#element

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element? ↗

— Natalie Cole

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After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper. ↗

— Grazia Deledda

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So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody. ↗

— Archie Shepp

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It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood. ↗

— Hu Shih

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For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri. ↗

— Dan Simmons

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I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives. ↗

— Paul Simon

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What I really resent most about people sticking labels on you is that it cuts off all the other elements of what you are because it can only deal with black and white; the cartoon. ↗

— Siouxsie Sioux

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Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

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