| "The most violent element in society is ignorance." »Emma Goldman |
| "Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "The society of women is the element of good manners." »Johann von Goethe |
| "If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be." »Marquis de Sade |
| "Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before." »Edith Wharton |
| "Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people." »Andr Dubus |
| "I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts the rest are details." »Albert Einstein |
| "The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good-will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism." »James Harvey Robinson |
| "The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them." »Jean Cocteau |
| "An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child." »Carl Gustav Jung |
| "Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success Indeed it does not ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind." »John W. Hanley |
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