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Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody. — Michel Legrand
The most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The inspired and expired air may be sometimes very useful, by condensing and cooling the blood that passeth through the lungs; I hold that the… — Robert Boyle
As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it is their chief… — Alexander Borodin
A transition from material want to meaning want is in progress on an historically unprecedented scale-involving hundreds of millions of people-and may eventually be recognized… — Gregg Easterbrook
Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that… — Anthony Storr
It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required… — Dee Hock
What is missing from the policy analyst's tool kit -- and from the set of accepted, well-developed theories of human organization -- is an adequately… — Elinor Ostrom
Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds… — Marvin Harris
As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are still more harmful… — Jonathan Kozol
Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
One of the principal impediments to job creation is uncertainty on the part of American companies, large and small. We've all watched as companies have… — Tom J. Donohue
We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude. — Michel de Montaigne
Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one… — Frank Dobson
The most important thing in the Land of Israel is to build, build, build. Its important that there will be an Israeli presence everywhere. Our… — Naftali Bennett
We have been counseled to "seek . . . out of the best books words of wisdom." It is pointed out in Proverbs, "Wisdom is… — Henry D. Taylor
Women have been held back and limited throughout the centuries. Creation could not have been rendered, not even considered, let alone be brought into manifestation… — Alice Coltrane
True Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of Paul have been… — Ernest Renan
Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what light is to… — Edith Sitwell
If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears. — Anthony Storr
Advertising is the principal reason why the business person has come to inherit the earth. — James Adams
Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education. — Hugh MacDiarmid
The great mobility of the King forms one of the chief characteristics of all endgame strategy. In the middlegame the King is a mere 'super',… — Aron Nimzowitsch
It is a well known phenomenon that the same amateur who can conduct the middle game quite creditably, is usually perfectly helpless in the end… — Aron Nimzowitsch
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.... — Thomas A. Edison

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