Elements Quotes

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Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It makes no sense to ask… — Chalmers Johnson
Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn't it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art must render the… — Paul Cezanne
John Boehner has to start taking a macro step towards the American people, away from the more radical elements of his party. You know, it's… — Howard Bragman
A little instruction in the elements of chartographyâ€”a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical map of the… — Mary Antin
Seagulls . . . slim yachts of the element. — Robinson Jeffers
Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking. — Alan Greenspan
Going after anything worthwile in life entailed risk, of course. A man of ambition and courage didn't let that stop or delay him. A man… — John Jakes
The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the government ever… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection… — Anais Nin
The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion of… — Isham G. Harris
The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice. — Henri Matisse
There is, however, one feature that I would like to suggest should be incorporated in the machines, and that is a 'random element.' Each machine… — Alan Turing
Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what could be called the bourgeois conception… — Theodore Kaczynski
The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT which will bring about mental emancipation. Without the wonderful element of doubt, the… — Anton Szandor LaVey
The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic. — William Godwin
A theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements: it must accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of a… — Stephen Hawking
But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to… — Origen
Our tissues change as we live: the food we eat and the air we breathe become flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone,… — Norbert Wiener
The voice is certainly important and you can hear if it's beautiful or not, it's the gods who decide; it's more a question of what… — Cecilia Bartoli
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that… — Jean-Francois Lyotard

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