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I've been deflecting Calypso's blushes all day. I don't have the energy to deflect yours," he said through clenched teeth. "So either block or strip." -- The Twelfth House ~ The Elementals Book I -- T.L. McCallan
Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions. -- Charles Wagner
Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match. -- Karl Kraus
I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way. -- Carl Sandburg
All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us. -- Albert Einstein
I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it. -- Maggie Smith
Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level. -- Bill Griffith
Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key. -- Christopher Nolan
Running is special. We've all done it: well, poorly, focused, in fear, being pursued, toward a goal. It's just elemental. Running is like fire. -- Rob Delaney
I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. -- Henry Beston
Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression. -- Emile M. Cioran
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point. -- Saint Augustine
Rock. . . is the expression of elemental passions...In the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath the elemental force of the universe. -- Pope Benedict XVI
The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration -- Hjalmar Branting
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance. -- Albert Einstein
Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral. -- Stefan Zweig
If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by looking at the Constitution, with the goal of holding a new Constitutional Convention. -- Larry J. Sabato
The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures. -- Stewart Udall
When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith. -- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual? -- Albert Einstein
By outlawing Solidarity, a free trade organization to which an overwhelming majority of Polish workers and farmers belong, they have made it clear that they never had any intention of restoring one of the most elemental human rights the right to belong to a free trade union. -- Ronald Reagan
Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or even though it appears to require the repudiation of any claim women might have to full human standing. In the subordination of women, inequality itself is sexualized, made into the experience of sexual pleasure, essential to sexual desire. -- Andrea Dworkin
I'm curious about other universes, and nonhuman elementals. For me it's still a very lively ethos. It's a kind of practice. It's an ethos that is very sustaining. -- Anne Waldman

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