Elements Quotes - Page 10

• When the elements are arranged in vertical columns according to increasing atomic weight, so that the horizontal lines contain analogous elements again according to increasing atomic weight, an arrangement results from which several general conclusions may be drawn.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Science, Weight, Lines

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• Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places.

  John Searle

  Thinking, Body, Students

  "Professor recalls pros, cons of Free Speech Movement". Interview with Meriah Doty, www.cnn.com. January 9, 2004.

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• Despite the amount of suffering, pain, misery, sorrow and travail which can exist in life, the reason for existence is the same reason as one has to play a game-interest, contest, activity and possession. The truth of this assertion is established by an observation of the elements of games and then applying these elements to life itself.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Pain, Games, Play

  L. Ron Hubbard (1976). “Scientology, a New Slant on Life”, p.99, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown.

  Mary GrandPre

  Character, Fog, Creating

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• There is a large element of me in every role I do.

  Bruce Campbell

  Roles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.

  Archie Shepp

  Important, Response, Audience

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• Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

  William Ralph Inge

  Risk, Venture, Affinity

  William Ralph Inge (1910). “Faith and Its Psychology”

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• Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  People, Consciousness

  "Time Rules In Jamaica Kincaid's New Novel, 'See Now Then'". "All Things Considered" with Celeste Headlee, www.wamc.org. March 3, 2013.

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• The real secret to guacamole is that you use exactly the elements that you need, which is cilantro, onion, tomato, and jalapenos. And, of course, avocado.

  Demian Bichir

  Real, Secret, Needs

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• Quality, affordable housing is a key element of a strong and secure Iowa.

  Tom Vilsack

  Strong, Keys, Iowa

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• If all the elements are arranged in the order of their atomic weights, a periodic repetition of properties is obtained. This is expressed by the law of periodicity.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Science, Order, Law

  Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (2013). “Mendeleev on the Periodic Law: Selected Writings, 1869 - 1905”, p.271, Courier Corporation

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• Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.

  Albert Camus

  Unreality, Abstraction, Misfortunes

  "The Plague". Book by Albert Camus, 1947.

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• Work almost always has a double aspect: it is a bondage, a wearisome drudgery; but it is also a source of interest, a steadying element, a factor that helps to integrate the worker with society. Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Retirement, Work, Holiday

  Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”

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• A dream inspiring a story is different than placing a description of a dream in a story. When you describe a character's dream, it has to be sharper than reality in some way, and more meaningful. It has to somehow speak to plot, character, and all the rest. If you're writing something fantastical, it can be a really deadly choice because your story already has elements that can seem dreamlike.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Meaningful, Dream, Character

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I mean there's still also an element of the audience looking for role models. In my day, when I started, if you were an action hero, you were a little bit of a role model like the person.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Hero, Mean, Role Models

  Source: www.stumpedmagazine.com

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• I wish I could free myself from making music that has a dancefloor-function, or at least try to focus more on all the other elements in music.

  Hans-Peter Lindstrøm

  Focus, Wish, Trying

  Interview with Dominique Leone, pitchfork.com. September 29, 2008.

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• An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element.

  Luc Tuymans

  One Direction, Self, Artwork

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• Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth Of all sweet sounds the life and element!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Sweet, Voice, Issues

  'Dejection: an Ode' (1802) st. 4

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• The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Self, Oneness, Diversity

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• One thing about beginning writers is that they don't really always know their own strengths and weaknesses - you might think you're bad at characterization, but that might really be because of some issue you're having with another element, which is making it hard for you to express character in a convincing way.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Character, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• Reality TV has managed to commodify everything we used to think of as the elements of normal life.

  Merrill Markoe

  Reality, Thinking, Tvs

  Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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• Every improv must be song specific. It has to grow organically out of the particular elements involved or it's just glib self-expression. I hate when I feel like I'm the lead guitarist in a rock band. We all gotta be going somewhere strong together, you know?

  David First

  Song, Strong, Hate

  "The Only Late is Never". Interview with Marc Masters, Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. November 12, 2010.

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• For women, all women, whatever our sexuality, it's crucial to our health that we are able to separate sexuality from reproduction. I mean whether or not we can control when we give birth is the biggest element in our health, our education, our economic welfare, our life expectancy, everything.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mean, Giving, Able

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 28, 2010.

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• In music the mystical element is definitely there all the time, and one can see it.

  Debbie Harry

  Mystical

  "Platinum Blondie". Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 10, 2017.

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• If you ask people to remember a painting and a photograph, their description of the photograph is far more accurate than that of the painting. Strangely enough, there is a physical element intertwined with the painting. It shakes loose an emotional element within the viewer.

  Luc Tuymans

  Emotional, People, Remember

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