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“Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.”

Should Facts Special Elements Structure Statements Intimate Logical Emphasis Theoretical

Book:The Structure of Social Action: A Study in Social Theory with Special Reference to a Group of Recent European Writers

Source: The Structure of Social Action: A Study in Social Theory with Special Reference to a Group of Recent European Writers

“The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.”

Important Individual Rights Violence Elements Highest Historical Libertarian Esteem Rejection Free Society Individual Liberty Individual Rights Initiation

Book:Freedom Under Siege

Source: Freedom Under Siege

“It's funny, though, with films, because you can incorporate a variety of elements, and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it can work against you.”

Thinking Sometimes Funny Film Elements Variety

Author:Guy Pearce

“One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.”

Important Three Teaching Listening Elements Performing Conducting

Author:Itzhak Perlman

“The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we inhabit are not only critical elements in the quality of life we enjoy - they are a reflection of the majesty of our Creator.”

Enjoy Water Quality Air Land Drink Elements Reflection Creator Critical Breathe Majesty Quality Of Life

Author:Rick Perry

“The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.”

Break Tree Wind Grew Elements Grew Up My Favorite Bullying Flexible Withstanding

Author:Pink

“After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.”

Years Universe Stars Generations Evolution Ten Elements Nuclear Billions Evolve Chemicals Indispensable Prerequisites Furnaces

Author:John Polkinghorne

“What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.”

Knows May Stories Elements Being True Tabloids

Author:Dennis Quaid

“A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout - rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle demanded of a good story - but the chord has to be resolved.”

Should Real Stories Tears Conflict Elements Should Have Rage Heartache Chords Good Story Catharsis Dissonance

Author:Josh Radnor

“Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.”

Artist Effects Produce Elements Tricks Artistic Excellent Endeavor Bullets Superficial Employed Initials Arrows Brackets Ornamentation

Author:Paul Rand

“For me, personally, skiing holds everything. I used to race cars, but skiing is a step beyond that. It removes the machinery and puts you one step closer to the elements. And it's a complete physical expression of freedom.”

Used Race Steps Car Expression Elements Remove Machinery Skiing Race Car

Author:Robert Redford

“Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.”

Thinking Heart Stills Self Sin Missing Pride Elements Core Features Arrogance Conceit Enmity Self Centeredness Centeredness Haughtiness Sin Of Pride

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is refined, the healthier it will be for us. Food can affect the mind, and deficiencies of certain elements in the body can promote mental depression.”

Mind States Body Certain Natural Elements Refined Deficiency Additives

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“'Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.”

Running Fighting Break Elements Green Speed Screens Jumping Wire Trilogies Point Break

Author:Keanu Reeves

“Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.”

Different Whole Able Film Vision Elements Creating Unique

Author:Tim Robbins

“There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.”

Long Ideas Enough Truth Funny Lasts Elements Corny Berlin

Author:Irving Berlin

“The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.”

Powerful Elements Marketing Advertising Most Powerful Copywriting Great Advertising Advertising Industry

Author:William Bernbach

“I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.”

Said Race Style Elements Sticks Insult Throwing Mud Textbooks Adjectives Prominent Bloggers Columnists Campaigning Anything Goes

Author:Karl Rove

“I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.”

Men Facts Elements Female My Family

Author:Salman Rushdie

“When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.”

People Children Book Term Fantasy Novel Elements India Praise West Midnight History Books

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game.”

Reality Games Struggle Team Football Elements Mythology Warrior Narrative Grades Combat Fourth Uniforms Grounded Fourth Grade

Author:Steve Sabol

“We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.”

Technology Depends Civilization Elements Crucial Science And Technology Science Technology Technology And Education

Author:Carl Sagan

“A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.”

Men Courses Belief Difficult Path Century Walking Civilization Elements Logic Distance Justify Customs Heritage

Book:Flight to Arras

Source: Flight to Arras

“Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however multiform in its evolution.”

Matter Life Is Spirit Existence Evolution Elements Constituents Manifold

Book:The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

Source: The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

“One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature of the material elements composing the physical and astral corpses, brought about by the burning.”

Lying Mother Conditions Materials Elements Advantage Burning Corpses Restoration Mother Nature Composing Cremation Sanitary

Book:Theosophical Review

Source: Theosophical Review

“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.”

Pain Positive Elements Philosophical Satisfaction Satisfaction In Life Elements Of Life Freedom From Pain

Book:The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)

Source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)

“I feel so entirely in my element with a full orchestra; even if my mortal enemies were marshalled before me, I could lead them, master them, surround them, or repulse them.”

Ifs Feels Enemy Masters Elements Mortals Surround Orchestra Mortal Enemies

Book:Letters of Robert Schumann

Source: Letters of Robert Schumann

“It's fun to work on location because you get the look and feel of everything, but it's nice to be on a stage because you can control the elements.”

Feels Looks Fun Nice Stage Elements Location

Author:Sarah Shahi

“We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.”

Matter Return Elements All Things Seeds Nothingness

Author:William Shakespeare

“My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.”

Two Team Love You Elements Respect Difficulty Affection Coexist Reunited Reuniting

Author:Shakira

“Obviously neither 'American Idol' nor 'Dancing With the Stars' is a variety show in the classic sense, but the way they incorporate elements of drama, comedy and suspense is moderately ingenious.”

Way Shows Stars Comedy Drama Elements Dancing Variety Suspense Classic Idols Ingenious American Idol Dancing With The Stars

Author:Tom Shales

“It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.”

Values Elements Understood Various Contact Comparison Relative Worthlessness Relative Value

Author:Hu Shih

“When it comes to other celebrity brands, I think a lot of people do a great job, but it can't be all about them. Everybody doesn't want to just look like the celebrity, because they can't. They just want one element of that style.”

People Thinking Want Looks Jobs Style Elements Brands Great Job

Author:Jessica Simpson

“Well the real concept of basic needs if you cut it right down are simply the physical needs that are unavoidable for all of us. So to have enough calories to keep our bodies going. Have shelter from extreme elements. To have water that is safe to drink, So I think that's the core of it.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Wells Real Enough Body Water Cutting Drink Safe Elements Concepts Extremes Core Shelter Calories Basic Needs

Author:Peter Singer

“Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.”

Water Baby Elements Hot Trials Native Hot Water Baby Boy

Author:Edith Sitwell

“A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.”

Stories Together Three Adventure Lovers Elements Love Story Beloved Convincing

Book:A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck

Source: A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck

“I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.”

Art Artist Effects Elements Direct Accounts Representation Day To Day Direct Effect

Book:Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

“Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.”

Important Player Sacrifice Materials Elements Chess Compensation Chess Players

Author:Boris Spassky

“An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.”

Facts Desire Theory Elements Argument Property Communist

Book:Social Statics: Great Essays

Source: Social Statics: Great Essays

“Mitt Romney's primary season embrace of the social and economic agenda of the more rabid elements of his party doomed him, especially the shrill immigration rhetoric and the harshly insensitive theory that no additional sacrifice or contribution should be sought from those at the top.”

Should Social Party Sacrifice Economic Theory Elements Seasons Embrace Immigration Primaries Contribution Agendas Rhetoric Doomed Romney Insensitive

Author:Eliot Spitzer

“I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.”

Writing Trying Different Sometimes Feelings Emotional Painting Communication Elements Pages Cinematic

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“On the sequel, you've lost the element of surprise. Usually, on the first one you may not go very, very deep into character; the second one you start to explore the character a bit more.”

Firsts May Character Lost Bits Elements Surprise Very Deep Sequels Element Of Surprise

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.”

Elements Sacred Scripture Extremist Of Context Sacred Scripture

Author:Cat Stevens

“A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.”

Seems Happens Rooms Fronts Elements Wave Positivity Stranger British Welcome Pairs Significance Openness Boots Contrast Platforms Farewell Umbrella Fling Muddy Porch Front Porches

Author:Dan Stevens

“We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.”

Should Ideas School Chance Quality Equal Elements Should Have Notion Equality Pursuit Opening Traditional Endowment

Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“A changeling is one child substituted for another. I couldn't find anything more apt. We had to kind of fight that supernatural element in the publicity, and I offered to try and find another title, but Clint liked it, and it stayed.”

Trying Kind Children Fighting Elements Titles Publicity Changelings Supernatural Elements

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.”

Stories Age School Romance Drama Elements High School Dresses Dancing Tension Coming Of Age Prom Limos

Author:Adora Svitak

“One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.”

Looks Quality Careers Stage Style Easier Comfort Elements Musical Zone Comfort Zone Unpredictable Predictable Center Stage Musical Style

Author:Taylor Swift

“No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.”

I Can Fighting Winning Elements Overcoming Bother

Author:William Howard Taft

“If you're using live bass versus orchestral bass, you've got to make sure that you're not stepping on the toes of the other elements, so you've got to balance it out.”

Ifs Balance Elements Toes Versus Bass

Author:Serj Tankian

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