Quotes with subject-to-subject

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  • Brad Gilbert There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.
    Brad Gilbert
    American tennis player (1961 - )
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  • Anna Howard Shaw Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.
    Anna Howard Shaw
    American activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement (1847 - 1919)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Henry James To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • John Berger Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bernard Williams Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to study classics and, unlike Cambridge, it had a philosophy component, and I became completely transported by it.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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  • Adam Smith Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Barbara Walters Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Bill Gates We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Adam Ferguson We are fond of distinctions; we place ourselves in opposition, and quarrel under the denominations of faction and party, without any material subject of controversy.
    An Essay on the History of Civil Society
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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  • Barnett Newman We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless. That is why we profess spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
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  • Carolyn Maloney We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford.
    Carolyn Maloney
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Anatole France We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Caitlin Moran We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Barney Frank Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Harold Rosenberg What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?
    Harold Rosenberg
    American art criticus, writer (1906 - 1978)
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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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  • 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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