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“The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I'm not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.”

Process Results Brain Study Mystery Subjects Jokes Remains Scholarly

Book:Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

Source: Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

“The tradition of portrait painting, to embellish or idealize the subject, remains the aim of everyday and of commercial photography, but it has had a much more limited career in photography considered as art. Generally speaking, the honors have gone to the Cordelias.”

Art Careers Gone Subjects Painting Honor Photography Tradition Aim Remains Everyday Portraits Cordelia

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“Of the eternal incorporeal substance nothing is changed, is formed or deformed, but there always remains only that thing which cannot be a subject of dissolution, since it is not possible that it be a subject of composition, and therefore, either of itself or by accident, it cannot be said to die.”

Said Dies Subjects Changed Eternal Remains Accidents Substance Composition Dissolution

Author:Giordano Bruno

“The initial motive for developing APL was to provide a tool for writing and teaching. Although APL has been exploited mostly in commercial programming, I continue to believe that its most important use remains to be exploited: as a simple, precise, executable notation for the teaching of a wide range of subjects.”

Writing Believe Has Beens Important Use Simple Teaching Subjects Tools Remains Wide Developing Range Motive Programming Precise Initials

Author:Kenneth E. Iverson

“A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The best film portraits not only evoke that enigma but ingest it in a process that renders what's invisible visible.”

Should Film Process Subjects Remains Assuming Invisible Superiors Filmmaker Visible Portraits Topics Simplest Evoke Enigma Best Film Never Assume

Author:Damian Pettigrew

“There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled The Language Contradictory.... In the former, however plain the object of satire may be exhibited to the whole company, yet there always remains some little covering.... But in this last method, the defiance becomes more open and the impetuosity with which these contradictions are uttered (although the subjects of them are often of the most indifferent nature) evidently prove that they arise from passion.”

“First ladies are doing a lot. But the job remains undefined, frequently misunderstood, and subject to political attacks far nastier in some ways than those any President has ever faced.”

Way Firsts Jobs Political President Subjects Remains Misunderstood First Lady Undefined

Author:Margaret Truman Daniel

“In the Middle Ages the king offered protection to his subjects in return for their loyalty, and the subjects were doubly protected, for the church also sheltered them. The need for shelter - for a father image that cares and will hopefully provide and give some meaning to human lives - remains as real as it was in the Middle Ages, but modern technocracy has no place for either the father or the church and provides no substitute.”

Source: The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America

“The US remains an object of fascination for me, and the subject of much study, but while many of my friends etc. are American and I have no plans at present to move elsewhere, I consider myself a permanent outsider.”

Moving Study Plans Subjects Objects My Friends Remains Permanent Etc Elsewhere Outsiders Fascination

Author:Luc Sante

“After death the soul possesses self-consciousness, otherwise, it would be the subject of spiritual death, which has already been disproved. With this self-consciousness necessarily remains personality and the consciousness of personal identity.”

Soul Self Would Be Spiritual Consciousness Subjects Identity Personality Remains After Death Self Consciousness Personal Identity Spiritual Death

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Immanuel Kant (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Immanuel Kant (Illustrated)

“The subject I liked best was painting, but the teachers didn't approve of my experiments and sometimes criticized me in front of the whole class. Maybe my love for photography came from that humiliation: a photo is something that you develop and print yourself, in the dark, and that remains in the dark until you decide to show it.”

Sometimes Whole Shows Dark Class Teacher Subjects Fronts Painting Photography Remains Experiments Print Humiliation

Author:Hiroshi Hamaya