Elements Quotes
2047 quotes by 1625 authors
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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
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Fascism in power is the open, terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary, the most chauvinistic, the most imperialistic elements of finance capitalism.
— Karl Marx
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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
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These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements.
— Frank Carlucci
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Communists must never separate themselves from the majority of the people or neglect them by leading only a few progressive contingents in an isolated and…
— Mao Zedong
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I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper was by Dorothy…
— Paul Halmos
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All high beauty has a moral element in it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Come in, my dearFrom that harsh worldThat has rained elements of stoneUpon your tender face.Every soulShould receive a toast from usFor bravery!
— Hafez
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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
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Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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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
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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
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Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the…
— Leonard Nimoy
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Never mishandle hope or self-confidence - those are elements of life, not just a game.
— John Kessel
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People ask me what makes a great skier. It takes the gift; but besides the gift it takes all the availability of mind which permit…
— Jean-Claude Killy
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The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges, and…
— Ronald Reagan
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Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts.…
— Will Durant
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Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.
— Joan Didion
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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
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