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“The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface.”

Important Different Results Common Effects Expression Elements Structure Series Size Surface Corresponding Atomic Structure

Author:Johannes Stark

“There are so many different kinds of writing and so many ways to work that the only rule is this: do what works. Almost everything has been tried and found to succeed for somebody. The methods, even the ideas of successful writers contradict each other in a most heartening way, and the only element I find common to all successful writers is persistence-an overwhelming determination to succeed.”

Way Writing Kind Has Beens Ideas Different Found Common Successful Succeed Elements Determination Method Persistence Overwhelming Different Kinds Determination To Succeed

Book:For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners

Source: For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners

“If E is considered to be a continuously divisible quantity, this distribution is possible in infinitely many ways. We consider, however-this is the most essential point of the whole calculation-E to be composed of a well-defined number of equal parts and use thereto the constant of nature h = 6.55 ×10-27 erg sec. This constant multiplied by the common frequency ? of the resonators gives us the energy element E in erg, and dividing E by E we get the number P of energy elements which must be divided over the N resonators.”

Ifs Way Giving Wells Whole Use Science Energy Common Numbers Equal Essentials Elements Constant Definitions Defined Divided Quantity Distribution Frequency Calculations Dividing Ergs

Author:Max Planck

“An important advance in the life of a people is the transformation of the religion of fear into the moral religion. But one must avoid the prejudice that regards the religions of primitive peoples as pure fear religions and those of the civilized races as pure moral religions. All are mixed forms, though the moral element predominates in the higher levels of social life. Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of the idea of God.”

Source: Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms

“The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain.”

Pain Suffering Common Expression Elements Significant Vans Pollock Frida

Author:Billy Cannon

“When common sense sees a puzzling phenomenon it looks for a causal agent. When it sees organization it looks for an organizer. This works amazingly well for purposes ranging from the diagnosis of diseases to the creation of governments. But it cannot account for emergence ... the appearance of complex phenomena not predictable from the basic elements and processes alone.”

Source: Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age

“Inevitably I came to associate any wine I met with a specific place and a particular slant of history. I learned to perceive more than could be deduced from an analysis of the physical elements in the glass. For me, an important part of the pleasure of wine is its reflection of the total environment that produced it. If I find in a wine no hint of where it was grown, no mark of the summer when the fruit ripened, and no indication of the usages common among those who made it, I am frustrated and disappointed. Because that is what a good, honest wine should offer.”

Source: A Vineyard in My Glass

“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

“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

“Crafting, or 'making things,' has always been a delightful pastime of mine because it requires putting common elements together in order to achieve a lovely something that nobody needs.”

Needs Together Order Common Achieve Mines Elements Lovely Hobbies Delightful Pastime

Author:Amy Sedaris

“The greatness of common sense, and its title to reverence, appear in this, that it deals with vast complexity, that is, with the innumerable elements of a situation. Common sense discerns and judges a path through this knotted and tangled maze.”

Deals Common Situation Path Greatness Judging Elements Common Sense Titles Complexity Reverence Tangled Mazes

Author:James Vila Blake

“I think the common elements first are that, basically, we are entering markets or in markets that are deregulating or have recently deregulated, and so they have become competitive, moving from monopoly franchise-type businesses to competitive, market-oriented businesses.”

Thinking Firsts Moving Common Type Elements Competition Entering Monopoly

Author:Bill Vaughan

“The thing that all sports have in common is that they have no fantasy elements, which is a little weird.”

Littles Sports Common Fantasy Elements

Author:Jesse Schell

“We should not measure our space-faring era by where footprints have been laid.... We should measure our era by how many people take no notice at all. A legacy rises to become culture only when its elements are so common that they no longer attract comment.”

People Should Has Beens Culture Space Common Elements Eras Legacy Comment Footprint

Book:The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

Source: The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

“A quick and sound judgment, good common sense, kind feeling, and an instinctive perception of character, in these are the elements of what is called tact, which has so much to do with acceptability and success in life.”

Kind Character Feelings Sound Common Elements Judgment Perception Common Sense Success In Life Politeness Tact Sound Judgment

Author:Charles Simmons

“Freud, Jung thought, had been a great discoverer of facts about the mind, but far too inclined to leave the solid ground of "critical reason and common sense." Freud for his part criticized Jung for being gullible about occult phenomena and infatuated with Oriental religions; he viewed with sardonic and unmitigated skepticism Jung's defense of religious feelings as an integral element in mental health. For Freud, religion was a psychological need projected onto culture, the child's feeling of helplessness surviving in adults, to be analyzed rather than admired.”

“There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten.”

Wells Imagination Common Enemy Elements Originals Common Sense Reasoning Massive Composition Beaten Commanders Sinister Puzzled

Book:The World Crisis, 1911-1918

Source: The World Crisis, 1911-1918

“As we begin to plan for a new human society, we need to foster common values about clean air, water, and other elements of self-sustenance. These, along with a complete inventory of Earth's resources, will form the basis for a holistic approach to cybernated decision-making.”

“There are many different techniques and forms of meditation. The common element among these techniques is that the person takes time out from the daily pace of life to close their eyes and reflect on thoughts or images that create internal feelings of peace and relaxation.”

Persons Different Feelings Eye Form Common Meditation Elements Technique Internals Pace Take Time Relaxation Pace Of Life

Author:Tim McCarthy

“A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.”

Language Common Elements Obvious Binding Common Language

Author:Michael Howard

“Tuthmosis IV was, like his father Amenhotep II, a belligerent pharaoh and one of the first to wage war without provocation beyond Egypt's boundaries. As a result of his aggressive attacks slaves and foreign elements were common in Egypt. Consequently, there was more intermarriage during his reign than at other times. Egypt was visited by merchants and traders and was extremely prosperous and cosmopolitan during this period.”

Firsts War Father Results Common Periods Elements Slave Boundaries Aggressive Reign Egypt Prosperous Merchants Traders Provocation Pharaohs Intermarriage

Author:Michael Tsarion

“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

“We are here a nation, composed of the most heterogeneous elements-Protestants and Catholics, English, French, German, Irish, Scotch, every one, let it be remembered, with his traditions, with his prejudices. In each of these conflicting antagonistic elements, however, there is a common spot of patriotism, and the only true policy is that which reaches that common patriotism and makes it vibrate in all toward common ends and common aspirations.”

Ends Nations Common Policy Elements Tradition Prejudice Catholic Spots Remembered Aspiration Protestants Scotch Vibrate

Author:Wilfrid Laurier

“One of the great purposes of religion itself is being hindered by an exclusive-ism that doesn't take into account the common elements and values that we actually share.”

Purpose Values Common Share Elements Accounts Exclusive Isms

Author:Thomas Keating

“All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time.”

Men Trying Lasts Common Mistake Pieces Subjects Periods Elements Standards Starting Philosopher Contemporary Conclusion Analysis Fixed Passive Testimony Resorts Starting Point

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you think about even very common examples like, say, something that you would build, like a clock or a car or a group of people trying to accomplish something, it fails when its unity breaks down. So when it stops having a single form, which is functioning all together, then it sort of falls apart into discrete elements.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Together Form Fall Common Break Failing Groups Car Example Elements Unity Accomplish Clock Breaking Down Falling Apart Discrete

Author:Peter Adamson

“All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak words. They say, "How are you" or "I'm not feeling well" all over the world. These common words - these common elements that we have between us - the writer has to take some verbs and nouns and pronouns and adjectives and adverbs and arrange them in a way that sound fresh.”

People World Way Wells Different Feelings Speak Language Sound Common Elements Verbs Adjectives Nouns Hermits Different Languages Pronouns Adverbs Not Feeling Well Adjectives And Adverbs

Author:Maya Angelou

“The information that was contained in a cathedral was based upon a common culture - a common Christian culture - and the elements were chosen for a common symbolic meaning. Someone who knew everything that was represented in a cathedral had a sort of encyclopedia - you can indeed call it that - but it was a selective encyclopedia, like encyclopedias back when they were books and the people writing them were supposed to be specialists in their field. I think today the problem is that people don't know how to choose between different kinds of information.”

“Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.”

Has Beens Art Done Literature Fear Common Modern Elements Art Is Dread Symptoms Immature Immaturity Modern Art

Author:Edith Wharton

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