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“And it is undeniably true that the greatest and most important right of a British subject is that he shall be governed by no laws but those to which he, either in person or by his representatives, hath given his consent; and this, I will venture to assert, is the great basis of British freedom; it is interwoven with the Constitution, and whenever this is lost, the Constitution must be destroyed.”

Persons Important Law Lost Given Subjects Bases Constitution British Destroyed Patriotic Representatives Venture Consent

Author:Joseph Warren

“Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.”

Heart Religion Faith Language Given Subjects Secular

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.”

Humans Given Religious Subjects Elements Approach Critical Sensibility Human Experience Religious Faith

Author:Jon Meacham

“I like writing. It keeps my mind off grim subjects. It's therapeutic in the same way a patient in an institution is given fingerpaints.”

Way Writing Mind Given Subjects Institutions Patient Grim Therapeutic

Author:Woody Allen

“When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one dazzling moment of life here on Earth, and we must stand before that reality both humbled and elevated, subject to every law of our universe and grateful for our brief but intrinsic participation with it.”

World Moments Reality Earth Law Universe Given Natural Subjects Grateful Participation Natural World Nuance Dazzling Moments Of Life

Book:The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

“The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.”

Ifs Ideas Matter Artist Given Space Subjects Abstract Subject Matter

Book:De Kooning: A Retrospective

Source: De Kooning: A Retrospective

“It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.”

People Feels Use Given Cases Subjects Talent Draws Arrogance Humbling Portraiture God Given Talents

Author:LeRoy Neiman

“Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given to its construction.”

Given Interest Subjects Design Plenty Sufficient Construction Suitable

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force, I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs, and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment of the subject.”

“Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.”

Said Used Given Subjects Queens Cheer Sovereign Symbolic Good Cheer Panacea

Book:Gargantua and Pantagruel: Easyread Edition

Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel: Easyread Edition

“A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.”

Men Years Mind Has Beens Made Political Life Is Given Opinion Principles Five Subjects Circumstances Years Ago Twenties Five Years Twenty Five Opportunist Political Opinions

Author:A. P. Herbert

“As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which is timid, in all likelihood, and fit for common people, not one which is kingly and splendid. This wisdom, such as it is, observing that human life is ever subject to all sorts of vicissitudes, forbids us to be puffed up by the good things we have, or to admire a man's felicity while there is still time for it to change.”

People Men Giving Humans Kind Stills Life Is Given Common Subjects Fit Blessing Good Things Admire Human Life Greek Moderation Observing Deities Splendid Likelihood Felicity Vicissitudes

Author:Solon

“In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little minds, the only thing that I have learned for certain about women is that when a gal is gonna, she's gonna. All a man can do is cooperate with the inevitable.”

Men Trying Years Mind Littles Certain Given Women Can Do Subjects Inevitable I Have Learned Ninety Eighty Gals Little Minds

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Of crimes injurious to the persons of private subjects, the most principal and important is the offense of taking away that life, which is the immediate gift of the great creator; and which therefore no man can be entitled to deprive himself or another of, but in some manner either expressly commanded in, or evidently deducible from, those laws which the creator has given us; the divine laws, I mean, of either nature or revelation.”

Men Mean Persons Important Law Given Subjects Crime Divine Creator Revelations Principal Entitled Offense Divine Law

Book:Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books, with an analysis of the work

Source: Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books, with an analysis of the work

“This was Barrington Erle, a politician of long standing, who was still looked upon by many as a young man, because he had always been known as a young man, and because he had never done anything to compromise his position in that respect. He had not married, or settled himself down in a house of his own, or become subject to the gout, or given up being careful about the fitting of his clothes.”

Men Long Stills Done Young House Given Known Subjects Position Politician Married Clothes Standing Careful Compromise Young Man Given Up Fitting Gout

Book:The Prime Minister: Trollope's Works

Source: The Prime Minister: Trollope's Works

“The effects of heat are subject to constant laws which cannot be discovered without the aid of mathematical analysis. The object of the theory is to demonstrate these laws; it reduces all physical researches on the propagation of heat, to problems of the integral calculus, whose elements are given by experiment. No subject has more extensive relations with the progress of industry and the natural sciences; for the action of heat is always present, it influences the processes of the arts, and occurs in all the phenomena of the universe.”

“A few of my books, over the years, have been optioned for film. The subject matter of my books, however, is not exactly conducive to Hollywood film treatment. If and when a 'big-budget' film is ever made based on one of my books, my fans and I will more than likely loathe it because it won't be true to its source. That's almost a given.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Made Book Matter Bigs Film Given Fans Subjects Source Hollywood Being True Budgets Treatment Subject Matter Loathe Ifs And Hollywood Films

Author:Richard Laymon

“Have I ever remarked on how completely ridiculous it is to ask high school students to decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives and give them nearly no support in doing so? Support like, say, spending a day apiece watching twenty different jobs and then another week at their top three choices, with salary charts and projections and probabilities of graduating that subject given their test scores? The more so considering this is a central allocation question for the entire economy?”

“In the face of the idea that truth might afford the opposite of satisfaction and turn out to be completely shocking to humanity at any given historical moment, ... the fathers of pragmatism made the satisfaction of the subject the criterion of truth. For such a doctrine there is no possibility of rejecting or even criticizing any species of belief that is enjoyed by its adherents.”

Source: Eclipse of Reason

“I have often discussed the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path in talks I have given about meditation. But, since I also teach Hindu, Buddhist, and Taoist mediation, I have a very eclectic approach to the subject.”

Given Teach Path Four Meditation Subjects Buddhism Approach Noble Buddhist Rama Eclectic Mediation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Writers on the subject of August Strindberg have hitherto omitted to mention that he could not write. ... Strindberg, who was neither a good nor a wise man, had a stroke of luck. He went mad. He lost the power of inhibition. Everything down to the pettiest suspicion that the dog had been given the leanest mutton chop, poured out of his lips. Men of his weakness and sensuality are usually, from their sheer brutishness, unable to express themselves. But Strindberg was mad and articulate. That is what makes him immortal.”

Men Writing Lost Given Wise Subjects Dog Weakness Criticism Luck Mad Lips Sensuality Immortal Suspicion Sheer Strokes August Inhibitions Mutton

Author:Rebecca West

“... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day.”

Thinking Doe Government Given Walks Streets Subjects Civilization Wretchedness

Author:Freya Stark

“Nothing can be more unphilosophical than to be positive or dogmatical on any subject; and even if excessive scepticism could be maintained it would not be more destructive to all just reasoning and inquiry. When men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have there given reins to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities.”

Ifs Men Passion Given Subjects Secure Suspense Reasoning Destructive Arrogant Absurdity Mistaken Inquiry Being Positive Reins Deliberation Dogmatism Scepticism

Book:An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book

“while the executive should give every possible value to the information of the specialist, no executive should abdicate thinking on any subject because of the expert. The expert's information or opinion should not be allowed automatically to become a decision. On the other hand, full recognition should be given to the part the expert plays in decision making.”

Thinking Giving Should Play Hands Values Given Decision Business Opinion Subjects Information Recognition Experts Decision Making Executives Specialists

Book:Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett

Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett

“Concentration, itself, is nothing but a matter of control of the attention! Learn to fix your attention on a given subject, at will, for whatever length of time you choose, and you will have learned the secret passage-way to power and plenty! This is concentration!”

Way Matter Given Secret Attention Subjects Plenty Concentration Length Passages You Choose

Author:Napoleon Hill

“Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I know of is that message given.”

Knows Giving Writing Given Teach Teacher Subjects Messages Subliminal Subliminal Messages

Author:Roger Rosenblatt

“But in our time women are no longer subject to the will of men. Quite the contrary. They have been given every opportunity to win their independence and if, after all this time, they still have not liberated themselves and thrown off their shackles, we can only arrive at one conclusion: there are no shackles to throw off.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Stills Opportunity Winning Given Subjects Independence Contrary Conclusion Our Time Thrown Liberated Shackles

Book:The Manipulated Man

Source: The Manipulated Man

“That the mere matter of a poem, for instance--its subject, its given incidents or situation; that the mere matter of a picture--the actual circumstances of an event, the actual topography of a landscape--should be nothing without the form, the spirit of the handling, that this form, this mode of handling, should become an end in itself, should penetrate every part of the matter;Mthis is what all art constantly strives after, and achieves in different degrees.”

Should Art Different Ends Matter Form Spirit Poetry Given Situation Achieve Subjects Events Poet Circumstances Degrees Unity Mere Strive Instance Landscape Strife Penetrate Incidents Topography

Author:Walter Pater

“Were you to converse with a king, you ought to be as easy and unembarrassed as with your own valet-de chambre; but yet every look,word, and action should imply the utmost respect.... You must wait till you are spoken to; you must receive, not give, the subject of conversation, and you must even take care that the given subject of such conversation do not lead you into any impropriety.”

Giving Should Looks Care Action Given Easy Waiting Subjects Ought Kings Conversation Take Care Royalty Etiquette Converses Words And Actions Valet

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“In view of the importance of philanthropy in our society, it is surprising that so little attention has been given to it by economic or social theorists. In economic theory, especially, the subject is almost completely ignored. This is not, I think, because economists regard mankind as basically selfish or even because economic man is supposed to act only in his self-interest; it is rather because economics has essentially grown up around the phenomenon of exchange and its theoretical structure rests heavily on this process.”

“It is a thoughtless and immodest presumption to learn anything about art from philosophy. Some do begin as if they hoped to learnsomething new here, since philosophy cannot and should not do anything further than develop the given art experiences and the existing art concepts into a science, improve the views of art, and promote them with the help of a thoroughly scholarly art history, and produce that logical mood about these subjects too which unites absolute liberalism with absolute rigor.”

“It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least. A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge.”

Given Hours Interesting Study Subjects Profit Unexpected Accumulation Some Interesting

Author:William Ellery Channing

“You have total control of it, and when you're an actor, you're subject to production design and costumes and directors and studio choices and producer choices, but when you're writing it, you're creating your own little world in your head, peopled with your little characters. No one is in there monkeying with it, at least not at first - though they will. With this and the other projects I'm working on, it'll have to be given away, and it'll have to be someone else's property.”

World Writing Firsts Littles Character Choices Actors Given Subjects Design Directors Projects Creating Property Productions Studios Producers Costumes Production Design

Author:Rainn Wilson

“Before I undertake a lengthy project, I have usually given much thought to it over a period of years. My files are filled with likely subjects - which perhaps, one day, I will develop.”

Years Given Subjects Periods One Day Projects Filled Files Lengthy

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“To one given to day-dreaming, and fond of losing himself in reveries, a sea-voyage is full of subjects for meditation; but then they are the wonders of the deep and of the air, and rather tend to abstract the mind from worldly themes.”

Mind Dream Given Wonder Meditation Air Sea Subjects Losing Abstract Theme Worldly Voyages Reverie Sea Voyage

Book:The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)

Source: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)

“A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly.... But the scene is changed as you come homeward, and atheism or treason may be the names given in Britain to what would be reason and truth if asserted in China.”

Ifs Knows Men May Reason Would Be Names Given Know How Atheism Subjects Changed Scene China Sufficient Britain Coming Home Freedom Of Thought Treason

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

“The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so.”

Knows Men Wells Facts Found Given Teach Subjects Essentials Dilemma Unwilling

Author:H. L. Mencken

“If you want things to change to different things, you must think different thoughts. And that simply requires finding unfamiliar ways of approaching familiar subjects. Ask and it is given.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Different Asks Given Subjects Findings Familiar Different Things Unfamiliar Think Different

Book:Ask and it is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

Source: Ask and it is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of kings. At issue was the fundamental question of whether men's rights were God-given or whether these rights were to be dispensed by governments to their subjects. This document proclaimed that all men have certain inalienable rights. In other words, these rights came from God.”