Elements Quotes
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This is the strange thing about existing in time. As [Philip] Larkin puts it, "truly, though our element is time, we are not used to the strange perspectives open at each moment of our lives" - something like that.
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The solution to the novel's legal problem is a satisfyingly intricate one, and nobody will want his money back on the plot. But the echoes that will remain in your mind after you've finished Reversible Errors will mainly have to do with the novel's other elements.
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Our element is unending immaturity.
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Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.
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I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing.
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All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.
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Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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A fine poem combines the elements of meaning, music, and a form like a living frame that holds it together.
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It's that element of surprise. When you lose control, you discover new things.
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I feel that, as a Puerto Rican and Latin American musician, a lot of the stuff that I write, even if I mean it or not, is gonna have some elements of that.
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings.
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We are combining elements like tuxedos and workwear, for contrast; some looks also are based on 30s-era inspirations.
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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.
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If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three.
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The elements of good trading are: 1, cutting losses. 2, cutting losses. And 3, cutting losses. If you can follow these three rules, you may have a chance.
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Many of the poems weave autobiographical elements with fabular or mythic materials.
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The triangle pointing downward is a female symbol corresponding to the yoni and the upward pointing triangle is the male, the lingam ... When the two triangles are interlaced, it represents the union of the active and passive forces in nature; it represents the male and female elements.
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Then there's politics. Just imagine politics with its dumbbell element subtracted. There would be no Republican candidates. There would be no Democratic voters. The whole system would collapse.
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The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.
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All the necessary elements of a room should not arrive on installation day. Room should always be left for the things we will acquire...the objects we cannot live without.
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Not bodies produce sensations, but element-complexes (sensation-complexes) constitute the bodies. When the physicist considers the bodies as the permanent reality, the 'elements' as the transient appearance, he does not realise that all 'bodies' are only mental symbols for element-complexes (sensation-complexes).
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The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.
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It has taken me 20 years to eliminate the unnecessary elements from my work.
