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• The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make social life possible to man; it reveals the brute in him which underlies them all. In the desperate hand-to-hand struggle for life there is no element of nobility. He who is engaged upon it throws aside honor, he throws aside self-respect, he throws aside all that would make victory worth having - he asks for nothing but bare life.

  Gertrude Bell

  Death, Struggle, Passion

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• Radium is not to enrich any one. It is an element; it is for all people.

  Marie Curie

  People

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• Network marketing is based purely on relationship selling, which is the state of the art in selling today. Small and large companies throughout the country and the world are realizing that individuals selling to their friends and associates is the future of sales, because the critical element in buying is trust.

  Brian Tracy

  Country, Art, Marketing

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• I can pick up a screenplay and flip through the pages.  If all I see is dialog, dialog, dialog, I won't even read it.  I don't care how good the dialog is - it's a moving picture.  It has to move all the time... It's not the stage.  A movie audience doesn't have the patience to sit and learn a lesson.  Their eyes need to be dazzled.  The writer is the most important element in the entire film because if it ain't on the page it ain't going to be on the screen.

  Robert Evans

  Moving, Eye, Important

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• Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to “SNL” was his “Best Of” VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements, and engage with the audience.

  Taran Killam

  Play, Long, People

  "Taran Killam Tells Us About The New ‘SNL’ Season: ‘It’s Such A Positive Energy’". Interview with Ross Luippold, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2013.

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• Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Blessed, Keys, Timing

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• I enjoy writing for both kids and adults, though I think I'm better at children's stories because I was a teacher for so long, and I know that audience well. The process is no different whether I'm writing for children or adults. Really, the elements of making a good story are the same.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Children, Writing

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• When a novelist or screenwriter is looking for a subject, the element he's seeking is conflict. Conflict makes drama. Conflict produces great characters and memorable scenes. So war is a natural topic.

  Steven Pressfield

  Drama, War, Character

  Interview with Will Duquette, www.patheos.com. May 21, 2014.

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• The last element in drama is high stakes. War, of course, is life and death - survival, not only for the story's characters, but often for the society itself. That's why I'm drawn to stories that are built around wars, even if they're not technically "war stories."

  Steven Pressfield

  Drama, War, Character

  Interview with Will Duquette, www.patheos.com. May 21, 2014.

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• It provides a different type of element and mental strain athletes love. That's what makes the game of golf so special.

  Tiger Woods

  Athlete, Golf, Games

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. October 13, 2006.

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• We go into a relationship looking for love, not realizing that we must bring love with us. We must bring a strong sense of self and purpose into a relationship. We must bring a sense of value, of who we are. We must bring an excitement about ourselves, our lives, and the vision we have for these two essential elements. We must bring a respect for wealth and abundance. Having achieved it to some satisfactory degree on our own, we must move into relationships willing to share what we have, rather than being afraid of someone taking it.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Strong, Moving, Self

  "In the Meantime". Book by Iyanla Vanzant, www.cnn.com. 1998.

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• Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social.

  William Bolitho

  Adventure, Individual, Social

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• The theme, or harmony, of a painting can be created by any one of its visual elements. A single colour... repetition of shapes... Light can be a theme.

  Mike Svob

  Light, Shapes, Painting

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• A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance.

  Mike Svob

  Order, Doe, Messages

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• The greatness of common sense, and its title to reverence, appear in this, that it deals with vast complexity, that is, with the innumerable elements of a situation. Common sense discerns and judges a path through this knotted and tangled maze.

  James Vila Blake

  Greatness, Common Sense, Judging

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• Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world, having a sense of the positive meaningfulness of one's existence, and having a fixed set of rules for behavior, but these elements are in principle separable. ... The "metaphysical need," ... both Marx and Nietzsche held, is a historical phenomenon that arises under determinate circumstances, and could be expected to disappear under other circumstances that we could relatively easily envisage.

  Raymond Geuss

  Historical, Principles, Needs

  "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.

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• Africa does not have an uncle abroad who will come to bail it out of its political and economic woes. It is important that African countries wake up and pool whatever resources they have and jointly deal elements pulling our continent down a death blow.

  Bernard Membe

  Country, Uncles, Blow

  "Unity will end crises, Membe tells Africa" by Austin Beyadi, The Guardian, March 28, 2008.

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• The divine element manifests itself (or show up) in man as well by his aptitude for science, than by his aptitude for virtue. True morality, true philosophy and true art are in their essence ("dans leur essence", Fr.) religious."

  African Spir

  Religious, Art, Philosophy

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 40), 1937.

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• I think every individual, and every society, is perfected just in proportion to the combination, and cooperation, of masculine and feminine elements of character. He is the most perfect man who is affectionate as well as intellectual; and she is the most perfect woman who is intellectual as well as affectionate. Every art and science becomes more interesting, viewed both from the masculine and feminine points of view.

  Lydia M. Child

  Art, Character, Men

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• My idea of marriage, as of every other partnership, ... is that each member shall contribute to it his or her personality, unrepressed and uncoerced. Thus, and only thus, we obtain the most complex synthesis possible, which may well surpass in beauty, as it surely does in interest and human value, the separate elements of such an association.

  Phyllis Bentley

  Marriage, Ideas, Personality

  Phyllis Bentley (2011). “Inheritance”, p.460, A&C Black

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• I live to the rhythm of my country and I cannot remain on the sidelines. I want to be here. I want to be part of it. I want to be a witness. I want to walk arm in arm with it. I want to hear it more and more, to cradle it, to carry it like a medal on my chest. Activism is a constant element in my life, even though afterwards I anguish over not having written 'my own things.' Testimonial literature provides evidence of events that people would like to hide, denounces and therefore is political and part of a country in which everything remains to be done and documented.

  Elena Poniatowska

  Country, People, Political

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• Nowhere Man embodies one of my favorite themes - the hero completely out of his element. Its really near and dear to my heart.

  Ruth Glick

  Hero, Heart, Men

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• There's certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I've ended up.

  Clive Owen

  Luck, Huge

  "Any actor who thinks he's a sex symbol has got serious problems". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2009.

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• But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union of consciousness and movement, breath and awareness.

  Carre Otis

  Yoga, Movement, Unions

  "Flexibility, Inside and Out" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• The familiar childhood admonition of 'counting to 10' before taking action works because it emphasizes the two key elements of anger management -- time and distraction.

  Bill Vaughan

  Keys, Two, Childhood

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