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“The interaction between math and physics is a two-way process, with each of the two subjects drawing from and inspiring the other. At different times, one of them may take the lead in developing a particular idea, only to yield to the other subject as focus shifts. But altogether, the two interact in a virtuous circle of mutual influence.”

Way May Two Ideas Different Process Focus Influence Subjects Particular Math Drawing Physics Circles Developing Mutual Yield Interaction Virtuous Two Ways Different Times Lead In

Author:Edward Frenkel

“By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we see on the moon are the works of the Lunarians and may be called their Towns.”

May Littles Subjects Moon Towns Convinced Circus Reflecting

Author:William Herschel

“The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.”

Men May Done Subjects Repentance Remorse Outrage Whips Outraged Chastisement

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Money is the most important subject intellectual persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it is widely understood and its defects remedied very soon.”

World May Persons Important Money Subjects Civilization Intellectual Understood Collapse Defects Monetary New World Order

Author:Robert W. Hemphill

“I was often humiliated to see men disputing for a piece of bread, just as animals might have done. My feelings on this subject have very much altered since I have been personally exposed to the tortures of hunger. I have discovered, in fact, that a man, whatever may have been his origin, his education, and his habits, is governed, under certain circumstances, much more by his stomach than by his intelligence and his heart.”

Source: Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men ... Translated by ... W. H. Smyth ... the Rev. Baden Powell ... and R. Grant

“My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea, even switch me to different subject matter. So I start out with my mind as free from image as the silver film on which I am to record, and I hope as sensitive.”

Mind May Ideas Different Matter Eye Film My Own Records Subjects Cameras Sensitive Silver Subject Matter Different Subjects

Book:Edward Weston on photography

Source: Edward Weston on photography

“And government (to define it de facto, or according to modern prudence) is an art whereby some man, or some few men, subject a city or a nation, and rule it according to his or their private interest; which, because the laws in such cases are made according to the interest of a man, or of some few families, may be said to be the empire of men, and not of laws.”

Men May Art Made Said Government Law Nations Interest Cities Cases Modern Subjects Empires Prudence

Book:Harrington: 'The Commonwealth of Oceana' and 'A System of Politics'

Source: Harrington: 'The Commonwealth of Oceana' and 'A System of Politics'

“When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you write something new about art, it is subject only to the reader's discomfort, and will probably be rejected.”

Writing May Art Pay Attention Subjects Reader Scientist Proof Pay Attention Something New Rejected Discomfort

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.”

Men May Use Community Land Subjects Degrees Property Every Man Welfare Public Welfare

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“I have taken special interest in these accounts [of UFOs].. I think there may be substance to some of these reports... I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment on this subject.”

People Thinking May Interest Taken Special Subjects Produce Enlightenment Accounts Substance Reports Credibility Ufo Special Interests

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well in going a month without murder, for he fought his chemical imbalance and succeeded; oppositely, perhaps the healthy, able and stable man who has never murdered in his life yet went a lifetime consciously, willingly never loving anyone but himself may then be subject to harsher judgment than the extreme mental patient. It might be so that God will stand for the weak and question the strong.”

Men Wells May Might Able Strong Subjects Judging Months Healthy Judgment Weak Murder Lifetime Patient Extremes Gods Will Chemicals Stable Imbalance Judge Me

Book:Healology

Source: Healology

“What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base creatures? Is there not more strength and greatness of mind in admitting the idea of a being superior to all other beings, who has made them all and to whom all owe their existence; of a being supremely perfect, who is pure, who had no beginning and can have no ending, of whom our soul is the image and, so to speak, a portion, being a spiritual and immortal thing?”

“To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the brightness of the finest gold; but in either case, the real value of both continues the same, although the currency may be somewhat impeded.”

May Real Values Cases Virtue Subjects Gold Breaths Constant Atmosphere Currency Finest Obscure Exposure Slander Brightness Real Value

Book:L.P.

Source: L.P.

“In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the citizens of a free republic may be prompted by a principle of duty; the subjects, or at least the nobles, of a monarchy, are animated by a sentiment of honor; but the timid and luxurious inhabitants of a declining empire must be allured into the service by the hopes of profit, or compelled by the dread of punishment.”

Source: EDWARD GIBBON Premium Collection: Historiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters: Including

“On the whole, however, the conclusions I have drawn from the proofs quoted may, I believe, safely be relied on. Assuredly they will not be disturbed either by the lays of a poet displaying the exaggeration of his craft, or by the compositions of the chroniclers that are attractive at truth's expense; the subjects they treat of being out of the reach of evidence, and time having robbed most of them of historical value by enthroning them in the region of legend.”

Source: History of Greece