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“Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.”

Soul Might Turns Music Elements Oneness Your Soul Melody Rivalry Discord Peacemaker

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.”

Source: The Man on the Ceiling

“In war the chief incalculable is the human will, which manifests itself in resistance, which in turn lies in the province of tactics. Strategy has not to overcome resistance, except from nature. Its purpose is to diminish the possibility of resistance, and it seeks to fulfil this purpose by exploiting the elements of movement and surprise.”

Humans War Lying Purpose Turns Military Movement Possibility Elements Overcoming Strategy Surprise Resistance Chiefs Diminish Tactics Provinces Human Will

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern.”

Different Order Turns Given Elements Patterns Now And Then Kaleidoscope

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)

“We must therefore turn to history for enlightenment; here we find that none of the proclaimed anarchist groups correspond to the libertarian position, that even the best of them have unrealistic and socialistic elements in their doctrines. Furthermore, we find that all of the current anarchists are irrational collectivists, and therefore at opposite poles from our position. We must therefore conclude that we are not anarchists, and that those who call us anarchists are not on firm etymological ground, and are being completely unhistorical.”

Turns Groups Position Elements Enlightenment Opposites Currents Libertarian Doctrine Firm Irrational Anarchism Anarchist

Author:Murray Rothbard

“Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.”

Might Turns Passion Difficult Beauty Moral Fashion Periods Elements Eternal Eternity Difficulty Determine Relative Quantity

Author:Jean-Luc Godard

“Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.”

Reality Turns Imagination Fantasy Air Elements Stones Crucial Liquid Venice Ignite

Book:Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice

Source: Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice

“There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.”

Thinking Humans Turns Race Feet Cry Despair Elements Disappointment Satisfaction Superiors Human Race Idols Clay Hints Told You So

Author:Alice Thomas Ellis

“Black people are the only segment in American society that is defined by its weakest elements. Every other segment is defined by its highest achievement. We have to turn that around.”

People Turns Black Elements Achievement Highest Defined Black People American Society

Author:Jewell Jackson McCabe

“For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest!”

Firsts Soul Ends Light Pain Turns Black Voice Minutes Worst Elements Brave Rage My Soul Thee Breasts Rave

Book:The Works of Robert Browning

Source: The Works of Robert Browning

“The Elements of Prayer|Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth in us. |Its use: to turn our will to His will. |Its end: to be made one with Him and like to Him in all things.”

Made Ends Use Turns Prayer Goodness Elements All Things

Author:Julian of Norwich