Quotes with subject-matter

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  • Georges Bernanos What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • John Stuart Mill What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Annie Leibovitz What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Barbara Coloroso What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance.
    Barbara Coloroso
    American author
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  • George Bernard Shaw What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Anita Hill What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Peter F. Drucker What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Malcolm Forbes What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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  • Peter F. Drucker When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • William Hazlitt When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Marguerite Duras When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Billy Graham When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Candice Bergen When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?
    Candice Bergen
    American actress (1946 - )
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  • Adam Clymer When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.
    Adam Clymer
    American journalist (1937 - 2018)
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Alice Hamilton When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.
    Alice Hamilton
    American physician, research scientist, and author (1869 - 1970)
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  • Bjork When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Henry S. Haskins When study becomes labor, we had better change the subject-matter as quickly as possible.
    Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 35
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Cameron Sinclair When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
    Cameron Sinclair
    British architect and writer (1973 - )
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