"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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"A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful."
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"The originality of a subject is in its treatment."
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"Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls."
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"I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians."
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"There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about."
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"That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects."
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"... a science must deal with a subject and its properties."
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"No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject."
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"Sex was a great no-no for Americans, so that was obviously an attraction to the writers, and since sex is a great part of most people's lives, it's a great subject."
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"Have the utmost respect for your subjects. Love them."
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"There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that market."
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"The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened."
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"The subject says: I see first many things which dance... then everything gradually becomes connected."
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"I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject."
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"That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject."
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