Elements Quotes - Page 4

• In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Tragedy, Comedy

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• The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.

  Martin McGuinness

  Military, Car, Facts

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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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• 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 second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.

  Johan Huizinga

  Culture, Fundamentals, Strive

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

  Eric Hoffer

  Cutting, People, Size

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• Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.

  George Crumb

  Nervous, Rhythm, Nervous System

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• I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

  Piers Anthony

  Want, Guilty, Claims

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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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• 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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• Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

  Edith Wharton

  Art, Fear, Immature

  The Writing of Fiction (1925) ch. 1

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• For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful to scientific chemistry; but they do not rank as genuine scientific men. The genuine scientific chemist cares just as much to learn about erbium-the extreme rarity of which renders it commercially unimportant-as he does about iron. He is more eager to learn about erbium if the knowledge of it would do more to complete his conception of the Periodic Law, which expresses the mutual relations of the elements.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Science, Men, Law

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• Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Israel, Mosaics, Accepting

  "Democracy in the Middle East, PluralIism in Europe: Turkish View". The Turkish Weekly, October 12, 2004.

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• No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

  Francis Marion Crawford

  Cute, Friendship, Mean

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• There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

  Thomas Browne

  Religion, Pieces, Divinity

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 2, sect. 11

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• My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Travel, Reading, Writing

  "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

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• [This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes, but on elements in general and the Periodic Law.... Chemical homogeneity is no longer a guarantee that any supposed element is not a mixture of several of different atomic weights, or that any atomic weight is not merely a mean number.

  Frederick Soddy

  Mean, Science, Light

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• Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow.

  Herb Ritts

  Light, Two, Shadow

  Herb Ritts, Paul Martineau, James Crump (2012). “Herb Ritts: L.A. Style”, p.3, Getty Publications

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• In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Influence, Reason, Over It

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2003). “The Soul of the Indian”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Men, Eulogy

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 5, sc. 5, l. 68

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• The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter

  Lucian Freud

  Erotic, Matter, Sides

  Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers

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