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• We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

  Carl Sagan

  Technology, Civilization, Depends

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• When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers.

  Humphry Davy

  Two, Numbers, Ratios

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• One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Character, Unique, Personality

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• No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.

  Patty Duke

  Good Luck, Requirements, Matter

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• Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Artist, Splits, Stones

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• The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

  Mark Hopkins

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mark Hopkins (1852). “Receiving and Giving: A Baccalaureate Sermon, Delivered at Williamstown , Ms. August 15, 1852. Published by Request of the Class”, p.20

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• It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.

  Alfred Jarry

  Beauty, Monsters, Taste

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• It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Peculiar, Faults

  The New York Journal-American, December 8, 1960.

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• The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Character, Molecules, Weight

  Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (2013). “Mendeleev on the Periodic Law: Selected Writings, 1869 - 1905”, p.175, Courier Corporation

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• I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.

  Maria Mitchell

  Rely Upon, Saws, Comets

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Writing, Judging, Looks

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.188, Pan Macmillan

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• Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.

  Christy Turlington

  Sister, Philosophy, Yoga

  "Live Stress-Free with Statistics and Numbers". Book by Vasant D. Chapnerka, p. 160, June 5, 2013.

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• The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.

  Zhang Yimou

  Plot, Stories, Scene

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• Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

  Greg LeMond

  Sports, Cycling, Racing

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• Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Work, Writing, Want

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• The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

  Boris Vian

  White, Black, Problem

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• I think DOOM had just the right mix of elements that keep people coming back to it: great monsters, excellent weapons with great balance, a spooky environment and extreme speed.

  John Romero

  Thinking, People, Scary

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• The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.

  Francesca Annis

  Inspiration, Health, Sleep

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• There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Leadership, Two, Numbers

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• There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Love, Heart, Men

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

  Allen Klein

  Happiness, Laughter, Humor

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• Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  Carl Jung

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The development of personality”

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• From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

  Beth Orton

  Wanted, Humans, Dance Music

  "I'm strong like an ox". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2002.

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• I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Writing, Trying, Essays

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

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• A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Nature, Architecture, Structure

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