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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some. ↗

— Shelby Lynne

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One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means. ↗

— Dennis Ross

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The popularity of Groupon has almost rendered the group-buying element of it obsolete, because we're able to deliver so many customers that the merchants are very happy with even the smallest number that we can provide. ↗

— Andrew Mason

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Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

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Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

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