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"One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun." »Elmer Davis
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"So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation." »Michel de Montaigne
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"Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second." »Helen Hunt Jackson
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"Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient method of deciding which ones were worth his attention: Upon receiving a new book, he immediately checked the index to see if his name was cited, and how often. The more "Malinowski" the more compelling the book. No "Malinowski," and he doubted the subject of the book was anthropology at all." »Neil Postman
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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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"Be the first to the field and the last to the couch." »Chinese Proverb
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"The computing field is always in need of new cliches." »Alan Perlis
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"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." »Winston Churchill
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"The key to success in every field is to hate failure in every way." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"It's off the leg and into the left field of Doug Radar." »Jerry Coleman
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"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." »Ovid
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"Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"Take rest a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." »Ovid
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"Children speak in the field what they hear in the house." »Scottish Proverb
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"The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it." »Wilfred A. Peterson
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"If you don't sow your field what harvest other than thorns and weeds can you anticipate?" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play." »Warren Beatty
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"My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going to be scared." »P. J. Plauger
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"The secret of greatness is simple do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it." »Wilfred A. Peterson
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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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"My soldiers ask of me, why surrender a military advantage in the field ... I could not answer." »General Douglas MacArthur, His final address to the joint session of the congress
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"Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out." »Sybil Adelman
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"Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field." »John Gregory Dunne, Nothing Lost
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"In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind." »Louis Pasteur, lecture 1854
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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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