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"Time is the most precious element of human existence."
"Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity."
"Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any."
"I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing."
"The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction."
"By taking elements you observe in life, you can develop qualities in your acting life that you don't ordinarily call upon in your personal life."
"I live and breathe every element in life."
"To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do it because there's an element of alienation in your life."
"The society of women is the element of good manners."
"The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should lay more stress on the external, tangible element than on the hidden motive."
"I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives."
"There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle."
"When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself - the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and water, a place of compromise and conflit and eternal change."
"I want there to be a life for the street element. Instead of we always getting shut out. Instead of defenseless, having power."
"When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power. But both love and power are based on wonder."
"The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements."
"Doubt is but another element of faith."
"When things are in order, if the cause of the orderliness cannot be deduced from the motion of the elements or from the composition of matter, it is quite possibly a cause possessing a mind."
"Pain has an element of blank"