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Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private

“The yearning for the common good comes from the refusal to accept that perhaps Americans have very little in common apart from the elements of a sometimes successful civil religion based around a sentimental, indeed sometimes teary-eyed, attachment to the constitution and a belief in the quasi-divine wisdom of the founding fathers.”

Littles Sometimes Father Belief Common Accepting Successful Divine Elements Constitution Attachment Yearning Sentimental Founding Refusal Common Good Divine Wisdom

Author:Simon Critchley

“Humor is in fact an essential element in the mirth of creation. We can see how, in many matters in our lives, God wants to prod us into taking things a bit more lightly.”

Want Matter Facts Bits Our Lives Creation Essentials Elements Mirth

Book:God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time : a Conversation with Peter Seewald

Source: God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time : a Conversation with Peter Seewald

“A fine poem combines the elements of meaning, music, and a form like a living frame that holds it together.”

Together Form Fine Elements

Author:Arnold Adoff

“Falsehood is a critical element in fiction. Part of the thrill of being told a story is the chance of being hoodwinked. . .The telling of lies is a sort of sleight of hand that displays our deepest feelings about life.”

Stories Feelings Hands Lying Chance Fiction Elements Critical Display Falsehood Thrill Sleight Of Hand Deepest Feelings

Author:John Cheever

“In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . .of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.”

Art Said Silence Expression Elements Technique Contradiction Devices Works Of Art Avoidance

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.”

Moments Facts Lying Elements Realization Kitsch

Book:Essays on Music

Source: Essays on Music

“Regard ye the world as a man's body, which is afflicted with diverse ailments, and the recovery of which dependeth upon the harmonizing of all its component elements.”

Men World Body Elements Regard Recovery Diverse Components Ailments

Author:Bahá'u'lláh

“In work we act under the predominant motive of external, rational necessities; in pleasure, under the predominant motive of other, equally general necessities of human nature. Rest or recreation is the element in which the personality seeks to renew its strength from these stimuli that exhaust the reserve of human resources. It's an element introduced into life by the person himself.”

Humans Persons Pleasure Human Nature Personality Elements Resources Rational Motive Reserves Stimulus Recreation Human Resources

Book:What Is to Be Done?

Source: What Is to Be Done?

“We lost faith in authority in the '50s, up to a point, and we spawned a lot of anti-heroes in movies, which were refreshing and open. But at this point, with the distrust that's there and the disillusionment with leadership that is so acute, we need some kind of a focus on taking the irony out and taking the anti-hero element away.”

Needs Kind Lost Focus Hero Authority Elements Irony Distrust Disillusionment Refreshing Lost Faith Anti Hero

Author:Brendan Gleeson

“Linking financial element to energy consumption I think has a huge role if you think about a display instrument that could teach us about what we are using, how much it costs us, how much it is saving, and therefore change our decisions.”

Ifs Thinking Energy Decision Roles Teach Huge Cost Elements Instruments Financial Saving Display Consumption Energy Consumption

Author:Dan Ariely

“There's an element of realism to it. I immersed myself more in the subject as a young adult. Then I started to get involved with a lot of people that were involved in it, and they would just bring me along basically. And I learned and decided that my Christian charity, what I wanted to do to serve God's will, was to help people that were ensnared by the demonic.”

People Helping Wanted Christian Young Subjects Involved Elements Adults Decided Charity Young Adult Gods Will Realism Serving God Get Involved Demonic

Author:Ralph Sarchie

“I love helicopters. In fact, my wife and my friends, the myth of the chopper in the sky is that Len's going to stop and look at it. I love, probably, destroying them, yes. You know, It's the big elements, the big toys, the trucks the helicopters, and things like that. You have a few tools to play with.”

Knows Looks Play Facts Bigs Wife Sky Elements My Friends Tools My Wife Myth Destroying Toys Truck Helicopters Choppers

Author:Len Wiseman

“I think there's an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D'Artagnan. In the very beginning, she's using him in a pretty cynical way. When she gets to know him, she sees qualities in him that she recognizes and it's almost like trying to remake the past, but of course, it doesn't work.”

Thinking Knows Way Trying Past Courses Quality Elements Innocence Cynical Remakes

Author:Adrian Hodges

“My roots are very closely tied to the DNA of the brand. Growing up in Serbia where women are unapologetically very feminine, I came to London and realised that I wanted to keep this feminine element but give it a twist and challenge ideas of classical beauty.”

Giving Ideas Wanted Challenges Growing Up Growing Elements Roots London Brands Feminine Tied Dna Twists Realised Serbia

Author:Roksanda Ilincic

“I do think there is a completely different notion to glamour today. I think modern glamour is more effortless, easy, and real. Moreover, I think it's about constantly challenging classical ideas by bringing in unexpected and different elements; for example a long, elegant evening skirt paired with a simple t-shirt on the red carpet. I think this approach is the future.”

“It's to a writer's advantage to contain within himself elements of each sex, or any sex. It's to his advantage because it makes him able to write from the female point of view as well as the male. In some cases, of course, you will find some homosexual writers who can only write from a f - - -'s point of view. But I don't regard myself as a f - - -! Some people may. Also audiences wanted escapism. They don't like too much protest or criticism of their way of life.”

People Way Writing Wells May Able Wanted Courses Sex Views Cases Audience Too Much Elements Advantage Female Criticism Regard Males Point Of View Protest Homosexual Escapism

Author:Tennessee Williams

“That's the thing about acting - it does have the feeling of downhill skiing. When it's really all going right, you know your lines, you know what's important to your character, you pick the strongest reactions possible to elements in the story. But then you let it all go and you're in the moment and stuff happens. It surprises you and it's super strong; it's like you're living life in a slightly heightened way in the time between "action" and "cut."”

“I haven't ever seen a period drama that has a fantasy element to it, that's set in London, that's as lavish as it is, and that's made for American TV.”

Made Fantasy Havens Tvs Periods Drama Elements London

Author:Oliver Jackson-Cohen

“There is an important erotic element in A Thousand and One Nights, which is one of the keys to understanding the Orient.”

Important Night Understanding Keys Thousand Elements Erotic One Night

Author:Tahar Ben Jelloun

“Five centuries from now - barring unimaginable catastrophe - the moon will be developed real estate. There's economic incentive to exploit the moon - the helium-3 will be useful in powering fusion reactors, and the rare earth elements could supplant the limited terrestrial supply of these materials.”

Real Earth Five Economic Century Materials Moon Elements Estates Catastrophe Incentives Exploits Unimaginable Fusion Helium

Author:Seth Shostak

“Some governments are prepared to give up elements of sovereignty to address the threat of global climate change.”

Giving Government Giving Up Elements Threat Prepared Climate Climate Change Addresses Sovereignty

Author:Richard N. Haass

“The seminal elements of what makes a story great - challenge, struggle, resolution - are the same whether we're talking about story content for a movie such as 'Rain Man,' or telling a purposeful story to forge new business relationships or conclude a fruitful transaction, such as acquiring an NBA franchise.”

Men Stories Challenges Talking Struggle Elements Rain Resolution Nba Transactions New Business Business Relationship

Author:Peter Guber

“You talk about seeing around corners as an element of success. That's what differentiates the good leader. Not many people have it. Not many people can predict that corner. That would be a characteristic of great leaders.”

People Would Be Leader Seeing Elements Corners Characteristics Great Leader Around The Corner Differentiate Good Leader

Author:Jack Welch

“Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis.”

World Failing Elements Neurosis Whining

Author:Albert Ellis

“Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth.”

Long Two Character Growth Situation Elements Obedience Range Maturity

Book:Effective Biblical Counseling

Source: Effective Biblical Counseling

“I would that the healing power of Christ might spread over the earth and be diffused through our society and into our homes, that it might cure men's hearts of the evil and adverse elements of greed and hate and conflict. I believe it could happen. I believe it must happen. If the lamb is to lie down with the lion, then peace must overcome conflict, healing must mend injury.”

Ifs Men Believe Heart Home Might Happens Earth Lying Hate Evil I Believe Christ Healing Conflict Elements Overcoming Greed Spread Cures Injury Our Society Lions Lambs Adverse

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“To say no at the right time, and then stand by it, is the first element of success. He is the wise man who, for all his life, can keep mind and soul and body clean.”

Men Mind Firsts Soul Body Wise Elements Clean Right Time Soul And Body

Author:David Starr Jordan

“Analysis is simplifying, breaking down things into parts, picking out strands and elements. Analysis is comparing unknown things with things that are known. Analysis also involves picking out relationships and putting them back together as a whole.”

Whole Together Known Elements Compare Analysis Breaking Down Back Together Strands Unknown Things

Author:Edward de Bono

“Almost all negative moods are missing one key element - calm. By learning calm, you learn to deal with difficult areas. Calm allows us to achieve what we want, without being overwhelmed by anxiety.”

Want Difficult Deals Achieve Missing Keys Elements Anxiety Areas Negative Calm Mood Overwhelmed Being Overwhelmed

Book:Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness

Source: Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness

“In systems thinking, increases in understanding are believed to be obtainable by expanding the systems to be understood, not by reducing them to their elements. Understanding proceeds from the whole to its parts, not from the parts to the whole as knowledge does.”

Thinking Doe Whole Understanding Elements Understood Increase Expanding Reducing Systems Thinking

Author:Russell L. Ackoff

“Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten....America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness-justice.”

Ifs Has Beens Country Would Be America Loses Justice Pay Crime Greatness Elements Pages Determination Forgotten Ugly Debt Recalls American History Indispensable Misdeeds

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table. We come to it freshly, in the dewy youth of the day, and when our spiritual and sensual elements are in better accord than at a later period; so that the material delights of the morning meal are capable of being fully enjoyed, without any very grievous reproaches, whether gastric or conscientious, for yielding even a trifle overmuch to the animal department of our nature.”

Source: Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography

“While we have put an utmost emphasis on Gross Domestic Products (GDP) as a barometer for the overall economy until now, we have not paid much attention in detecting a level of social welfare. We, as a member of the society, must now take steps to create an index to indicate other critical elements to be focused on in order to restore reliability of world statistics.”

“Racism is a destructive and artificially-manufactured element in the collective human psyche designed to fragment the natural desire of human beings to know and love one another”

Knows Humans Desire Natural Human Beings Elements Racism And Love Destructive Collectives Fragments Love One Another Human Psyche

Author:Jane Urquhart

“May I wish for you the knowledge...that marriages do not take place, they are made by hand; that there is always an element of discipline involved; that however perfect the honeymoon, the time will come, however brief it is, when you wish she would fall downstairs and break a leg. This goes for her too. But the mood will pass, if you give it time.”

Ifs Giving May Made Hands Fall Wish Perfect Break Discipline Involved Elements Legs Mood Falling Down Honeymoon Break A Leg

Author:Raymond Chandler

“Air and Water can just swirl around being swirly, and Fire is just kind of aggressive, but my gut feeling is that Earth needs to work for a living. Earth has stuff to be doing. Earth is busy. Earth is solid and responsible and works hard. Earth is reliable. Earth is the designated driver of the elements and will always come over and feed the cat when you're out of town.”

Needs Kind Hard Feelings Earth Stuff Water Fire Air Hard Work Elements Cat Towns Responsible Busy Guts Drivers Aggressive Gut Feelings Swirls Air And Water

Author:Ursula Vernon

“America was founded by the refuse of the religious fanatics of England, these undesirable elements that came over on the Mayflower. Ignorant, religious fanatics who land here and abuse the Indians.”

America Religious Land Elements Abuse England Refuse Ignorant Fanatics Undesirable Religious Fanatics Mayflower

Author:Frank Zappa

“Each element of the cosmos is positively woven from all the others...The universe holds together, and only one way of considering it is really possible, that is, to take it as a whole, in one piece.”

Way Whole Together Universe Pieces Elements One Way Cosmos Considering Positively Woven One Piece

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“It is always there, of course, when you come back from the green world. You have been living by sunrise and sunset, by wind and rain, surrounded by the ebb and flow of lives that respond only to such simple, rhythmic elements. But now the tone and tempo of the days switch. Instead of harmony, jangle.”

World Has Beens Courses Simple Wind Elements Rain Flow Harmony Green Tone Sunset Sunrise Tempo Ebb And Flow Sunrise And Sunset Wind And Rain Green World

Book:The Winds of Mara

Source: The Winds of Mara

“Life a life of Spiritual Adventure. Much like a wild goose the Spirit of God cannot be tracked or tamed. An element of danger, an air of unpredictability surround Him. And while the name may sound a little sacrilegious, I cannot think of a better description of what it's like to pursue the Spirit's leading through life.”

Source: Wild Goose Chase: Reclaim the Adventure of Pursuing God

“Authentic Christianity is not just about keeping and protecting the faith and keeping the rules. It is even more than living to deepen your relationship with Jesus. Authentic Christianity, the real deal, is about embracing all of these important elements.”

Important Real Jesus Deals Christianity Elements Our Relationship Authentic Christianity

Author:Joseph Stowell

“Man has much more to fear from the passions of his fellow-creatures, than from the convulsions of the elements.”

Men Passion Creatures Elements Fellows

Book:The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon: Historical Works, Autobiographical Writings and Private Letters, Including The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon: Historical Works, Autobiographical Writings and Private Letters, Including The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Responsibility and commitment are key elements in meeting obligations.”

Responsibility Keys Elements Commitment Meetings Obligation

Author:Zig Ziglar

“The qualitative factors upon which most stress is laid are the nature of the business and the character of the management. These elements are exceedingly important, but they are also exceedingly difficult to deal with intelligently.”

Important Character Difficult Deals Elements Stress Management Factors Qualitative

Book:Security Analysis: The Classic 1934 Edition

Source: Security Analysis: The Classic 1934 Edition

“You can hire your advisor and then just apply a windage factor, like I used to do when I was a rifle shooter. I'd just adjust for so many miles an hour wind. Or you can learn the basic elements of your advisor's trade. You don't have to learn very much, by the way, because if you learn just a little then you can make him explain why he's right.”

Ifs Way Littles Used Hours Wind Elements Trade Miles Factors Rifles Advisors Shooter

Author:Charlie Munger

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