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"Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, all are related by one permanent element, which we may call the religious element inherent in all life, even in a flea: the sense of wonder. That is our sixth sense, and it is the natural religious sense."
"I'm a fan of hip hop music, so I always used a hip hop element in my music anyway."
"Militarism consumes the strongest and most productive elements of each nation. Militarism swallows the largest part of the national revenue."
"I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in."
"My performances may have elements that some may find entertaining, but that's not my main purpose."
"Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element."
"I don't write easily or rapidly. My first draft usually has only a few elements worth keeping. I have to find what those are and build from them and throw out what doesn't work, or what simply is not alive."
"There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position."
"We're better in the rearview mirror than we are at predicting - 'cause you're never going to be right every time. You can handicap it. You can point to certain elements that make it work, and many of those elements come straight out of epidemiology, right?"
"Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant."
"Let us look at wealth and poverty. The affluent society and the deprived society inter-are. The wealth of one society is made of the poverty of the other. "This is like this, because that is like that." Wealth is made of non-wealth elements, and poverty is made by non-poverty elements. [...] so we must be careful not to imprison ourselves in concepts. The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be. We are responsible fo everything that happens around us."
"When ["Wonder Woman" creator William Moulton] Marston died in 1947, they got rid of the pervy elements, and instantly sales plummeted. Wonder Woman should be the most sexually attractive, intelligent, potent woman you can imagine. Instead she became this weird cross between the Virgin Mary and Mary Tyler Moore that didn't even appeal to girls."
"I like to prepare as much as possible beforehand, but there's definitely that element of fear when you're on set, and you have to be conscious of it and use that fear to drive you to work harder."
"The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly for quality, integrated education or his whole drive for freedom will be undermined by the absence of a most vital and indispensable element - learning."
"The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic."
"This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot."
"There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing."
"Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy."
"Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?"
"That's the hardest thing about doing sequels - you've lost the element of surprise."
