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“History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable; and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.”

Ifs Whole Facts Values Knowledge Conditions Goodness Degrees Elements Foundation Historical Valuable Posse Historical Facts

Book:Contemplation and Action, 1902-14

Source: Contemplation and Action, 1902-14

“Fashion is not a real element of beauty in external objects; and to persons who possess a good endowment of Form, Constructiveness and Ideality, intrinsic elegance is much more pleasing and permanently agreeable, than forms of less merit, recommended merely by being new. Hence there is a beauty which never palls, and there are objects over which fashion exercises no control.”

Persons Real Form Fashion Objects Exercise Elements Merit Elegance Endowment

Author:George Combe

“When speaking of a "body of knowledge" or of "the results of research," e.g., we tacitly assign the same cognitive status to inherited knowledge and to independently acquired knowledge. To counteract this tendency a special effort is required to transform inherited knowledge into genuine knowledge by revitalizing its original discovery, and to discriminate between the genuine and the spurious elements of what claims to be inherited knowledge.”

Body Results Effort Special Elements Research Discovery Claims Originals Genuine Tendencies Cognitive

Book:What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies

Source: What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies

“The most important element of breaking into a house is a flashlight, a flashlight will keep ya' on target. You don't wanna be stummblin' around, and it will make it a lot crista-crystal-cleaner and crystal like surranwrap you... I'll never tell you a lie 'cause we're gonna get you through this successfully and you wanna have all the stuff were givin' ya now.”

Important Lying House Causes Stuff Elements Target Crystals Cleaners Flashlights

Author:Brandon DiCamillo

“A religious phenomenon will only be recognized as such if it is grasped at its own level, that is to say, if it is studied as something religious. To try to grasp the essence of such phenomenon by means of physiology, psychology, sociology, economics, linguistics, art or any other study is false; it misses the one unique and irreducible element in it - the element of the sacred.”

Ifs Trying Mean Art Religious Levels Study Psychology Missing Elements Unique Economics Essence Sacred Phenomenon Sociology Linguistics Physiology

Author:Mircea Eliade

“You read reviews by top reviewers of films that not only had remarkably interesting scores, but films whose effectiveness was absolutely enhanced, and frequently created by the music, yet the reviewers seem unaware that their emotions and their nervous reactions to the films have been affected by the scoring. This is a serious flaw. Any film reviewer owes it to himself, and the public, to take every element of the film into account.”

Has Beens Seems Film Interesting Emotion Serious Elements Accounts Reactions Nervous Score Flaws Affected Reviews Effectiveness Reviewers

Author:Jerry Goldsmith

“Speculative Philosophy is the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted. By this notion of 'interpretation' I mean that everything of which we are conscious, as enjoyed, perceived, willed, or thought, shall have the character of a particular instance of the general scheme.”

Mean Ideas Philosophy Character Term Particular Elements Conscious Notion Instance Enjoyed Logical Interpretation Schemes Endeavour

Author:Charles Hartshorne

“When the great religious and philosophical conceptions were alive, thinking people did not extol humility and brotherly love, justice and humanity because it was realistic to maintain such principles and odd and dangerous to deviate from them, or because these maxims were more in harmony with their supposedly free tastes than others. They held to such ideas because they saw in them elements of truth, because they connected them with the idea of logos, whether in the form of God or of a transcendental mind, or even of nature as an eternal principle.”

“It is my conviction that basic Reality is not all that perplexing. What seems difficult to assimilate are the manifold details of Reality, not its fundamental elements.”

Reality Seems Difficult Elements Fundamentals Details Conviction Manifold

Book:The Path: A New Look At Reality

Source: The Path: A New Look At Reality

“Portugal was born in the shadow of the Catholic Church and religion, from the beginning it was the formative element of the soul of the nation and the dominant trait of character of the Portuguese people.”

People Soul Character Nations Born Church Elements Shadow Catholic Traits Dominant Catholic Church Portugal Portuguese

Author:Antonio de Oliveira Salazar

“True repentance has as its constituent elements not only grief and hatred of sin, but also an apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ. It hates the sin, and not simply the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered God's love.”

Hate Christ Sin Grief Elements Hatred Mercy Repentance Penalties God's Love Apprehension Constituents Mercy Of God True Repentance

Book:Moses the Law-giver

Source: Moses the Law-giver

“I mean, there is a certain element that, when you read the bad press about yourself and post it on the web-site, takes the pressure off.”

Mean Certain Elements Pressure Presses Posts About Yourself Site Bad Press

Author:Brian Viglione

“The Internet is a medium only at the bit level. At the human level, it is a conversation that, because of the persistence and linkedness of pages, has elements of a world. It could only be a medium if we absolutely didn't care about it.”

Ifs World Humans Care Bits Levels Internet Conversation Elements Pages Mediums Persistence

Author:David Weinberger

“Whereas Absurdism in Europe seemed a logical, almost inevitable response to the irrationality of war, the analogous elements that surfaced in American drama seemed more a response to a materialist society run amok. The American-style Absurdism seemed to spring full-blown out of television advertisements and situation comedies, which had become new myth-making machines.”

War Running Situation Comedy Style Television Drama Elements Spring Europe Machines Response Myth Inevitable Logical Advertisements Irrationality

Author:Arnold Aronson

“Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency is felt throughout all the subsequent growth of the organism.”

Ifs Felt Growth Education Stage Elements Unity Organisms Deficiency Defective

Book:Essays on the Higher Education

Source: Essays on the Higher Education

“If television once could be seen as ranking among a number of vehicles for conveying expression or information from which we could choose, we no longer have that choice: the televisual has become an intrinsic and determining element of our cultural formation.”

Ifs Choices Numbers Information Television Expression Elements Vehicle Formation Ranking Conveying

Book:Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture

Source: Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture

“I think the central theme about black society is that it has got elements of a defeated society”

Thinking Black Elements Theme Defeated

Author:Steven Biko

“The solution to the novel's legal problem is a satisfyingly intricate one, and nobody will want his money back on the plot. But the echoes that will remain in your mind after you've finished Reversible Errors will mainly have to do with the novel's other elements.”

Want Mind Problem Novel Elements Solutions Errors Finished Plot Echoes Intricate

Author:Wendy Lesser

“School leadership has been identified as another critical element of student success, and subsequently enough resources and training should be provided to our school principals and administrators to allow them to create a strong ecosystem in our schools and support teachers and parents as well.”

Should Wells Has Beens Enough School Strong Parent Support Teacher Students Elements Training Resources Critical Principal Student Success Ecosystems Administrators School Principal

Author:Shaheen Mistri

“Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.”

Self Elements Self Reliance Reliance Power Of God

Book:My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

“The elements which determine the make of any particular sermon are three; the preacher, the material, and the audience; just as the character of any battle is determined by three elements; the gun (including the gunner), the ammunition, and the fortress against which the attack is made.”

Made Character Three Audience Particular Materials Battle Elements Gun Including Determine Determined Preacher Sermons Fortresses Ammunition Gunners

Book:The Joy of Preaching

Source: The Joy of Preaching

“We're going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business - the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.”

Important Demand Elements Highest Attributes

Author:Tom Peters

“The most violent element in society is ignorance.”

Book Social Peace Society Ignorance Gay Elements Library Educational Violent Lgbt Anarchism Anarchist Famous Women Ignorant People Stupidity And Ignorance Individuals And Society Ignorance Is Not Bliss

Book:Anarchism and Other Essays

Source: Anarchism and Other Essays

“Value investing is the discipline of buying shares at a significant discount from their current underlying values and holding them until more of their value is realised. The element of a bargain is the key to the process.”

Values Process Share Keys Discipline Elements Investing Currents Significant Buying Realised Bargains Discounts

Author:Seth Klarman

“You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is enough to change the atmosphere of the room - proving that the sound element in music is a powerful and mysterious agent, which it would be foolish to deride or belittle.”

May Book Enough Would Be Reading Sound Rooms Powerful Imagine Prove Elements Music Is Sitting Notes Foolish Mysterious Agents Atmosphere Piano Belittle

Book:What to Listen For in Music

Source: What to Listen For in Music

“Imagination is all about new possibilities, eventualities that don't exist, counterfactuals, a recombination of elements in new ways. It is about the untested. And the untested is uncertain. It is frightening-even”

Way Imagination Possibility Elements Frightening New Ways Uncertain New Possibilities

Book:Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

Source: Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

“Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.”

Ifs Artist Worst Elements Stones Abandoned Splits Explosions Firing Debris

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“The proper role of humanists is not to bring 'human values' to the attention of technicians otherwise engaged in a purely instrumental approach to their calling, but to demand the restoration of the practical or moral element in callings that have degenerated into techniques.”

Inspirational Humans Values Attention Moral Roles Calling Demand Elements Approach Technique Practicals Engaged Restoration Human Values Technicians

Author:Christopher Lasch

“I realize that this is not what you want to put on a cover with Wonder Woman emblazoned on it. She could be in trouble, but she doesn't need to be completely out of control. So whenever I'm doing these covers, I try to make sure that there's an element where, even if there is danger, it's not something where agency is taken away from her.”

Ifs Want Needs Trying Book Realizing Wonder Taken Trouble Danger Elements What You Want Comic Agency Comic Book Wonder Woman

Author:Cliff Chiang

“You are water, you understand - electrified water. The elements and balance of ocean water match the blood in your human body. Humans were made from the ocean. This is one of the greatest secrets of creation.”

Humans Made Body Water Secret Blood Creation Balance Elements Ocean Human Body Ocean Water

Author:Barbara Marciniak

“I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.”

Inspirational Years Elements Conscious Smell Los Angeles

Author:Christopher Lee

“All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story... You've got good characters... People think there's some dramatic difference between writing 'Little Bear' and the 'Hunger Games,' and as a writer, for me, there isn't.”

People Thinking Needs Writing Littles Character Stories Games Differences Bears Elements Hunger Dramatic Good Story Good Character

Author:Suzanne Collins

“Before exulatation had vanished, I felt as if I had been granted a marvellous privilege. Out of the inscrutable waters a beautiful fish had somehow leaped to show me fleetingly the life and spirit of his element.”

Ifs Shows Beautiful Spirit Felt Water Sea Elements Rivers Privilege Fishes Boat Granted Lakes Fishing Show Me Marvellous Inscrutable

Author:Zane Grey

“It was interesting to have both very a conservative and very liberal parent, because we deal with both these elements in the world and we have both elements within ourselves.”

World Parent Interesting Deals Elements Conservative Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Some of the films that I have really enjoyed include: The Fifth Element, The Crow, Toys, Seven, Forrest Gump, The Lion King, 12 Monkeys, Doctor Zhivago, Being There, and Trainspotting.”

Film Kings Elements Doctors Seven Enjoyed Lions Toys Monkeys Fifth Rama Crow Being There Doctor Zhivago Forrest Gump Trainspotting Lion King Fifth Element

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The primary cause of disorder and lawlessness today, as throughout history, is the poverty of the many in contrast to the affluence of the few. But a new element of unrest has been added: a growing awareness that mass poverty is caused by defective institutions that prevent our harnessing the physical capabilities of science, engineering, management and labor to create general affluence; in other words, a growing awareness that poverty in any country that is or can be industrialized, is man's not nature's fault.”

“We are free today substantially, but the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility. It will be an impossibility because wealth will be concentrated in the hands of a few. A Republic cannot stand upon bayonets, and when the day comes when the wealth of the nation will be in the hands of a few, then we must rely upon the wisdom of the best elements in the country to readjust the laws of the nations to the changed conditions.”

Country Wisdom Hands Today Law Politics Nations Wealth Economy Conditions Changed Elements Rely Liberalism Republic Impossibility Rely Upon Bayonets Concentration Of Wealth

Author:James Madison

“The dissolution of society bids fair to become the termination of a career of which property is the end and aim, because such a career contains the elements of self-destruction. Democracy in government, brotherhood in society, equality in rights and privileges, and universal education, foreshadow the next higher plane of society to which experience, intelligence and knowledge are steadily tending.”

Source: The Indian Journals, 1859-62

“There are so many wonderful shows that come out through the year. What makes some stick is an unknown factor, you know? It's gotta be the right show at the right time. Really, you've got to have magic elements line up. But I felt that this was going to be something that was really going to ring true to people.”

People Knows Years Shows Felt Lines Wonderful Magic Elements Sticks Rings Factors Right Time Through The Years

Author:America Ferrera

“There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.”

States Left Doubt Fool Elements Hollywood Organization Police No Doubt Broadway Police State

Book:Elia Kazan: Interviews

Source: Elia Kazan: Interviews

“Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.”

Said Seems Elements Anger Going Away Bitterness Echoes Nastiness Anger And Bitterness

Author:Jane Goodall

“Monopolistic capitalism is to blame for this; it sunders the right to own property from responsibility that owning property involves. Those who own only a few stocks have no practical control of any industry. They vote by postcard proxy, but they have rarely even seen "their" company. The two elements which ought to be inextricably joined in any true conception of private property - ownership and responsibility - are separated. Those who own do not manage; those who manage; those who manage and work do not control or own.”

“There is a system and a flow and an organization to the structure of the universe. Just like there's a system and a flow and an organization to the human body, to atomic structures, to the elements.”

Humans Body Universe Elements Flow Organization Structure Mysticism Human Body Atomic Structure

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Religions have been universal in the sense that all the people we know anything about have had a religion. But the differences among them are so great and so shocking that any common element that can be extracted is meaningless.... The older apologists for Christianity seem to have been better advised than some modern ones in condemning every religion but one as an impostor, as at bottom some kind of demon worship or at any rate a superstitious figment.”

Source: The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy

“I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in.”

Church Christianity Atheism Huge Elements Bases Positive Atheism Believer

Author:Bill Gates

“The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men, they reared the transcendent conception of a God.”

Men Ideas Born Atheism Elements Conception Rude Insignificant Transcendent Jehovah

Author:Herman Melville

“All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.”

Humans Made Philosophy Results Progress Atheism Elements Positive Atheism Skepticism Human Freedom Methodical

Author:Charles Sanders Peirce

“If, when we compare two versions of a story, the second known to be a retelling of the first, and find that the second has more of a miraculous element, we may reasonably conclude we have legendary (or midrashic or whatever) embellishment. The tale has grown in the telling. This sort of comparison is common in extrabiblical research and no one holds that it cannot properly indicate legend formation there.”

Source: Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity

“Religions have a strong binding function and a cohesive element. They emphasize the primacy of the community as opposed to the individual, and they also help set one community apart from another that doesn't share their beliefs.”

Helping Individual Belief Strong Community Share Atheism Elements Function Positive Atheism Binding Primacy

Author:Frans de Waal

“I like to prepare as much as possible beforehand, but there's definitely that element of fear when you're on set, and you have to be conscious of it and use that fear to drive you to work harder.”

Use Hard Work Elements Conscious Harder Work Harder

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

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