Quotes with elements

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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bill Hybels The Lord's Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God's attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Thomas Campbell The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.
    Thomas Campbell
    Scottish poet (1777 - 1844)
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  • Boris Vian The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.
    Boris Vian
    French writer, poet and engineer (1920 - 1959)
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  • Arthur Henderson The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a peace?
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Giuseppe Mazzini 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
    Italian writer (1805 - 1872)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Brian Pickrell The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
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  • Albert Einstein The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bertolt Brecht There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Benjamin Graham THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.
    Storage and Stability Part III, Ch. XIII, The Reservoir Plan and Credit
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Victor Hugo To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost - that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization - is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Carl Sagan We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Carl Sagan We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Carl Rogers When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and to go on. It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens, how confusions that seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard. I have deeply appreciated the times that I have experienced this sensitive, empathic, concentrated listening.
    Carl Rogers
    American psychologist (1902 - 1987)
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  • Brad Feld When we raised the first Foundry Group fund in 2007, we took over 100 first meetings. We told our story several hundred times. As part of it was a slide called 'Strategy.' I still repeat the elements of that slide regularly, a decade later, as our core strategy has not changed.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Abraham Lincoln Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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