Wes Craven
Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of… — Martin Luther
There is a large element of me in every role I do. — Bruce Campbell
The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new… — Giuseppe Mazzini

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