Frida Kahlo
Painter
"I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better."
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Subjects
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Pythagoras
Philosopher, Mathematician
"Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few."
Jim Rohn
Author, Motivational Speaker
"The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there."
Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it."
James D. Watson
Molecular Biologist, Geneticist
"The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers."
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"Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom."
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"The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary."
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"Sincerity is always subject to proof."
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"Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation."
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"The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it."
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"No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know"
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"I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject."
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"My subject is my life, and my life is my subject."
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"On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him."
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"The presence of a king engenders love Amongst his subjects, and his royal friends."
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"When a doctor makes a mistake, it's best to bury the subject."
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"We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person."
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"Ignorance breeds fear; the more you learn about your subject, the less fear it holds for you."
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"The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it."
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"The American continents, by the free and independent condition by which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers."
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"I've never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing."
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"I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I could about the subject."
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"I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me."
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"It is the subjective world that rules the objective. Change the subject, and the object is bound to change; purify youreslf, and the world is bound to be purified."
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"The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we could make it singularly clear."
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