“ Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings. ”
- George F. Will- Copy
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“ The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity. ”
- Harlan Ellison- Copy
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“ There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. ”
- Sir Thomas Browne- Copy
- 577
“ When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure. ”
- Alice Hoffman- Copy
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“ A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. ”
- John Stuart Mill- Copy
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“ A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. ”
- Guillaume Apollinaire- Copy
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“ Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. ”
- Tryon Edwards- Copy
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“ Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements. ”
- John Christian Bovee- Copy
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“ First the stalk — then the roots. First the need — then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus — then the elements needed for its growth. ”
- Robert Collier- Copy
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“ It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown. ”
- Diana Cooper- Copy
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“ It is conventional to call "monster" any blending of dissonant elements. I call "monster" every original inexhaustible beauty. ”
- Alfred Jarry- Copy
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“ It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne. ”
- William M. Evarts- Copy
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“ It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on. ”
- Jack Kerouac- Copy
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“ Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis. ”
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin- Copy
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“ Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds. ”
- Christopher Marlowe- Copy
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“ No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship. ”
- Francis Crawford- Copy
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“ Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness. ”
- George Holbrook Jackson- Copy
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“ Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society. ”
- Niccolo Machiavelli- Copy
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“ The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
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“ The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history. ”
- Thomas Campbell- Copy
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“ The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation. ”
- Giuseppe Mazzini- Copy
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“ The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two. ”
- Bertolt Brecht- Copy
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“ When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension. ”
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan- Copy
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“ Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
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