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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

Aristotle

Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.

Pythagoras

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

Leon Edel

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein

HEAD-MONEY, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax. In ancient times there lived a king Whose tax-collectors could not wring From all his subjects gold enough To make the royal way less rough. For pleasure's highway, like the dames Whose premises adjoin it, claims Perpetual repairing. So The tax-collectors in a row Appeared before the throne to pray .

Ambrose Bierce

India has very good teachers, especially in math and science. Also, these subjects are culture-free so it is comparatively easy for Indian teachers to teach them. Online tutoring is an area which shows enormous potential for growth.

Kiran Karnik

What the neighbors are telling us is they're dealing with subjects who are intoxicated or hanging around the area.

Lynn Hightower

These subjects were not only on a killing rampage, but they were going to destroy the school.

John Stone

Sometimes you know you did well but fail the subject, whereas you pass other subjects where you do not feel fully competent.

Donman Phongmahung

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.

Jello Biafra

What you can say today is different. Taboo subjects like sex or words like 'shagging' used to be greeted with gasps. Now that sort of thing is scarcely noticed. Jokes haven't changed much, though.

Ray Galton

The subjects in this case targeted (for fund-raising) travelers, primarily of Asian descent, as they arrived at Los Angeles International Airport. They dressed in business attire and used binders containing photographs of starving children and other documents.

James Desarno

At first the connection between the two subjects was not clear, Everywhere I looked I found a connection.

Terry Morris

It was important in this case because there's a couple of subjects I know a little about but I need to know a lot about.

Rowan Woods

Art always deals with big subjects, and great museums address great debates. The more information people have, the more communication, and the better society can be.

Irv Lippman

While on the surface all may appear to be well in these schools, if we dig deeper we find that achievement could be better in some subjects, or for some groups of pupils, and that these schools are falling way behind in terms of providing the sort of education we find in our best schools.

David Ball

English is really the centerpiece of all our work. If a student does not know English, they won't do well in math, science or the other core subjects.

Al Mijares

I want the audience to be surprised by my character all the time. I want them to keep guessing about my roles, so I am doing more of such films and when a new director comes with such subjects I jump for that.

Priyanka Chopra

I've opened my mouth on a lot of subjects. And I thought the more prestige you get, I'd have the power to do what I like. It's not true.

Vanessa Redgrave

I'm curious about everything. Even subjects that don't interest me.

Alex Trebek

The best part is we meet together and study all subjects. It's fun and we actually get to better our education by studying for these subjects. I will try my best. Even if I don't win anything, at least I know I tried.

Danna Maylath

We don't have any physical description. We don't know how many subjects were involved, which is mind-boggling, with all those people around.

Bobby Hernandez

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Nadia Boulanger

Andy Warhol understood early on that death and fame are the subjects that attract the most people. There is this tension in the exhibit that gives it a great strength. Warhol is someone who found an aesthetic in violence, but he also found real beauty in the shallowness of celebrity.

Francesco Bonami

He could mix stories about high fashion and the glamorous world he moved in with the gritty, more difficult subjects of racism and poverty that he knew firsthand and photographed with great sympathy.

John Loengard

They seem like simple subjects at first glance, but you want to keep looking because of the complicated layers of emotions. Even if you don't know the stories behind them, you can feel the emotional power. That's why they resonate with people.

Kathy Foster

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Frank Herbert

Carlos brings a different brand of comedy than most people. He is not afraid to tackle issues. Although some people find his material controversial, he challenges all subjects equally.

Susan Watson

OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it. The King of Ghargaroo, who had been abroad to study the science of government, appointed one hundred of his fattest subjects as members of a parliament to make laws for the collection of revenue. Forty of these he named the Party of Opposition and had his Prime Minister carefully instruct .

Ambrose Bierce

Filmmakers are feeling distant and alienated from the direction of the country. It's important for Hollywood to both entertain and reach out and touch upon subjects that are not simply about the American Dream.

Joe Roth

One thing about Dale is he's a major collector and he's a collector of Americana. He's a really specific collector. He likes to collect a lot of thing in different subjects and one of the passions he has is for American Indian blankets.

Terry Rischel

She's single and she's doing Internet dating, regular dating. She's even done speed dating, where you meet about 20 people at one time. I have two kids, ages 2 and 4, so we think that we can cover most of the subjects that women will want to discuss.

Heidi Hanzel

The two big subjects that supposedly parents are going to help their children understand -- sex and money -- are the two things we have the most difficulty talking about.

Robert Duvall

Since the various types of Chinese porcelain were made for specific markets, including Portuguese, Dutch and English, this was reflected in the subjects. A good example would be the pair of pug dogs, popular in England in the 18th century.

Michael Cohen

However, I hope to be present in the next public hearing that may be conducted on the same or other subjects.

Generoso Senga

In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

John Naisbitt

I approach these questions unwillingly, as they are sore subjects, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handling them.

Titus Livius

We believe it has the potential to establish ethical and scientific safeguards and uniform standards to protect research subjects and improve the risk assessment process.

Jay Vroom

[Your curiosity was the characteristic that editors and reporters mentioned more than any other.] I think of The Times reader as curious, as someone who regards life as a continuing education, ... Each reader has a few subjects about which he or she may be passionate, even expert, and a more wide-ranging appetite that can be seduced, surprised, engaged on almost any subject if we present it well.

Bill Keller

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

Janet Malcolm

We found that stereotypes were activated in all subjects, regardless of whether they had consumed alcohol. But, only the subjects who had consumed alcohol had difficulty controlling their race-related responses once those stereotypes were activated.

Bruce Bartholow

We can confirm the meeting is taking place and is part of the regular dialogue between Microsoft and the Commission on competition and a wide range of other subjects.

Tom Brookes

At this time we still have five subjects, three to five subjects, at large.

Roy Rutland

It's due in part to budget cuts to school music programs. Most people who did know the words, learned it in their music class. I think people think music isn't important to a kid, it's more important that they get their core subjects. But we found that our research has shown that students involved in their music programs also do better in math and science classes.

Julie Bruhn

When I feel a little confused . . . the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again Into the subjects closest to heart.

Raoul Dufy

The key to the behavior of subjects lies not in pent-up anger or aggression, but in the nature of their relationship to authority. They have given themselves to the authority; they see themselves as instruments for the execution of his wishes; once so defined, they are unable to break free.

Stanley Milgram

We listen to him on a variety of subjects. Sean is in contact with him constantly. Yes, we do talk to him and see him as often as we can.

James Dickey

Clayton was such a warm, delightful person. He was a coach to be sure, but he was also a real educator. He could talk your ear off on a lot of subjects, not just football.

Paul George

We're a festival that was started because of an act of war, so we have always had films and panel discussions that bring up difficult subjects.

Jane Rosenthal

You go to the Web site and there are several places where you can (communicate with) us. You can send us e-mail, (or) you can send e-mail to guests that we have on the air to ask their opinion on different subjects.

Rich Zahradnik

We're looking for assistance from members of the public who may have seen two subjects matching this description prior to, and or fleeing the robbery and getting in a vehicle. This happened in a high visibility area. There are probably people out there who witnessed something related to this incident.

Lt. David Covell

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct.

John Frankenheimer

The sovereignty and equality of the Turkish Cypriots and the guaranteed right of Turkey are not negotiable subjects.

Rauf Denktash

We also offer a company-specific 'accredited asset-management specialist' designation. It covers 120 hours of training in subjects such as asset management and allocation, retirement planning, risk management and estate planning.

Christian Clinton

The letters really reveal the real man, unclouded by drugs. Letters were his dreams, fears, a variety of subjects, fidelity, alcohol, faith. It's like reading someone's diary.

Ann Sharpsteen

We have neither desire, need, nor right to know most of Judge Roberts's views on most imaginable subjects.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I tell them, but I get only one chance to ask a question and I want to get in my question about India instead of the other subjects the media is talking about.

Raghubir Goyal

It's a five-color crayon drawing done in 1963 when Picasso was 76-years-old. It's one of his favorite subjects: A Picador in a bullfight.

Jim Tutwiler

He's doing good. He's up to par with his subjects. He tells me he likes it. The only thing is that they're in an area way out from the city (of Charlotte). But that's better for him, he can concentrate.

Ferdinand Bailey

If there's 40 men, there'll be 40 subjects.

Ray Thompson

Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves.

Kate Fox

The second half of football season is toughest because you've been doing it a few months already. Practices start to wear (you down). You get home and you don't feel like doing anything but going to sleep and you've got three or four subjects of homework to do.

Trevin Cowman

It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.

Paulo Freire

We are really excited about this promotion because it gives our readers a chance to interact, ... Readers can exchange valuable tips on subjects such as dealing with food allergies in school to what brand of clothing holds up the best during recess.

Scott Wolf

I think we can talk about ethics a lot, but talk about it with other subjects so it's not just ethics from 8 to 9 on Monday morning. It needs to become a part of all that we do.

Patricia Werhane

I'm running because I believe we need to bring sunshine on these subjects into Capitol Hill and Congress.

Lisa Rea

David's working on subjects that interest me.

William Hurt

What we see in news subjects is that whilst women make up 52 percent of the world's population, they make up only 21 percent of news subjects.

Anna Turley

Football and cookery are the two most important subjects in this country.

Delia Smith

It almost fires you up. It makes us remember we are passionate about our subjects and to hold on to that while we are working on so many pages of reading.

Patti Thomas

I would advise the middle school reform committee to keep in mind what parents want and students need are engaging electives like those that are offered in our high schools. Increasing access to standard course of study beyond core subjects is a key ingredient to educational success.

Heidi Carter

I think that is one possible conclusion but global data shows that in stories reported by women, there is a greater chance that there will be more women news subjects in those stories.

Anna Turley

ALLEGIANCE, n. This thing Allegiance, as I suppose, Is a ring fitted in the subject's nose, Whereby that organ is kept rightly pointed To smell the sweetness of the Lord's anointed. G.J.

Ambrose Bierce

They mentored and knew each other. They also all took photographs of ordinary things by looking for subjects from everyday life. This gives us a sense of a country that feels exotic at the same time it's familiar. That's what makes it a stunning exhibit.

Karen Mcguire

I think people could come out of this movie thinking, although all of these are very serious subjects, (political) spin is very serious because the truth is more important than the spin. But sometimes spin becomes the truth, or that's the perception.

Aaron Eckhart

If girls are interested, they have the potential to go further, ... There are still lingering stereotypes that affect girls in middle school, and they lose interest in the subjects.

Sally Ride

The subjects are math, phonics, language arts, science, art, music and physical education, and history instead of social studies, which I really like.

Candace Crandall

ABI Research regularly gives face-to-face television interviews with CNN, CNBC and the BBC on a variety technology subjects. Chancery Lane's close proximity to London's media enterprises helps us to respond to these requests more effectively. Furthermore we can reach out to clients and industry participants in a very timely manner.

Jake Saunders

There's something about light that's right for these terrible subjects.

Jenny Holzer

For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.

Claude Monet

These big pieces and headdresses, I see them more as abstractions than as subjects.

Hugh Williams

At a time when the king, and most of his subjects, believed his power to be God-given, these were extraordinary sentiments. And the eloquence of those sentences, the nobility and idealism they express, has elevated this piece of legislation to eternal iconic status.

Danny Danziger

A-level examinations were taken in 19 different subjects and students and staff have again worked extremely hard to achieve these excellent results.

David Franklin

China's a socialist country and, like in the Soviet Union before us, many subjects cannot break through in this system.

Cui Zi'en

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.

David Hume

They are easy subjects, very cooperative. They seem to enjoy being studied.

Max Kurz

It's water-cooler talk. Some people would call it reality talk. It's real people on real subjects. I think it will fill a void in the marketplace.

Mark Steinmetz

It surprises me as to why students choose the subjects they do. I can only guess they are not being adequately coached or steered during their education towards skills employers actually want.

Robert Chapman

Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a religion, few persons whose devotion is of long continuance.

Charles De Saint evremond

Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.

Robert Conquest

I sometimes have signs I put on the side of the car. I've got disaster zone signs, pizza signs. If they (surveillance subjects) can identify you, they're not afraid of you anymore.

Jack Hager

I love the Biblical subjects and the Italian art. My favorite artist I can say is Michelangelo. He was an unbelievable artist. He could handle any kind of statue made from stone and paint anything anywhere, like he did at the Sistine Chapel in Rome. It probably is the greatest artwork ever done.

Karl Hepner

There's something about light that's right for these terrible subjects. It's a way of having beauty let you come closer than you might otherwise.

Jenny Holzer

Most of these admissions occurred the same day as the rise in fine particle concentration, which suggests a short lag time between the change in pollution and the subjects' response.

Francesca Dominici

Before we just scratched the surface. Now it appears as though we're going on a deep dive on one or two subjects. This will give us greater insight, instead of tackling 20 different things in rapid fire.

Rick Kearney

These questions used to be just the subjects of philosophy or metaphysics. Now that we can try with scientific methods, we hope to continue the tradition.

Hitoshi Murayama

A second very important message is that subjects enjoyed fitness benefits in the absence of weight loss. Many people exercise with the purpose of losing weight. When they do not lose weight, they do not think the exercise is benefiting them and they stop exercising.

Brian D. Duscha

Our students won't need to learn any new subjects, but they'll need to know them in greater depth. The state finals will be more difficult, and the competition will be much tougher.

Rick Pillsbury

[Some experts claim the Web site appears to be deliberately screening out those with a low interest in spiritual subjects.] Basically, it doesn't allow customers to sign up who fall outside the [spiritual] parameters, ... They don't really care. They have 300,000 people paying $50 a month.

Dave Evans

For all of the core subjects, we've had a teacher.

Jason Standiford

Teachers are deemed highly qualified if they have a bachelor's degree, a Massachusetts teachers license and have demonstrated subject matter competency in each of the subjects they teach. The state is at about 93 percent, and the remainder have until the end of June to show they are highly qualified.

Nate Mackinnon

I think we are getting stronger. We've opened the debate on these (free-trade) subjects, and the indigenous movement is showing its power again.

Luis Macas

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

Gerald F. Lieberman

He has to form a wide coalition because he has very tough decisions ahead of him on all subjects.

Chaim Ramon

My experience was to the contrary, ... He would not accept all our analysis without skepticism and believed we were better on some subjects than others. But those are the characteristics of a good customer.

Richard Kerr

When we analyzed the data for heart failure, we observed a 1.28% increase in admissions for each 10 mg per cubic meter increase in fine-particle pollution. Most of these admissions increases occurred the same day as the rise in fine-particle concentration, which suggests a short lag time between the change in pollution and the subjects? response.

Francesca Dominici

They have much larger student bodies to select team members from, and some of them have as many as eight coaches for different subjects.

Joanne Argyres

Many adults who set aside time for Jewish studies choose to study texts or other subjects, rather than learning Hebrew.

Rachel Miller

The ACT report demonstrates how critical literacy experiences are for high school kids, particularly with regard to assigning them and instructing them in demanding texts in all subjects.

Timothy Shanahan

Individuals of merit always find themselves subjects of interest elsewhere across the landscape of American higher education, and this has been the case with Vice President West.

Jimmy Jones

When we analyzed the data for heart failure, we observed a 1.28 percent increase in admissions for each 10 microgram per cubic meter increase in fine particle pollution. Most of these admissions increases occurred the same day as the rise in fine particle concentration, which suggests a short lag time between the change in pollution and the subjects' response.

Francesca Dominici

The results were spectacular. The region associated with aversion was activated the moment the subjects looked at certain images.

Maurice Ptito

We believe these subjects and patients really learned to control their brain and, through that, their pain...Pain has a huge impact on individual patients, their families and society. I got incredibly jazzed by the results. We could change people's lives. However, significantly more science and testing must be done before this can be considered a treatment for chronic pain.

Sean Mackey

This degree is going to suit very well students in the allied health field, though it was not necessarily designed for that. It is a great launch pad to Ph.D. candidates in many research fields. Our students are going to be very competitive in a variety of Ph.D. subjects.

Jo Goy

He aired documentaries on weighty subjects at a time when CBS, NBC and ABC had largely abandoned them, ... kept his team in Baghdad during the first Gulf War in 1991, even though all the other networks pulled theirs out.

Ken Auletta

There is something for everyone at our book sales. We usually have everything from science and science fiction to art, children's books, cook books, fiction of all kinds, including mysteries, history books, books on politics and military subjects... just everything you could want.

Esther Buck

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

Ernest Bramah

It was difficult getting all of the subjects and making the arrangements. Once we got a hold of them, they were great. But the higher the profile, the harder it was to arrange. Sometimes you had to go through layers of people just to reach them.

Erin Flynn

He's thinking of [his subjects] as ordinary people who are transformed by a touch from God, rather than the Renaissance depiction where people are glowing because of it.

Eleanor Harvey

I didn't want to just go from memory. So I did research, getting Emily Post books and making notes. I really wanted to know that what I was sharing with the girls was correct. Every year they invite me back, and every year the program becomes more elaborate. I keep adding more subjects.

Elaine Swann

Images of Hong Kong from about 1900 to the 1950s typically have a limited range of subjects. The colony's heart was so compact that few photographers went farther than the center.

Edward Stokes

This conference is about gold. But there's going to be other conferences, I hope, dealing with other subjects, especially art, which is an enormous subject.

Edgar Bronfman