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“In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle.”

War Half Moral Opinion Battle Elements Public Opinion

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“It really seems to me sometimes that the only hope is space. That is to say, perhaps the most energeticin a bad senseelements will move on to a new world in space. The problems of mass society will be transported into space, leaving behind this world as a kind of Europe, which then eventually tourists will visit. The Old World. I'm only half joking.”

World Kind Sometimes Problem Seems Moving Space Behinds Half This World Elements Mass Europe Leaving New World Tourists Energetic Space Travel Old World

Author:Mary McCarthy

“Foreign correspondence has a natural element of romanticism - and this could be seen as soon as that class of professional reporter emerged in the last half of the 19th century.”

Lasts Natural Half Class Century Elements Reporters Romanticism 19th Century Correspondence Natural Elements

Author:John Maxwell Hamilton

“The greatest element in life is not what occupies most of its time, else sleep would stand high in the scale. Nor is it what engrosses most of its thought, else money would be very high. The two or three hours of worship and preaching weekly has perhaps been the greatest signal influence on English life. Half an hour of prayer, morning or evening, every day, may be a greater element in shaping our course than all our conduct and all our thought.”

May Two Would Be Life Is Three Courses Hours Prayer Sleep Half Morning Greater Influence Elements Worship Scales Evening Preaching Our Thoughts Signals

Author:Peter Forsyth

“The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the esoteric fear of simple beauty for its own sake - I am deeply concerned with these manifestations of decay. Gene Smith's work validates my most vigorous convictions that if the documentary photographs is to be truly effective it must contain elements of art, intensity, fine craft and spirituality. All these his work contains and we may turn to his work with gratitude, appreciation and great respect.”

“If I had 10 ideas and people said yes to all of them, half of them could be crap. But, if I've got 10 ideas and we really only have the budget for one of them, then we have to pick the best one that is our most creative element.”

People Ifs Said Ideas Half Creative Elements Picks Budgets Crap

Author:Thomas Ian Nicholas

“The humor of jazz is rich and many-sided. Some of it is obvious enough to make a dog laugh. Some is subtle, wry-mouthed, or back-handed. It is by turns bitter, agonized, and grotesque. Even in the hands of white composers it involuntarily reflects the half-forgotten suffering of the negro. Jazz has both white and black elements, and each in some respects has influenced the other. It's recent phase seems to throw the light of the white race's sophistication upon the anguish of the black.”

Enough Hands Light Seems Suffering Turns Black White Race Half Laughing Rich Dog Elements Jazz Forgotten Obvious Bitter Subtle Composer Phases Anguish Grotesque Sophistication Wry White Race

Author:Bix Beiderbecke

“I'm a thug. And my thug comes from... my definition of thug comes from half of the street element. Straight street hustling.”

Half Streets Elements Definitions Hustle Thug

Author:Tupac Shakur

“I'm a compulsive enjamber. I'm drawn to half-meanings created by the line, so that's definitely an element of craft that's always on my mind. And I'm a big devotee of the short line, of couplets and tercets, and of irregular stanzas with lots of white space. I've got to give the dense language room to breathe!”

Giving Mind Bigs Language Lines Space White Rooms Half Elements Breathe Crafts Dense Devotee White Space Couplets Always On My Mind

Author:Anna Journey

“Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.”

Art Half Elements Eternal Neglected Modernity Despised Transitory One Half Fugitive

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an election is at best a means, not an end; a starting point, not deliverance. These people are looking less for an "electocracy" than for the basic elements that for most of us define a decent life--food, shelter, electricity, basic health care, education for their children, and the ability to make their way through life without having to endure corruption, violence, or arbitrary power.”

Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

“If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.”

Ifs Two Life Is Fall Half Birth Elements Unions Explosions Unstable Half Life

Book:The Moor's last sigh

Source: The Moor's last sigh

“As it was, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I'd left half-read at home and wishing I'd stuck it in my purse so I could pull it out now.”

Thinking Book Feelings Home Found Left Wish Half Elements Stuck Purses

Author:Charlaine Harris