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«Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.»
Author: John Lubbock
(Biologist, Politician)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
color, colors, elements, Human eye, purest, The Eye, trains, unquestionably
«Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility. Effective leaders are able to»
Author: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
(Consultant, Speaker)
| About:
Creativity
| Keywords:
bits, bits and pieces, but then, effective, elements, entices, enticing, everyone else, floating, kaleidoscope, leaders, looking at, One Piece, pieces, possibility, reassemble, reassembles, reassembling
«Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
accuracy, elements, inaccuracy, kin, statement
«If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements. And finally, there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
abandoning, clothing, contentment, cultivating, delight, desires, elements, extremely, faulty, finally, food, helpful, intense, meditation, meditations, protect, satisfaction, satisfied, shelter, simplicity, States, The Elements, vital
«Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death»
«A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Politics,
Stability
| Keywords:
elements, Party of, reform, stability
«A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.»
Author: Umberto Eco
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
Books not, clumsy, devotes, elements, fragile, librarian, librarians, oblivion, protects, the books, The Elements, The Librarian
«Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: / But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, / To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
adoption, bondage, elements, even so, his son, in bondage, redeem, sons, The Elements
«A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| Keywords:
accumulated, accumulates, accumulating, centuries, civilization, customs, distance, elements, heritage, justify, justifying, open up, paths, slowly
«Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
Blood and, blood relation, bones, design, dimension, elements, flux, fourth, fourth dimension, invent, recognition, relation, various
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