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• Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Government, Literature, Politics

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• Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.

  Michael Pitt

  Fun, Hard Work, Scary

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• Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

  Willa Cather

  Inspirational, Life, Achievement

  Willa Cather (2002). “The Professor's House”, p.30, U of Nebraska Press

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• Love is the internal, affectively apprehended, aspect of the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the expression and the agent of universal synthesis.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Love, Together, Facts

  "Activation of Energy: Enlightening Reflections on Spiritual Energy". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1976.

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• We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Perfect, Imagination, Half

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!

  Ben Stiller

  Tired, People, Sick

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• The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

  Ron Paul

  Rights, Rejection, Historical

  Ron Paul (1987). “Freedom Under Siege”, p.38, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage.

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika

  Creativity, Heritage, Rehabilitation

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• If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.

  George Crumb

  Art, Looks, Century

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• The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Strong, Rights, Obstacles

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

  Edith Sitwell

  Baby, Water, Hot

  As quoted in "20,000 Quips & Quotes" by Evan Esa, 1995.

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• A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

  John Stuart Mill

  Life, Party, Order

  'On Liberty' (1859) ch. 2

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• There definitely is that element of guys who like to party and have a good time and... putting off for as long as possible the idea that they'll actually have to settle down

  Luke Wilson

  Party, Ideas, Long

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• Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.

  Paracelsus

  Dream, Inspiration, May

  "Selected Writings".

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• We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

  Samuel Alexander

  Mental Health, Wells, Cognitive

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• The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.

  Alex Winter

  Movie, Aliens, Horror

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• Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

  Joyce Brothers

  Friendship, Taken, Mean

  "On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes" by Paula Munier, (p. 69), 2004.

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• Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.

  Nigella Lawson

  Cooking, Literature, Sometimes

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• A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.

  Bill Brandt

  Photography, Giving, Atmosphere

  Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

  Rita Dove

  Thinking, Two, Trying

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• The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

  Federica Montseny

  Liberty, Dignity, Anarchist

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• I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line.

  Maximilian Schell

  Beautiful, Thinking, Symphony

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• Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Sound, Principles, Radical

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

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• Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Positive, Pain, Philosophical

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.7, Full Moon Publications

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• Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mysterious, Mystery, Virtue

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