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A woman is subject matter enough. — Claude Chabrol
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain. — Deepak Chopra
My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were… — Steven Chu
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. — Winston Churchill
My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing… — John Cleese
Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance… — Nick Clegg
I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather… — Grover Cleveland
As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his… — Leonard Cohen
I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower. — Stephen Ambrose
I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but… — Tori Amos
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of… — Thomas Aquinas
It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it among one's own people. And… — George F. Kennan
The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves "inside the… — Nhat Hanh
War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. — William Cowper
In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is danger where men… — Alexander Hamilton
Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole… — Freeman Patterson
In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I passed around a… — Louis Agassiz
However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not suppose that this… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

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