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• Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Science, Building Up, Statistics

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1960). “St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts”

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• Understanding has very specific component parts. These component parts are affinity, reality and communication.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Communication, Reality, Understanding

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• There is an innate innocence in the concious Vata personality. A delicate, sensitive, and aware nature reveals the graceful Vata component of any type.

  Maya Tiwari

  Personality, Innocence, Sensitive

  Maya Tiwari (2005). “Ayurveda: A Life of Balance : the Complete Guide to Ayurvedic Nutrition and Body Types with Recipes”

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• The brain remembers the emotional component of an experience better than any other aspect.

  John Medina

  Emotional, Brain, Remember

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• When you find the right components in your life, the right people, that gel with you, then you feel as though you're invincible. It may be a fallacy, but you at least feel as though you can take all that life has to dish out.

  Sylvester Stallone

  People, May, Dishes

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• The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.

  Alain de Botton

  Drawing, Looks, Awareness

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• For most cosmologists, a supernatural God is an unnecessary hypothesis. For most Americans, He is an unassailable fact. The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.

  Gary Sloan

  Religion, Atheism, Machines

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• That's one component: rather than creating job-training pipelines that put these kids at the back of the line for the last century's pollution-based jobs, we need to be creating opportunities for them to be at the front of the line for the new clean and green jobs.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Kids, Opportunity

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• Every winner needs to master three essential components of trading; a sound individual psychology, a logical trading system and good money management. These essentials are like three legs of a stool – remove one and the stool will fall, together with the person who sits on it.

  Alexander Elder

  Fall, Psychology, Together

  Alexander Elder (1993). “Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management”, p.17, John Wiley & Sons

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• The first and most important component in nation building is LAW. Law is the source of national Cohesion.

  Myles Munroe

  Law, Important, Firsts

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• Research shows that social media is comprised of two components: social and media.

  Brian Carter

  Media, Two, Research

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• I'm not sure I had ever written a fan letter before to a poet I had not met, but that's what I did when I read two poems by Gregory Woods ... I admired them especially for their technical virtuosity, in that it was technique completely used, never for the sake of cleverness but as a component of feeling ... What an enviable talent Gregory Woods has

  Thom Gunn

  Two, Feelings, Technique

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• Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Light, White, Empathy

  Albert Schweitzer (1965). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”, New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston

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• The American Dream is one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives today in an age when its core components of freedom and opportunity are open to more Americans than ever before. It holds a real, identifiable place in the American heart and mind, and it informs the aspirations of everyone from farmers to software developers, from detectives to bankers, from soldiers to social workers . . . It defines us as a people, even as we add to its meaning with each new chapter in our national experience and our individual actions.

  Dan Rather

  Dream, Real, Heart

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• I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.

  Brian Aldiss

  Identity, Wells

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• Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Running, Heaven, Essentials

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacity, its impetus.

  David Hume

  Ideas, Force, Vivacity

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• The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Mystery, Commonplace, Eternal

  Gertrude Atherton (1902). “The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton”, G.N. Morang

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• The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation.

  Noam Chomsky

  Language, Interpretation, Grammar

  Noam Chomsky (2014). “Aspects of the Theory of Syntax”, p.15, MIT Press

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• In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object, and everything that is not simple will be expressed by a combination of words, by a combination derived, of course, from the words for the simple things that enter in, one word for each simple component.

  Bertrand Russell

  Simple, Perfect, Language

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Philosophy of Logical Atomism”, p.25, Routledge

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• While science continually uncovers new mysteries, it has removed much of what was once regarded as deeply mysterious. Although we certainly do not know the exact nature of every component of the universe, the basic principles of physics seem to apply out to the farthest horizon visible to us today.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Atheism, Principles, Horizon

  Victor J. Stenger (2003). “Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe”, Pyr Books

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• There is enough Christianity in our country's history to make it a significant component of our heritage and identity.

  Joel Hunter

  Christian, Country, Religious

  Joel C. Hunter (2011). “New Kind of Conservative (Large Print 16pt)”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There would be this algebraic equation with an equals sign in the middle, and all the components would have different letters of the alphabet. It would come out right with x+z^2+t/q=y+co, and the co would be clothes off!

  Tom Stoppard

  Science, Clothes, Different

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• ... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.

  Mary Heaton Vorse

  Broken, Breaking Down, Strikes

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• A statue of Apollo in a museum does not seem naked, but attach a tie to its neck and it will strike us as indecent ... The text is one of the components of an artistic work, albeit an extremely important component ... But the artistic effect as a whole arises from comparisons of the text with a complex set of ontological and ideological esthetic ideas.

  Yuri Lotman

  Ideas, Ties, Museums

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