Quotes with subject-matter

Quotes 321 till 340 of 700.

  • George F. Will Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called ''self-interestedness.'' This was not a
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Ba Jin Looking at this immensely swollen face in front of him the doctor gently consoled the patient, Comrade, don't worry and you will recover. As a matter of fact, he was thinking quite the opposite, You will die. I can be of no more help.
    Source: A Battle For Life
    Ba Jin
    Chinese author and political activist (1904 - 2005)
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  • William Shakespeare Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Carter Burwell Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Frank Gelett Burgess Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.
    Frank Gelett Burgess
    American artist, art critic and poet
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  • Billy Strayhorn Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment.
    Billy Strayhorn
    American jazz composer and pianist (1915 - 1967)
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  • Oprah Winfrey Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Susan M. Dodd Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.
    Source: Old Wives' Tales (1984)
    Susan M. Dodd
    American writer (1946 - )
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  • Will Durant Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Aldous Huxley Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Man is more powerful than matter.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Karl Marx Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Emily Post Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
    Emily Post
    American writer about etiquette (1872 - 1960)
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  • Oscar Wilde Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bertrand Russell Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Carl Andre Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.
    Source: Cuts: Texts 1959-2004
    Carl Andre
    American minimalist artist (1935 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Maybe the real subject of every interview is how you really can't learn much of anything about anyone from an interview.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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