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What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of… — Anish Kapoor
The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter… — Jim Dine
I acknowledge the Roman Church to be our mother church, although defiled with some infirmities and corruptions...Let [the Papists] assure themselves, that, as I am… — King James I
I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers. Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer… — Ida Lupino
To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which so beautifully adorns… — James Hutton
The writer, like a swimmer caught by an undertow, is borne in an unexpected direction. He is carried to a subject which has awaited him--a… — Elizabeth Bowen
I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who… — Christopher Columbus
Among the Spartans all newly born children were subject to a careful examination or selection. All those that were weak, sickly, or affected with any… — Ernst Haeckel
Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic… — Siri Hustvedt
Faith is not a leap in the dark; it’s the exact opposite. It’s a commitment based on evidence… It is irrational to reduce all faith… — John Lennox
The real power of this book comes from its documentation from major sources. In fact, you will quickly discover that most of my documents about… — David Duke
No attempt to explain the world, either scientifically or theologically, can be considered successful until it accounts for the paradoxical conjunction of the temporal and… — Paul Davies
Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love the organisms for… — E. O. Wilson
In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China… — Chen-Ning Yang
True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside… — Corliss Lamont
Prana... is the spirit of mantra. Mantra in turn is the expression of prana. Whatever most engages our prana or vital energy becomes the main… — David Frawley
Betrayal... is my favorite subject. — Norman Jewison
Certain characteristics of the subject are clear. To begin with, we do not in this subject deal with particular things or particular properties: we deal… — Bertrand Russell
A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its… — Rabindranath Tagore
Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king. — Alexander Pope
Sport is a very important subject at school, that's why I gave Quidditch such an important place at Hogwarts. I was very bad in sports,… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Self-absorption is always a temptation to young people, and if their religion is of a sort to add to this self-absorption, I feel that it… — Hannah Whitall Smith
The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is… — Horace Mann
So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian is… — Philip Sidney
The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in… — Howard Nemerov

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