Quotes with element

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  • Bill Viola Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It's a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you're in, no matter where you are on Earth or in history.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Conrad Hilton Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.
    Conrad Hilton
    American businessman and founder of the Hilton hotels (1887 - 1979)
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  • Bruce Jackson For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Beth Orton From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.
    Beth Orton
    English singer-songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Brendon Urie Having a very serious thematic element in the lyrics and then juxtaposing with something really triumphant and just a big beat to dance to is a nice contrast to having a dark message.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Dame Edith Sitwell 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.
    Dame Edith Sitwell
    British poet (1887 - 1964)
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  • Auberon Herbert How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Benjamin Disraeli I believe absence is a great element of charm.
    Endymion (1880)
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Bruce Forsyth I love getting on You Tube to look at the old comics. I am in my element seeing guys like Jack Benny and Phil Silvers give interviews.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo If the nature of a thing is such that it is reasonably certain to place life and limb in peril when negligently made, it is then a thing of danger. Its nature gives warning of the consequences to be expected. If to the element of danger there is added knowledge that the thing will be used by persons other than the purchaser, and used without new tests, then, irrespective of contract, the manufacturer of this thing of danger is under a duty to make it carefully.
    MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Northrop Frye In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
    Northrop Frye
    Canadian literair criticus (1912 - 1991)
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  • Franz Kafka In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Robert M. Lindner It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.
    Robert M. Lindner
    American author and psychologist (1914 - 1956)
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  • Samuel Smiles It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Barry Gibb It's very questionable, and we will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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  • James Baldwin No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • John Pierpont Morgan No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
    John Pierpont Morgan
    American banker, financer, art collector (1837 - 1913)
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  • Boris Spassky Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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