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On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

Hu Shih

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

Ida Tarbell

People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.

Ilka Chase

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

Jacques Barzun

The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.

James Meade

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

Jawaharlal Nehru

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Jeremy Bentham

I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive.

Jerry Seinfeld

All human things are subject to decay; And when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

John Dryden

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

John Keats

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

John Stuart Mill

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.

Jon Meacham

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.

Katherine Anne Porter

There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.

Marcus Aurelius

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.

Nikita Khrushchev

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

Oscar Wilde

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

Paul Cezanne

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

Peter Drucker

Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.

Peter Sellers

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

Pope Paul VI

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

Quentin Crisp

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

Robert Frank

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