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  • There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that market.
  • And in another point of view, I think it is right that the address of a president should be on his own subject, and that different subjects should be thus brought in turn before the meetings.
  • As a boy, I was deeply interested in scientific ideas, electrical and mechanical, and I read almost everything I could find on the subject. I was attracted more by the hardware and construction aspects than by the scientific issues.
  • In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
  • The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.
  • The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.
  • 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.
  • Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.
  • There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.
  • I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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  • Martin Luther King Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Cato the Elder Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Winston Churchill A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Groucho Marx Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Huey Newton Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Carol Moseley Braun It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Hannah Arendt Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • John Updike Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Thomas Mann You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject-the actual enemy is the unknown.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Horace You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Bennet Omalu A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion - several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Bainbridge Colby A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Bill Brandt A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
    Bill Brandt: selected texts and bibliography
    Bill Brandt
    British photographer and photojournalist (1904 - 1983)
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  • George F. Will A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Cass Canfield A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.
    Cass Canfield
     
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  • Antonia Fraser After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bryan Burrough All the way back in 1999, when I first stumbled upon the idea of a project tracking John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson and all the major Depression-era bank robbers, I thought the subject was too big to be a single book. Instead, with a friend's help, I pitched the idea as a miniseries to HBO. To my amazement, they bought it.
    Bryan Burrough
    American author and correspondent (1961 - )
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  • John Dryden All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Michel de Certeau Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.
    Michel de Certeau
    French writer
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