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• The plain truth is that the only consistent theme in advertising is the absence of any consistent theme.

  Prince William of Hesse-Kassel

  Business, Advertising, Truth Is

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• Thou wouldst be loved? - then let thy heart
  From its present pathway part not!
  Being everything which now thou art,
  Be nothing which thou art not.
  So with the world thy gentle ways,
  Thy grace, thy more than beauty,
  Shall be an endless theme of praise,
  And love - a simple duty.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Life, Art, Simple

  Edgar Allan Poe (1912). “The Bells and Other Poems”, p.65, Library of Alexandria

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• I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing a wide variety of characters, from good to bad to ugly to cute - so I have enjoyed of late working in film and television, as well as in theatres of various sizes and shapes.

  Ian Mckellen

  Cute, Character, Play

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• You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning beforehand. You really can't over-prepare in business!

  Chris Corrigan

  Business, Mistake, Needs

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• The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beer, Culture, Use

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” This sentence alone would save mankind, if all books and prophets were lost. This purity of heart will bring the vision of God. It is the theme of the whole music of this universe. In purity is no bondage. Remove the veils of ignorance by purity; then we manifest ourselves as we really are and know that we were never in bondage. The seeing of 'many' is the great sin of all the world. See all as Self and love all; let all idea of separateness go.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Book, Blessed

  "Inspired Talks by Swami Vivekananda".

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• I had one simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in the community suggested everything else to us, and that's our theme. We're really run by the people who use the site. We just run the infrastructure, and help out with problems.

  Craig Newmark

  Friendship, Running, Art

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• Most of the time when "universal" is used, it's just a euphamism for "white"; white themes, white significance, white culture.

  Merle Woo

  White, Justice, Diversity

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• Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.

  Hilary Mantel

  Memories, Human Condition, Humans

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• Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wisdom, Song, Art

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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• There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power - but that Americans are soft and decadent, that they cannot and will not unite and work and fight. ... Let them tell that to the Marines!

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Military, Fighting, Marine

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• The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.

  Garet Garrett

  Peace, War, Blow

  Garet Garrett (1965). “The people's pottage”, Caxton Printers

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• Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been predictable and unexpected variations on the theme of being themselves.

  Mary McCarthy

  Character, Giving, Personality

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The Humanist in the Bathtub”

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• Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.

  Max Beerbohm

  Men, Vanity, Small Talk

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1958). “Mainly on the Air”

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• I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Running, Writing, Overcoming

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• Every (stressful thought) is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn't be happening. I shouldn't be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn't fair.

  Byron Katie

  Stress, Unjust, Variation

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• Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

  Alan Price

  Emotional, Fantasy, Fantastic

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• Though the Bible was written over sixteen centuries by at least forty authors, it has one central theme-salvation through faith in Christ.

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Sixteen, Christ

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.266, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I've explored a variety of directions and themes over the years. But I think in my painting you can see the signature of one artist, the work of one wrist.

  Helen Frankenthaler

  Artist, Thinking, Years

  "Abstract Expressionism". Book by Barbara Hess, 2005.

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• The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Success, Perseverance, Men

  Interview in "How They Succeeded" by Orison Swett Marden, Chapter 2, 1901.

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• The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem.

  Richard Winters

  Self Esteem, People, Rejection

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• Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Dream, Years, Racism

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• Science and religion are very much alike. Both are imaginative and creative aspects of the human mind. The appearance of a conflict is a result of ignorance. We come to exist through a divine act. That divine guidance is a theme throughout our life; at our death the brain goes, but that divine guidance and love continues. Each of us is a unique, conscious being, a divine creation. It is the religious view. It is the only view consistent with all the evidence.

  John Eccles

  Religious, Ignorance, Unique

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• The main theme of the Bible is the restoration of humanity and, through humanity, of the whole of creation to its original harmony.

  Bede Griffiths

  Spiritual, Humanity, Restoration

  Bede Griffiths (1990). “A New Vision of Reality: Western Science, Eastern Mysticism and Christian Faith”, Templegate Pub

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• What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the understanding of reality it reflects.

  Hans Rookmaaker

  Christian, Art, Lying

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