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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it. ↗

— Ida Tarbell

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The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be. ↗

— Chuck Jones

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My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue. ↗

— Jack Kilby

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You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year. ↗

— Darrell Royal

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The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons. ↗

— Mike Royko

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Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going on. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

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