Elements Quotes

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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit — Seneca the Younger
I spent a lot of my youth working outside in the elements, and I kind of revel in defeating tough weather. — Nick Offerman
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… — Alfred North Whitehead
It is not enough to know what you want, you must also know why you want it, and what you will do once you have… — Kathleen McGowan
Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms. — Connie Willis
Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have ever… — Emma Goldman
All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble… — Henry Petroski
Fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, becasue thay see many operations go on in earth and heaven, the causes of which they… — Lucretius
Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to… — Bertrand Russell
With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can. — Roger Penrose
Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world. — Baden Powell de Aquino
Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her… — Sri Aurobindo
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of mind, produced by… — Frederick William Faber
Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature. — Sri Aurobindo
For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element. — Vidal Sassoon
Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All musicians practice ear training constantly, whether or not they are cognizant of it. If, when listening to a piece of music, a musician is… — Steve Vai
Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements of… — Harold Bloom
Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the East or… — Rumi

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