Quotes with subjects

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  • John Naisbitt 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.
    John Naisbitt
    American author and public speaker (1929 - )
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Brooks Atkinson In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional optimism of America lurked behind most of the early plays. But not now. There is no conviction now that the problem will be solved.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Agnes Smedley In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Charles Edward Jerningham It is a sign of mediocrity to have settled opinions on unsettled subjects.
    The maxims of Marmaduke
    Charles Edward Jerningham
    English aphorist (1854 - 1921)
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  • Boman Irani It used to bug me that I couldn't even afford to take my family for a proper holiday. I didn't have any professional knowledge, and getting a photographer's job in a magazine was out of the question. So, armed with a Pentax K1000, I started going to various maidans of Mumbai, looking for subjects.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Billy Bragg It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't choose my subjects, they kind of choose me.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Edmund Burke Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Caleb Deschanel Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry.
    Caleb Deschanel
    American cinematographer and director (1944 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bill Parcells My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That's pretty narrow... I don't view myself as a person who's well-versed in very many subjects. I'm not proud of that.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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  • Arthur Keith Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Benjamin Haydon One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Boman Irani Our film industry as well as the audiences are now open to unconventional pairings and subjects, which has aided my journey greatly.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Andrew Johnson Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.
    Andrew Johnson
    American politician and 17th US president (1808 - 1875)
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  • Susan Sontag Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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