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• His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Men, Eulogy

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 5, sc. 5, l. 68

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• No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

  Francis Marion Crawford

  Cute, Friendship, Mean

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• There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

  Thomas Browne

  Religion, Pieces, Divinity

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 2, sect. 11

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• My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Travel, Reading, Writing

  "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

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• For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful to scientific chemistry; but they do not rank as genuine scientific men. The genuine scientific chemist cares just as much to learn about erbium-the extreme rarity of which renders it commercially unimportant-as he does about iron. He is more eager to learn about erbium if the knowledge of it would do more to complete his conception of the Periodic Law, which expresses the mutual relations of the elements.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Science, Men, Law

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• [This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes, but on elements in general and the Periodic Law.... Chemical homogeneity is no longer a guarantee that any supposed element is not a mixture of several of different atomic weights, or that any atomic weight is not merely a mean number.

  Frederick Soddy

  Mean, Science, Light

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• There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Fashion, Memorable, Emotional

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.

  Maggie Smith

  Maggie, Aspect, Physicality

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• When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song

  Michael Bolton

  Song, Different, Nuance

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• Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Israel, Mosaics, Accepting

  "Democracy in the Middle East, PluralIism in Europe: Turkish View". The Turkish Weekly, October 12, 2004.

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• The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter

  Lucian Freud

  Erotic, Matter, Sides

  Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers

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• In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Influence, Reason, Over It

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2003). “The Soul of the Indian”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow.

  Herb Ritts

  Light, Two, Shadow

  Herb Ritts, Paul Martineau, James Crump (2012). “Herb Ritts: L.A. Style”, p.3, Getty Publications

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• I am much more involved in the filmmaking experience on Mag Seven. I'm much more involved in story elements, casting decisions, the writing of the show, the blocking of the scenes.

  Michael Biehn

  Movie, Block, Writing

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• I feel the other element of a western is the land, which is very important in this movie. I mean the land is another character in the piece, actually

  Tom Selleck

  Mean Girls, Character, Land

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• Woman is also the element of conflict.

  Marcello Mastroianni

  Conflict

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.

  Bill Laswell

  Sound, Texture

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• I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I've learned from.

  Jenna Elfman

  Stars, Reality, Understanding

  Interview with Lila Holland, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.

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• The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex

  Bobby Darin

  Sex, Important, Sells

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• Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Weight, Characteristics, Certain

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• The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

  Gabriel Marcel

  Philosophy, Taken, Battle

  Gabriel Marcel (1952). “Men against humanity”

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• It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.

  Lukas Foss

  Missing, Immersion, Electronic Music

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• There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.

  Gustav Stickley

  Beauty, Ideas, House

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• The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Attitude, Philosophy, Medicine

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Thinking, Hands, Four Elements

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