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“It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.”

Men Two Matter Turns Left Party Issues Subjects Effects Poet Aspect Fortune Disappointment Various Versions Consideration Plumber

Author:Thomas Frank

“I think pop culture is the greatest subject matter out there - 'Other People's Lives,' as we wrote about on the last Duran Duran album. Most ideas for great songs come from real situations, something your friend said to you the night before, the girl that just left, or something traumatic in your life.”

People Thinking Said Ideas Real Matter Lasts Night Song Culture Girl Left Situation Subjects Albums Pops Pop Culture Subject Matter Duran Duran

Author:Nick Rhodes

“Here on the edge of the river, the motifs are very plentiful, the same subject seen from a different angle gives a subject for study of the highest interest and so varied that I think I could be occupied for months without changing my place, simply bending a little more to the right or left.”

Thinking Giving Littles Different Left Interest Study Subjects Months Highest Rivers Edges Angle Bending Motifs Plentiful Different Angles

Author:Paul Cezanne

“My temperament and habit had always kept me rather in the middle of the road; in politics as well as in social reform I had been for "the best possible." But now I was pushed far toward the left on the subject of the war and I became gradually convinced that in order to make the position of the pacifist clear it was perhaps necessary that at least a small number of us should be forced into an unequivocal position.”

Should Wells War Order Left Social Numbers Clear Middle Subjects Position Habit Convinced Reform Temperament Social Reform Pacifist Small Numbers Middle Of The Road Unequivocal

Book:The Jane Addams Reader

Source: The Jane Addams Reader

“Deceiving world, that with alluring toysHast made my life the subject of thy scorn,And scornest now to lend thy fading joys,T'outlength my life, whom friends have left forlorn;How well are they that die ere they be born,And never see thy sleights, which few men shunTill unawares they helpless are undone!”

Men World Wells Made Joy Dies Left Born Subjects Deceiving Helpless Scorn Undone Fading Forlorn Alluring

Book:The poetry of Robert Greene

Source: The poetry of Robert Greene

“These left-overs from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse, from their homes and massacred, have been restive under the Republican rule.”

“There is nothing “still” in the remarkably visceral poems of Alexander Long's third collection, Still Life, and nothing is at rest in these restless and edgy poems. Conversational and kinetic, these poems chart the traces left by the shifting overlays of the templates of literature, rock-and-roll, and contemporary culture. As each poem in Still Life attempts to fix a focus upon a scene or subject, the protean natures under view draw the poet into the eddies and complexities of reflection. This is a powerful and moving collection of poems.”

“The modern State exists not to protect our rights but to do us good or make us good - anyway, to do something to us or to make us something. Hence the new name 'leaders' for those who were once 'rulers'. We are less their subjects than their wards, pupils, or domestic animals. There is nothing left of which we can say to them, 'Mind your own business.' Our whole lives are their business.”

Mind States Whole Names Left Animal Leader Rights Modern Subjects Protect Whole Life Rulers Pupils Own Business Mind Your Own Business Mind Your Own

Author:C. S. Lewis

“History is about life. It's awful when the life is squeezed out of it and there's no flavor left, no uncertainties, no horsing around. It always disturbed me how many biographers never gave their subjects a chance to eat. You can tell a lot about people by how they eat, what they eat, and what kind of table manners they have.”

People Kind Life Is Left Chance Subjects Tables Awful Manners Uncertainty Flavor Disturbed Biographers Table Manners Horsing Around

Author:David McCullough

“If you are animated by right principles, and are fully awakened to the true dignity of life, the subject of amusements may be left to settle itself.”

Ifs May Left Principles Subjects Dignity Settling Amusement Awakened Animated

Author:Thornton T. Munger

“Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires. Present-day kings aren't very inspiring, the gods are on a vacation and about the only heroes left are the scientists and the poor.”

Writing Said Literature Left Poor Subjects Kings Hero Fit Scientist Admire Vacation Present Day Very Inspiring

Book:Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath

Source: Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath

“Our minds, like the needle in that compass, can focus on a variety of subjects throughout the day. But in the end, when they're left alone to settle, they'll focus on the objects of our greatest affection.”

Mind Ends Left Focus Subjects Objects Affection Variety Settling Compass Needles Left Alone

Book:Laws of the Heart

Source: Laws of the Heart

“Nothing can be left until the last minute, so that everyone knows exactly where they are. Everyone is comfortable and everyone feels safe because we want people to be able to keep coming into this show and taking those risks. There are a lot of risks in this show, not just nudity, but emotional risks. We want the best actors to feel comfortable about coming in and exploring this subject matter with us.”

People Knows Want Feels Matter Shows Able Lasts Actors Left Risk Minutes Subjects Emotional Safe Comfortable Exploring Subject Matter Nudity Last Minute

Author:Michael Sheen

“Although I am very interested in the subject of human misjudgment - and lord knows I've created a good bit of it - I don't think I've created my full statistical share, and I think that one of the reasons was I tried to do something about this terrible ignorance I left the Harvard Law School with.”

Thinking Knows Humans Reason School Law Left Bits Lord Share Subjects Ignorance Terrible Harvard Law School Harvard Law School

Author:Charlie Munger

“That subject matter has never left me...The more you're in the material world, the more there is a tendency for a search for serenity and a need to not be distracted by physical elements that are around you.”

World Needs Matter Left Subjects Materials Elements Tendencies Serenity Distracted Subject Matter Material World

Author:Martin Scorsese