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“The perfect Semite (Jews are not Semites but are Khazars, descended from Japheth) is positive and impassioned. The two elements exercise a reciprocal influence, each moderating what is too excessive and therefore unlikely to live in the other, creating a being apart who easily arrives at domination, for nothing can stop such a man...It is the eternal opposition of Shylock and Jessica. It is the illogical and monstrous mixture of the rarest qualities with the most abject defects, mixture of irresistible force and of irremediable weakness.”

“I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements.”

Humans Two Sides Dark Deals Struggle Elements Aspect Vampire Who We Are Fascinated Fascination Dark Side

Author:Sheryl Lee

“A film must have two elements - it must deal with the real world and show how it could be made better.”

World Made Two Real Shows Film Deals Elements Real World

Author:Rouben Mamoulian

“That our being should consist of two fundamental elements [physical and psychical] offers I suppose no greater inherent improbability than that it should rest on one only.”

Should Two Science Greater Offers Elements Fundamentals Inherent Improbability

Book:The Physical Basis of Mind: A Symposium

Source: The Physical Basis of Mind: A Symposium

“Innovation is a discipline not a lottery... It comes from the combination of two elements within my control: hard work and openmindedness.”

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Author:Georges St-Pierre

“In the two years of preparing material for shows, I realized there are elements that are definitely going to work live, but might not be the most exciting thing to put on a record. And there's stuff that I really love but it falls flat live.”

Years Two Shows Might Fall Stuff Records Materials Elements Exciting I Realized Two Years Flats Preparing Going To Work Exciting Things

Author:Girl Talk

“Choose one thing and become a master of it. Choose a second thing and become a master of that. When you become a master of two worlds, say, engineering and business, you can bring them together in a way that will a) introduce hot ideas to each other, so they can have idea sex and make idea babies that no one has seen before and b) create a competitive advantage because you can move between worlds, speak both languages, connect the tribes, mash the elements to spark fresh creative insight until you wake up with the epiphany that changes your life.”

“We have achieved two of the three alchemists' dreams: We have transmuted the elements and learned to fly. Immortality is next.”

Two Dream Three Next Elements Immortality Alchemist

Author:Max More

“Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings. Voyager did wonders for our knowledge, but performed just as mightily in the service of wonder and the two elements are complementary, not independent or opposed. The thought fills me with awe - a mechanical contraption that could fit in the back of a pickup truck, traveling through space for twelve years, dodging around four giant bodies and their associated moons, and finally sending exquisite photos across more than four light-hours of space from the farthest planet in our solar system.”

Years Two Body Light Hours Space Wonder Four Planets Fit Moon Elements Intellectual Independent Worthy Giants Awe Twelve Truck Exquisite Solar System Complementary Pickups Pickup Trucks

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two great elements of the interesting, which are elevation and beauty.”

Want Two Interesting Elements Dues Civilisation Elevation

Book:Civilization in the United States

Source: Civilization in the United States

“Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact that algebra and geometry are different in appearance. Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.”

Thinking Should Two Book Different Facts Attention Five Elements Six Paid Appearance Tricks Vain Propositions Geometry Algebra Obtaining Geometric

Author:Omar Khayyam

“I can look back . . . at two distinct periods of opinion whose foundations I have successively come to distrust - a period before 1919 or so, when the weight of classic authority unduly influenced me, and another period from 1919 to about 1925, when I placed too high a value on the elements of revolt, florid colour, and emotional extravagance or intensity.”

Looks I Can Two Values Opinion Emotional Periods Authority Elements Weight Foundation Classic Colour Intensity Distrust Revolt Extravagance

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“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.”

“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

“Two elements enter into successful and happy gatherings at table. The food, whether simple or elaborate, must be carefully prepared; willingly prepared; imaginatively prepared. And the guests - friends, family or strangers - must be conscious of their welcome.”

Two Simple Successful Elements Eating Conscious Tables Cooking Prepared Stranger Welcome Meals Guests Gathering Family Friends

Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“every artist is both male and female, and ... sometimes, the two great elements are in conjunction with him, so that all by himself he suddenly gets the melody and the burst of feeling of a great symphony without any external stimuli.”

Two Sometimes Feelings Artist Elements Female Males Melody Symphony Stimulus Conjunctions

Author:Ruth St. Denis

“Such is the nature of the marriage relation that a breach once made cannot be healed, and it is the height of folly to waste one's life in vain efforts to make a binary compound of two diverse elements. What would we think of the chemist who should sit twenty years trying to mix oil and water, and insist upon it that his happiness depended upon the result of the experiment?”

Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences

“We go into a relationship looking for love, not realizing that we must bring love with us. We must bring a strong sense of self and purpose into a relationship. We must bring a sense of value, of who we are. We must bring an excitement about ourselves, our lives, and the vision we have for these two essential elements. We must bring a respect for wealth and abundance. Having achieved it to some satisfactory degree on our own, we must move into relationships willing to share what we have, rather than being afraid of someone taking it.”

“The familiar childhood admonition of 'counting to 10' before taking action works because it emphasizes the two key elements of anger management -- time and distraction.”

Two Action Childhood Keys Elements Management Familiar Distraction Counting Taking Action Anger Management Admonition

Author:Bill Vaughan

“In the desert, the two primary elements are stone and water. Stone comes in abundance, exposed by weathering and a lack of vegetation. It is a canvas. Water crosses this stone with such rarity and ferocity that it tells all of its secrets in the shapes left behind.”

Two Left Water Secret Behinds Shapes Elements Stones Crosses Primaries Desert Abundance Exposed Canvas Left Behind Rarity Vegetation Ferocity

Author:Craig Childs

“In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and unnatural condition. At all events we may firstly observe in living creatures both a despotical and a constitutional rule; for the soul rules the body with a despotical rule, whereas the intellect rules the appetites with a constitutional and royal rule. And it is clear that the rule of the soul over the body, and of the mind and the rational element over the passionate, is natural and expedient; whereas the equality of the two or the rule of the inferior is always hurtful.”

Source: Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens

“The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.”

Firsts Humans Two Bigs Cities Travel Elements Architecture Rhythm Extras Capture Traveler Anguish Geometry Furious Big Cities

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest steppingstones to success. No other element can do so much for a man if he is willing to study them and make capital out of them. Look backward. Can't you see where your failures have helped you?”

Ifs Men Looks Two Can Do Study Willing Elements Discouragement

Author:Dale Carnegie

“If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.”

Ifs Two Lying Force Struggle Elements Solutions

Author:Benito Mussolini

“Art's effect is due to the tension resulting from the clash of the collocation of elements of two (or more) systems of interpretation. This conflict has the function of breaking down automatism of perception and occurs simultaneously on the many levels of a work of art ... All levels may carry meaning.”

May Art Two Poetry Levels Effects Conflict Elements Perception Function Dues Tension Interpretation Works Of Art Breaking Down Clash

Author:Yuri Lotman

“There's nothing else exactly like it in any other art form, the orchestration of so many different elements. It's endlessly fascinating what can be done editorially. You can create meaning where there was none, you can create feeling where there was none, you can create narrative where there was none. Two frames can be the difference between something that works and something that doesn't. It's fascinating.”

Art Two Different Done Feelings Form Differences Elements Narrative Fascinating Orchestration

Author:Steven Soderbergh

“It is not done to let anybody be too happy. The moment two people seem to be enjoying one another's company, a good hostess introduces a third element or removes the first.”

People Firsts Two Done Moments Seems Enjoy Company Elements Thirds Remove Introducing Hostesses

Author:Virginia Graham

“The business model of the conservative media is built on two elements: provoking the audience into a fever of indignation (to keep them watching) and fomenting mistrust of all other information sources (so that they never change the channel).”

Two Audience Media Information Source Elements Models Built Strategy Conservative Provoking Never Change Fever Mistrust Indignation Business Models

Author:David Frum

“When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.”

Way Two Results Elements Unique Discovery

Book:The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects

Source: The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects

“In all cultures, the family imprints its members with selfhood. Human experience of identity has two elements; a sense of belonging and a sense of being separate. The laboratory in which these ingredients are mixed and dispensed is the family, the matrix of identity.”

Humans Two Culture Identity Members Elements Belonging Ingredients Human Experience Laboratory

Book:Families and Family Therapy

Source: Families and Family Therapy

“We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.”

Two Humanity Particular Creatures Elements Catholic Faculty

Book:The Annotated Emerson

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“The whole question of pornography seems to me a question of secrecy. Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things. Secrecy has always an element of fear in it, amounting very often to hate. Modesty is gentle and reserved. Today, modesty is thrown to the winds, even in the presence of the grey guardians. But secrecy is hugged, being a vice in itself. And the attitude of the grey ones is: Dear young ladies, you may abandon all modesty, so long as you hug your dirty little secret.”

Source: Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence

“No one in his right mind would walk into the cockpit of an airplane and try to fly it, or into an operating theater and open a belly. And yet they think nothing of managing their retirement assets. I've done all three, and I'm here to tell you that managing money is, in its most critical elements even more demanding than the first two.”

Thinking Trying Mind Firsts Two Done Three Walks Elements Theater Investing Critical Retirement Assets Airplane Belly Cockpit

Author:William J. Bernstein

“There are two famous labyrinths where our reason very often goes astray. One concerns the great question of the free and the necessary, above all in the production and the origin of Evil. The other consists in the discussion of continuity, and of the indivisibles which appear to be the elements thereof, and where the consideration of the infinite must enter in.”

Two Reason Evil Elements Concern Infinite Productions Discussion Consideration Continuity Labyrinth

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“As a comedian, you have to start the show strong and you have to end the show strong. Those are the two key elements. You can't be like pancakes. You're all happy at first, but then by the end, you're sick of 'em.”

Firsts Two Ends Shows Humor Funny Strong Keys Elements Sick Comedian Ems Pancakes

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“What I do is interpret, not create. I may add elements and do something different. That is what is so incredible about theatre. Why do we love it that there are nine Hamletsor six King Lears over two years? We love to watch a different actor attack the same material.”

Years May Two Different Actors Watches Materials Kings Elements Six Add Incredibles Theatre Nine Two Years Lear

Author:Kevin Spacey

“Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.”

Thinking Trying May Two Courses Virtue Students Elements Benefits Intellectual Intelligent

Author:Maya Angelou

“Although most informed balletomanes would place artistry above technique, artistry without a strong technique is a flaccid, bloodless thing indeed, whereas technique without much artistry can still dazzle us in the manner of the circus or sports arena translated to a higher plane. Though the perfect blend of the two elements is the consummation devoutly to be wished, the real enemy of good ballet is not the slight preponderance of one or the other but the prevalence of pantomime--the turning of dance into second-rate theater.”

Stills Two Real Strong Sports Perfect Enemy Higher Elements Theater Rate Technique Planes Ballet Arena Circus Artistry Dazzle Second Rate Pantomime

Author:John Simon

“All that we know about the interaction between leaders and constituents or followers tells us that communication and influence flow in both directions; and in that two-way communication, nonrational, nonverbal, and unconscious elements play their part.”

Knows Way Two Play Leader Influence Communication Elements Flow Unconscious Followers Interaction Two Ways Constituents Nonverbal

Book:Leadership: An Overview

Source: Leadership: An Overview

“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

“There are two kinds of filmmaking: Hitchcock's (the film is complete in the director's mind) and Coppola's (which thrives on process). For Hitchcock, any variation from the complete internal idea is seen as a defect. The perfection already exists. Coppola's approach is to harvest the random elements that the process throws up, things that were not in his mind when he began.”

Mind Kind Two Ideas Film Process Directors Elements Approach Perfection Thrive Internals Filmmaking Harvest Defects Variation Hitchcock

Author:Walter Murch

“Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth.”

Long Two Character Growth Situation Elements Obedience Range Maturity

Book:Effective Biblical Counseling

Source: Effective Biblical Counseling

“I think opera music is very conservative, and Rock and Roll music is conservative as well, and that's why I'm trying to make a bridge between these two elements.”

Thinking Trying Wells Two Rocks Elements Music Is Conservative Bridges Opera Rock And Roll Rock And Roll Music

Author:Klaus Nomi

“When I made 'Real Steel,' the director actually had the robots in the monitor, so he knew where everything was. So technically, there's been advancements. But at the end of the day, movies are about story and characters, so all the other stuff is great, but unless you have those two elements, then you've got nothing.”

Made Two Real Ends Character Stories Stuff Directors Elements The End Of The Day Steel Robots Advancement Real Steel

Author:Hugh Jackman

“Basically the movies I make are my life, so I choose how I want to live my life for the next two years. So that's a decision I have to make. At some point if I feel there are enough elements - it doesn't even have to have great characters or great stories - it's just elements that can get my excitement and curiosity for one or two years, then I'll jump in and I'll find out what that is. Then I have to do [interviews like this] and rationalize why I do this.”

Ifs Want Feels Years Two Enough Character Stories Next Decision Elements Curiosity Excitement Interviews Two Years Living My Life Great Character Rationalize

Author:Ang Lee

“If you say the world is totally dependent on oil in many parts of the world, coal and certainly natural gas, we are fossil fuel, that is modernity, modernity has two elements: individualism and oil. Now to move toward a more enlightened sustainable world, we have to transform with lots of technology, with even differences in the way we see the world and how we live in the world. That`s going to take decades.”

Ifs World Way Two Moving Natural Differences Technology Elements Oil Decades Fuel Dependent Gas Enlightened Individualism Coal Fossils Modernity Fossil Fuel Natural Gas

Author:Jerry Brown

“A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or practical. It is neither but includes elements of both.”

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Author:Lemn Sissay

“Of course I love leather, and I love stingray. So combining the two and adding those gold elements - I always love a great gold accessory.”

Two Courses Elements Gold Leather Accessories Combining

Author:Olivia Palermo

“We have to focus on his early work, and just one or two of his movies, and elements of his TV shows, to keep his memory pure. People now know that Elvis could play a mean rhythm guitar himself, and needed no other musicians to perform a great song. But Elvis was not just a rock star, he was an all-round entertainer.”

People Knows Mean Two Play Shows Song Stars Memories Focus Rocks Tvs Needed Pure Elements Musician Guitar Rounds Rhythm Just One Tv Shows Rock Star Entertainers Early Work

Author:Pete Townshend

“Fire and Water are archetypes, the split sides of consciousness; one aware, the other, not. The two parts of us that desire synthesis, yet resist it: the self and the shadow. But they are also the element of chance, of the random roll of dice.”

Two Self Desire Sides Water Chance Consciousness Fire Elements Shadow Splits Dice Archetype Synthesis

Author:Chris Abani

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