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“If you happen to find it hard to have sustained conversations, try keeping your voice up at the end of the sentence. There is a charming graciousness in doing so, for it seems to say that you do not think your remarks are the last words to be said on the subject. It prevents you from seeming opinionated. How men dislike an opinionated woman! No one really likes her! To keep your voice up sounds as though you are interested in other people's ideas. The subject is still open!”

“Svanaja includes in itself the whole subject, officials and ministers. If there is something wrong in the conduct of these people, it would be damaging the state. An administrator should strictly deal with it.”

People Ifs Should States Whole Would Be Political Deals Subjects Ministers Officials Administrators

Author:Chanakya

“In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In the fulfillment of this aim, his greatest asset is the directness of the process he employs. But this advantage can only be retained if he simplifies his equipment and technic to the minimum necessary, and keeps his approach from from all formula, art-dogma, rules and taboos. Only then can he be free to put his photographic sight to use in discovering and revealing the nature of the world he lives in.”

Source: Edward Weston on photography

“It used to be said, not so long ago, that every suicide gave Satan special pleasure. I don't think that's true-unless it isn't true either that the Devil is a gentleman. If the Devil has no class at all, then okay, I agree: He gets a bang out of suicide. Because suicide is a mess. As a subject for study, suicide is perhaps uniquely incoherent. And the act itself is without shape and without form. The human project implodes, contorts inward-shameful, infantile, writhing, gesturing. It's a mess in there.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Long Said Form Used Pleasure Class Study Special Subjects Shapes Projects Devil Okay Agree Suicide Used To Be Mess Gentleman Satan Long Ago Inward Bangs Shameful Infantile

Author:Martin Amis

“I have no admiration for culture. I have no reserve knowledge, no provisional knowledge. And everything that I learn, I learn for a particular task, and once it's done, I immediately forget it, so that if ten years later, I have to get involved with something close to or directly within the same subject, I would have to start again from zero, with some few exceptions.”

Ifs Years Done Culture Forget Subjects Particular Involved Ten Tasks Exception Admiration Zero Reserves Forget It Get Involved

Author:Gilles Deleuze

“I love the fact that people can relate to what I'm saying, even if it's not for the same subject I was writing about. That is the power of real music and real expression.”

People Ifs Writing Real Facts Subjects Expression Relate Real Music

Author:Corey Taylor

“Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.”

Ifs Persons Humanity Found Interesting Subjects Ordinary Avenues Ordinary Person

Author:William Zinsser

“Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. Presumably he knows more about the subject than you do; if not, you probably should not be bothering with his book. But understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher, once he understands what the teacher is saying. Marking a book is literally an expression of your differences or your agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.”

Ifs Knows Way Should Two Book Reading Understanding Differences Pay Teacher Subjects Expression Conversation Highest Bother Operations Agreement Two Ways Learners

Author:Mortimer Adler

“I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology.... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Of these the most influential is what is called 'education.' Religion plays a part, though a diminishing one; the press, the cinema, and the radio play an increasing part.... It may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if he can catch the patient young and is provided by the State with money and equipment.”

Source: The Impact of Science On Society

“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

“I would not spend one further moment on the subject of UFOs if I didnt seriously feel that the UFO phenomenon is real and that efforts to investigate and understand it, and eventually to solve it, could have a profound effect -- perhaps even be the springboard to mankinds outlook on the universe.”

Ifs Feels Real Moments Universe Effort Subjects Mankind Effects Profound Solve Phenomenon Outlook Ufo Springboards

Author:J. Allen Hynek

“If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.”

Ifs Subjects Kings Energetic

Author:Chanakya

“For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.”

Ifs Suffering Perfect Subjects Highest Titles Incapable Being There

Book:The Sacred Writings of Lactantius (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Sacred Writings of Lactantius (Annotated Edition)

“A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise legislature would do the same. It is folly to make laws on subjects beyond human prerogative, knowing that in the very nature of things they must be set aside. To make laws that man cannot and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. It is very important in a republic, that the people should respect the laws, for if we throw them to the winds, what becomes of civil government?”

People Ifs Men Should Humans Children Important Government Law Father Knowing Wise Atheism Subjects Wind Positive Atheism Folly Republic Contempt Legislature Prerogative Very Wise

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them. And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It's hard to charge admission without a gate.”

Ifs Different Matter Hard Voice Pay Gone Subjects Taste Approach Exciting Gates Restriction Subject Matter Admission Gatekeepers Different Voices

Author:Bill Watterson

“I began writing books after speaking for several years and I realize that when you have a written book people think that you're smarter than you really are if I can joke. But it's interesting. People will buy your book and hire you without reading the book just because you have a book and you have a book on a subject that they think is of interest to themselves or e to their company.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Years I Can Book Reading Interest Realizing Interesting Company Written Subjects Jokes Smarter Writing A Book

Author:Brian Tracy

“If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of retribution.”

Ifs Country Law Subjects Duty Citizens Retribution Foreign Countries Mistreat

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If anything is evident about people who manage money, it is that the task attracts a very low level of talent, one that is protected in its highly imperfect profession by the mystery that is thought to enfold the subject of economics in general and of money in particular.”

People Ifs Levels Money Mystery Subjects Talent Particular Lows Economics Tasks Profession Manage Imperfect Protected Evident Low Level

Book:Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

“If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows.”

Ifs May Wisdom Force Easy Wise Subjects Smallest Being Wise

Author:Ovid

“I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.”

Ifs Said Care Literature Subjects Changed Travel Stones Window Don't Care London I Don't Care Yards Shrines Imbeciles

Author:Carolyn Wells

“In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional optimism of America lurked behind most of the early plays. But not now. There is no conviction now that the problem will be solved.”

Ifs Play Problem America Behinds Subjects Optimism Conviction Traditional

Author:Brooks Atkinson

“Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand such another proposition is true of that thing.... Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.”

Ifs Knows May Talking Knowledge Subjects Effects Pure Mathematics Defined Propositions Assertion True Knowledge

Author:Bertrand Russell

“I prefer an income tax, but the truth is I am afraid of the discussion which will follow and the criticism which will ensue if there is an other division in the Supreme Court on the subject of the income tax. Nothing has injured the prestige of the Supreme Court more than that last decision, and I think that many of the most violent advocates of the income tax will be glad of the substitution in their hearts for the same reasons. I am going to push the Constitutional amendment, which will admit an income tax without questions, but I am afraid of it without such an amendment.”

“There is not a subject in which I take a deeper interest than I do in the development of Alaska, and I propose, if Congress will follow by recommendations, to do something in that territory that will make it move on.”

Ifs Moving Interest Subjects Development Congress Deeper Territory Propose Alaska Recommendations

Book:The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers

Source: The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers

“Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust itsvitality. It needs constant re-invigoration if it is not to become arid and sterile.”

Ifs Needs Use Language Rich Subjects Constant Soil Threatened Fertility Erosion Soil Erosion

Author:Elizabeth Drew

“That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity, is to be attributed largely to an ill-adapted notation. If, for example, +1, -1, and the square root of -1 had been called direct, inverse and lateral units, instead of positive, negative and imaginary (or even impossible), such an obscurity would have been out of the question.”

Ifs Has Beens Views Impossible Subjects Example Negative Direct Roots Ill Point Of View Mysterious Squares Imaginary Units Obscurity Magnitude Adapted Inverse Square Roots

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“It is generally admitted that the cultural values (humanization) and the existing institutions and policies of society are rarely,if ever, in harmony. This opinion has found expression in the distinction between culture and civilization, according to which "culture" refers to some higher dimension of human autonomy and fulfillment, while "civilization" designates the realm of necessity, of socially necessary work and behavior, where man is not really himself and in his own element but is subject to heteronomy, to external conditions and needs.”

“... when you make it a moral necessity for the young to dabble in all the subjects that the books on the top shelf are written about, you kill two very large birds with one stone: you satisfy precious curiosities, and you make them believe that they know as much about life as people who really know something. If college boys are solemnly advised to listen to lectures on prostitution, they will listen; and who is to blame if some time, in a less moral moment, they profit by their information?”

“People think: 'If this photographer's looking like a big jerk-off, maybe it's okay if I do.' I like to catch my subjects off balance a bit.”

People Ifs Thinking Bigs Bits Subjects Balance Okay Photographer Jerk

Author:Mick Rock

“I know that obviously, that if you want to get the story, if you want to get close to somebody, if you want to find out what is really the truth or what's really interesting, you have to create a trust between these two things, between the journalist and the subject.”

Ifs Knows Want Two Stories Interesting Subjects Journalist Two Things Really Interesting

Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“Worship is to feel in the heart . . . it is an attitude and a state of mind. It is a sustained act, subject to varying degrees of intensity and perfection . . . Real worship is, among other things, a feeling about the Lord our God . . . It is in our hearts. And we must be willing to express it in an appropriate manner. If we love the Lord and are led by His Holy Spirit, our worship will always bring a delighted sense of admiring awe and a sincere humility on our part.”

“In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Two Minutes Subjects Select Paragraph

Author:Raymond Aron

“The fact is that pictures which are unlike reality ought not be approved, and even if they are technically fine, this is no reason why they should offhand be judged to be correct, if their subject is lacking in the principles of reality carried out with no violations.”

Ifs Should Reason Facts Reality Principles Subjects Fine Ought Reason Why No Reason Judged Lacking Violation Approved

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Anyone can be a genius, if they pick just one specific subject and study it diligently just 15 minutes each day.”

Ifs Study Minutes Subjects Genius Picks Just One Each Day

Author:Albert Einstein

“The vast majority of the peoples of the world are against war and against aggression. If they make their wishes known and effective, war can be stopped. It all depends on whether they are willing to make the effort necessary for the purpose. For, that it will require an effort, no one who considers the history of the world on these subjects can doubt.”

Ifs World War Purpose Wish Effort Known Doubt Subjects Willing Depends Majority Aggression World History Against War

Author:Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

“Take rather than give the tone to the company you are in. If you have parts you will show them more or less upon every subject; and if you have not, you had better talk sillily upon a subject of other people's than of your own choosing.”

People Ifs Giving Shows Company Subjects Tone

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“Index funds are... tax friendly, allowing investors to defer the realization of capital gains or avoid them completely if the shares are later bequeathed. To the extent that the long-run uptrend in stock prices continues, switching from security to security involves realizing capital gains that are subject to tax. Taxes are a crucially important financial consideration because the earlier realization of capital gains will substantially reduce net returns.”

“A considreable portion of my high school trigonometry course was devoted to the solution of oblique triangles... I have still not had an excuse for using my talents for solving oblique triangles. If a professional mathematician never uses these dull techniques in a highly varied career, why must all high school students devote several weeks to the subject?”

“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 would not be difficult to be a better ruler than I was: for I admit that I ruled badly; and even if I was fortunate enough to satisfy my subjects, I was not fortunate enough to satisfy myself.”

Ifs Enough Difficult Subjects Fortunate Rulers Royalty

Author:Christina, Queen of Sweden

“When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually any subject if I have a serious interest in it.”

Ifs Interest Class Teach Subjects Serious Formal Diligent Slacker

Author:Dean Koontz

“Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy, and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made clean from all matter, have communion with the gods and join them in the governing of the whole world. Yet even if none of this happiness fell to their lot, virtue itself, and the joy and glory of virtue, and the life that is subject to no grief and no master are enough to make happy those who have set themselves to live according to virtue and have achieved it.”

Ifs World Made Soul Matter Enough Whole Joy Grief Virtue Subjects Masters Glory Clean Whole World Irrational Communion Governing Make Happy

Author:Sallust

“You are the only one who creates in your experience - no one else. Everything that comes to you comes by the power of your thought. If there are changes you would like to make, it will be of great value to begin telling a different story - not only about your body, but about all subjects that have been troubling to you. As you begin to positively focus, getting to feel so good about so many subjects, you will begin to feel the power that creates worlds flowing through you.”

Ifs World Feels Has Beens Different Stories Body Values Creativity Focus Subjects Your Body Positively Great Value

Author:Esther Hicks

“If your dominant intent is to feel joy while you are doing the work, your triad of intentions - freedom, growth and joy - will come quickly and easily into alignment. See your "career" as one of creating a joyful life experience. You are not a creator of things or a regurgitator of what someone else has created or a gatherer of stuff. You are a creator, and the subject of your creation is your joyful life experience. That is your mission. That is your quest. That is why you are here.”

Ifs Feels Joy Stuff Growth Careers Creativity Subjects Creation Creating Intention Creator Missions Life Experience Quests Joyful Dominant Alignment Joyful Life Triads

Author:Esther Hicks

“But a writing project begins not just in doubt but also in faith-that if your passion is genuine, if you have mastered the elements of your craft, in the act of writing you will learn the rest of what you need to know in order to do justice to your subject.”

Ifs Knows Needs Writing Order Passion Justice Doubt Subjects Elements Projects Genuine Crafts

Book:Writing a Book That Makes a Difference

Source: Writing a Book That Makes a Difference

“[A] man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing "what nobody does," or of not doing "what everybody does," is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.”

Ifs Men Doe Stills Moral Subjects Committed Graves Accused Remarks Delinquency

Book:The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill: On Liberty, The Subjection of Women and Utilitarianism

Source: The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill: On Liberty, The Subjection of Women and Utilitarianism

“Esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, said good old Berkeley; but, according to most philosophers, he was wrong. Yet, obviously, there are things for which the adage holds. Perception, trivially, to begin with. If elements of conscious awareness--pains, tickles, feelings of heat and cold, sensory qualia of colors, sounds, and the like--have any existence, it must consist in their being perceived by a subject.... This shows, of course, that such experiences are epiphenomenal, at least with respect to the physical world.”

“It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.”

Ifs Firsts Different Hard Levels Subjects Different Levels Inspection

Author:Carol Moseley Braun

“I do not believe that the tendency is to make men and women brave and glorious when you tell them that there are certain ideas upon certain subjects that they must never express; that they must go through life with a pretence as a shield; that their neighbors will think much more of them if they will only keep still; and that above all is a God who despises one who honestly expresses what he believes.”

Ifs Thinking Men Believe Stills Ideas Certain Subjects Men And Women Brave Neighbor Honestly Tendencies Glorious Despise Shields Pretence

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Compassion is something we can count on. Even if we face economic problems and our fortunes decline, we can still share our compassion with our fellow human beings. National and global economies are subject to many ups and downs, but through them all we can retain a compassionate attitude that will carry us through.”

Ifs Humans Stills Problem Faces Human Beings Attitude Compassion Economy Share Economic Subjects Fellows Fortune Compassionate Decline Ups & Downs Global Economy Economic Problems

Author:Dalai Lama

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