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The subject should be observed more for shape and color than for drawing... precise drawing is dry and hampers the impression of the whole, it… — Camille Pissarro
A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the subject it may represent. — Henry Moore
Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of study are by… — Peter Drucker
Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject. — John Henry Patterson
People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of… — Ilka Chase
And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or… — Samuel Adams
It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest. — William O. Douglas
He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to… — Epictetus
Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And… — C.S. Lewis
Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness… — Samuel Johnson
Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness… — Henry David Thoreau
Poor people either mismanage their money or they avoid the subject of money altogether. — T. Harv Eker
Mr. Russell is a great believer in versatility in all creative work. In any physical work he believes one can work many hours at a… — Walter Russell
The majority of Americans get their news and information about what is going on with their government from entities that are licensed by and subject… — Neal Boortz
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority. — Ayn Rand
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been… — Douglas MacArthur
The American heritage was one of individual liberty, personal responsibility and freedom from government ... Unfortunately ... that heritage has been lost. Americans no longer… — Harry Browne
The Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the nature of things.… — Walter Lippmann
Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water.… — Carl Sagan
The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for their classification. But… — Karl Landsteiner
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee of… — Lord Kelvin
The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to… — John Arbuthnot
To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in… — Louis Pasteur
It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely… — James Clerk Maxwell

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