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"A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as "You leave me no other choice but to..."" »CIA Manual
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"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance." »Abraham Lincoln
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"When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest." »William Hazlitt
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"The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be a monarch of a little world, command thyself." »Francis Quarles
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"The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose - especially their lives." »Eugene V. Debs
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"No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject." »Cicero
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"Truth is subject to too much analysis." »Frank Herbert, Dune
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"No one should be judge in his own case." »Publilius Syrus
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"Grasp the subject, the words will follow." »Cato the Elder
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"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough." »Groucho Marx
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"The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject." »George Santayana
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"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering." »Richard Buckminster Fuller
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"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." »G. K. Chesterton
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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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"The privilege of absurdity to which no living creature is subject, but man only." »Thomas Hobbes
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"When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course." »Peter Drucker
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"My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me." »Thomas Jefferson, 1801
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"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." »Samuel Johnson
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"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." »G.K. Chesterton
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"The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him." »Rachel Carson
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"Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." »Samuel Johnson
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"Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity." »Barbara Stanwyck
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"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering." »Arthur C. Clarke
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"What is the answer I was silent. In that case, what is the question" »Gertrude Stein
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"The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest." »Conan Doyle
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"In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark." »Nicholson Baker
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"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you." »Mortimer Adler
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"Knowledge is the only instrument of production That is not subject to the law of diminishing returns." »John Maurice Clark
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"An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them." »Werner Karl Heisenberg
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