#element

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow. ↗

— David Hobson

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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money. ↗

— J. Edgar Hoover

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No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. ↗

— Edward Hopper

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I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds. ↗

— Edward Hopper

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Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements. ↗

— Harry Houdini

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Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves. ↗

— Dean Inge

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I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other. ↗

— Karen Allen

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About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power. ↗

— Sidney Altman

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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

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I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements. ↗

— Piers Anthony

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