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«Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.»
«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
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«An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature»
«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)
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«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
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«But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.»
«For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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«First the stalk - then the roots. First the need - then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus - then the elements needed for its growth.»
«Don't waste the elements nor misuse them.»
«His life was gentle, and the elements / So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up / And say to all the world, / This was a man!»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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