Quotes with subject-the

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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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  • 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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  • Andrea Dworkin Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Benjamin Graham Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Ben Carson My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Colonel Muhammar Qaddafi Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.
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  • Jean Paul Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Woodrow Wilson No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Carl Hiaasen Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Anne Tyler None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Carol Loomis On the rare occasions when my family talked about business, the subject was Kansas City's Boss Pendergast and his potential for muscling my dad's small gravel-and-sand operation.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Thomas Mann Order and simplification are the first steps towards the mastery of a subject.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Katherine Anne Porter Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Samuel Johnson Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Adam Arkin People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Annie Dillard People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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