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“In war the chief incalculable is the human will, which manifests itself in resistance, which in turn lies in the province of tactics. Strategy has not to overcome resistance, except from nature. Its purpose is to diminish the possibility of resistance, and it seeks to fulfil this purpose by exploiting the elements of movement and surprise.”

Humans War Lying Purpose Turns Military Movement Possibility Elements Overcoming Strategy Surprise Resistance Chiefs Diminish Tactics Provinces Human Will

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.”

Wonder Movement Elements Paint Clouds Landscape Fascinating Free Movement

Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“Each celestial body, in fact each and every atom, produces a particular sound on account of its movement, its rhythm or vibration. All these sounds and vibrations form a universal harmony in which each element, while having it’s own function and character, contributes to the whole.”

Whole Character Facts Body Form Sound Movement Produce Particular Elements Universal Accounts Function Harmony Rhythm Atoms Vibrations Celestial Celestial Bodies

Author:Pythagoras

“Despite the array of groups and organizations working on global warming, we are still missing a key element: the movement. Along with the hard work of not-for-profit lobbyists, environmental lawyers, green economists, sustainability-minded engineers, and forward-thinking entrepreneurs, it's going to take the inspired political involvement of millions of Americans to get our country on track to solving this problem.”

“But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union of consciousness and movement, breath and awareness.”

Individual Consciousness Awareness Movement Elements Yoga Universal Breaths Unions Wide Despite Variety Preference

Author:Carre Otis

“You can't shape me anymore. I am the uncontrolled element, the random act. I am forward movement in time. You think you can see me? Then tell me, who am I? You don't know.”

Thinking Knows Movement Shapes Elements Forward Movement

Author:Janet Fitch

“Faith as ultimate concern is an act of the total personality. It happens in the center of the personal life and includes all its elements. Faith is the most centered act of the human mind. It is not a movement of a special section or a special function of man's total being. They all are united in the act of faith.”

Mind Humans Happens Faith United Special Movement Personality Elements Concern Ultimate Function Human Mind Personal Life Sections

Author:Paul Tillich

“My fear is not that our great movement, known as the Methodists, will eventually cease to exist or one day die from the earth. My fear is that our people will become content to live without the fire, the power, the excitement, the supernatural element that makes us great.”

People Earth Religion Dies Known Christianity Fire Movement One Day Elements Cease Excitement Methodists Supernatural Elements

Author:John Wesley

“Above, below, all around are the movements of the elements. But the motion of virtue is in none of these: it is something more divine, and advancing by a way hardly observed it goes happily on its road.”

Way Virtue Movement Divine Elements Advancing

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“Among its many uses, dance/movement therapy aims to help people overcome trauma, often by nonverbally bringing the elements of the experience to the fore.”

People Helping Use Movement Elements Overcoming Aim Trauma Therapy

Author:Judith Lynne Hanna

“Through American history, we have had populist movements that often, often, often have this ugly racial element. But, often, there are warning signs of some deeper social and economic problem.”

Problem Social Economic Movement Elements Ugly Deeper Warning American History Populist Economic Problems Warning Signs

Author:David Brooks

“I think the Occupy movement will, or at least should, become a protean movement of ideas, as well as action, where the element of surprise remains with the protesters. We need to preserve the element of an intellectual ambush and a physical manifestation that takes the government and the police by surprise. It has to keep re-imagining itself, because holding territory may not be something the movement will be allowed to do in a state as powerful and violent as the United States.”

“I use a lot of balance training and functional training. Basically it's where you add an element of instability to a regular exercise. So whether it's on the physioball or the Bosu ball or just balancing on one leg, I try to incorporate an instable plane and/or movement to the exercise, so the body's doing two or more movements.”

Trying Two Use Body Movement Balance Exercise Elements Training Balls Add Legs Planes Instability Regular Exercise

Author:Steve Nash

“I am not too happy with terms like “the left”, to be honest. And I don’t use it much….if by “the left” you mean people who are committed to peace and justice and freedom and so on, there can’t be elements of the left opposed to workers’ movement, at least under that definition.”

People Ifs Mean Use Left Term Justice Honest Movement Elements Workers Definitions Committed Being Honest Mean People Peace And Justice

Author:Noam Chomsky