Quotes with subject

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  • Bodhidharma And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
    The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Arthur Cayley 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.
    Arthur Cayley
    British mathematician (1821 - 1895)
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  • Carlo Rubbia 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.
    Carlo Rubbia
    Italian physicist and inventor (1934 - )
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  • Michel de Certeau As a first approximation, I define ''belief'' not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.
    Michel de Certeau
    French writer
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Myriam Miedzian As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.
    Myriam Miedzian
    American philosopher and author
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  • Bertil Ohlin As mathematics had been my best subject at school, my parents proposed - and I accepted - studies at the University of Lund in mathematics, statistics, and economics. The choice of the latter subject is said to be due to the fact that at the age of five years, I was very fond of calculating the cost of the various cakes my mother used to bake.
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  • Anthony Holden As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Bill Flores As you get larger, it is harder to have focused discussions. Because one of the things I've learned about Congress over the past four years that I've been in is there's no shortage of opinions about how things should be done on any particular subject.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • James Patterson Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.
    James Patterson
    American writer (1932 - 1972)
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  • A. A. Milne Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Arthur Cayley But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best to interest you in the subject which has occupied me, and in which I am myself most interested.
    Arthur Cayley
    British mathematician (1821 - 1895)
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  • Anthony Holden 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.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Anish Kapoor Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Hannah Arendt Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux Do what Jesus says,... what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church. Be subject to his vicars, your leaders, not only those who are gentle and kind, but even those who are overbearing.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • C. S. Lewis Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • William Baziotes Each painting has its own way of evolving... When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.
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  • Abraham Kaplan Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak, with its own agencies of social control.
    The Conduct of Inquiry
    Abraham Kaplan
    American philosopher
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