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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill

Change, Mind, Won

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Ayn Rand

Political, Away, Vote

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Time, Power, Truth

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis

Mean, Words, Big

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
Thomas Jefferson

Book, America, Become

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas Jefferson

Fear, Live, Long

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
William Shakespeare

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Great, God, After

I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.
Marilyn Monroe

School, Remember, Friends

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.
Eminem

Writing, Whatever, Playing

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
George Washington

Power, War, After

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
H. P. Lovecraft

Him, Enough, Opinion

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.
Frank Sinatra

Women, Men, Truth

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
George Bernard Shaw

Marriage, Thought, Dangerous

I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.
Clint Eastwood

Someone, Question, Genius

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.
Huey Newton

Moment, Slavery, Slaves

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
Ernest Hemingway

Rather, Choose, Chose

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Joseph Addison

Life, Nature, Humanity

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Silent, Cheese, Poets

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Charles Dickens

Time, Done, Order

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Don Marquis

Age, Live, Long

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
Bertrand Russell

True, Saying, May

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Person, Themselves, Remorse

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
Victor Hugo

Style, Substance, Surface

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
Henri Matisse

Good, Art, Mind

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That's not my issue.
Billy Graham

Political, Talk, Audience

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
Charles Darwin

Evil, Become, Mine

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Person, Earth, Exist

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.
Ruby Wax

Mother, Hard, Studied

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Bertrand Russell

Life, Time, Freedom

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