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34 quotesThe plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
Nature
Guillaume Apollinaire
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Tyranny
Edmund Burke
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Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
Speakers and Speaking
Cato The Elder
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Fanatics and Fanaticism
Winston Churchill
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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
Evil
Charles R. Darwin
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When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Education
Peter F. Drucker
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All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
Death and Dying
John Dryden
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
Fate
John Dryden
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The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
Conquest
George Eliot
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A specialist is a person who fears the other subjects.
Experts
Martin H. Fisher
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We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.
Egotism
Anatole France
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I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Speakers and Speaking
Mark Victor Hansen
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If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
Speculation
William Hazlitt
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When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Controversy
William Hazlitt
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The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
Absurdity
Thomas Hobbes
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Controversy
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Age and Aging
Thomas Jefferson
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Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
Pain
Samuel Johnson
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Information on the Internet is subject to the same rules and regulations as conversation at a bar.
Internet
George Lundberg
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Order and simplification are the first steps towards the mastery of a subject.
Simplicity
Thomas Mann
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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.
Leaders and Leadership
Motto
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The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
Argument
Jawaharlal Nehru
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A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
Uncategorised
Richard M. Nixon
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Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.
Photography
Eliot Porter
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Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Colonel Muhammar Qaddafi
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun