#element

Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space. ↗

— Walter Lang

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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

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Lying is an elementary means of self-defense. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#lying #means #self-defense

There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance. ↗

— Werner Herzog

#audiences #certainly #cruise #elements #film

Your mission statement says Galer Street is based on global "connectitude." (You people don't just think outside the box, you think outside the dictionary!) ↗

— Maria Semple

#elementary-school #humor #mission-statements #school #education

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#elements #important #listening #most #performing

This goes out to freedom fighters, graffiti writers, innocent lifers, grassroots organizers ↗

— Talib Kweli

#freedom

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe I'm drawn to it as a story element. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#death #dramatic #drawn #element #even

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. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#anything #being #cannot #conceive #dissolved

My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you. ↗

— Shakira

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