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“We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.”

People Self Talking Subjects Treats Reproach

Author:Anatole France

“By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.”

Way Book Fall Games Term Virtue Subjects Media Source Discipline Messages News Treats Access Reporters Default

Author:Ron Suskind

“He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.”

Men Subjects Treats Humble Moderates Eloquence Lofty Eloquent Delicacy

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.”

Poetry Subjects Serious Treats Simplicity Noble Arise Gifted Severity Serious Subjects

Author:Matthew Arnold

“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

“The strange and wonderful Book of Job treats of the same subject as we are discussing; its contents are a fiction, conceived for the purpose of explaining the different opinions which people hold on Divine Providence. ...This fiction, however, is in so far different from other fictions that it includes profound ideas and great mysteries, removes great doubts, and reveals the most important truths. I will discuss it as fully as possible; and I will also tell you the words of our Sages that suggested to me the explanation of this great poem.”

“If you treat your subject with seriousness and respect, other people tend to treat it the same way.”

People Ifs Way Subjects Treats Seriousness Respecting Others

Author:Vanessa Friedman

“Philosophy treats of physics where a more careful knowledge is required because the problems which come under this head are numerous... So the reader of Ctesibius or Archimedes and the other writers of treatises of the same class will not be able to appreciate them unless he has been trained in these subjects by the philosophers.”

Has Beens Philosophy Problem Able Class Subjects Reader Appreciate Treats Philosopher Careful Physics

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“The secret for an artist is to make that a subject and not bang your head against the wall and give up. But to turn it into and treat the new subject matter, which is one's own vanishing.”

Giving Matter Artist Turns Secret Subjects Wall Giving Up Treats Bangs Subject Matter Vanishing

Author:Clive James