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Element Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more…
- The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness…
- The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance…
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- I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. — David Attenborough
- Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully… — Paul Auster
- The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope. — Irving Babbitt
- We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments. — Michelle Bachelet
- The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has… — Bruce Barton
- Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the… — Charles Baudelaire
- The most powerful element in advertising is the truth. — William Bernbach
- There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny. — Irving Berlin
- I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself. — Mary J. Blige
- I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions,… — Russell Brand
- Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life. — Joyce Brothers
- I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor. — Steve Buscemi