Quotes with subject

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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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  • 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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  • Henry S. Haskins When study becomes labor, we had better change the subject-matter as quickly as possible.
    Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 35
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Anselm Kiefer When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.
    Anselm Kiefer
    German painter and sculptor (1945 - )
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Larry Mcmurtry You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.
    Larry Mcmurtry
    American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter (1936 - )
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  • Lord Melbourne You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • John Dryden All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Bell Hooks Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are in no way linked to coercive subjugation. This feminist vision of the sexual imaginary is the space few men seem able to enter.
    Resisting Representations Outlaw Culture
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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