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Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software -- Erich Gamma
Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements. -- John Milton
Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in . . . Ruskin's Elements. -- Claude Monet
Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers. -- Oliver Sacks
Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is rare. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated. -- Abbas Kiarostami
The most violent element in society is ignorance. -- Emma Goldman
Choice impacts virtually every element of our life. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context. -- Cat Stevens
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. -- Harlan Ellison
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. -- Edward Hopper
Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements. -- Bruce Willis
Man needs color to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water. -- Fernand Leger
Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements. -- Harry Houdini
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. -- Carl Sagan
Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies. -- Ernst Mach
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division. -- Henri Bergson
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two. -- Bertolt Brecht
There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man. -- Jean Giraudoux
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. -- Guillaume Apollinaire
Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose. -- Charles Eames
And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good. -- Karlheinz Stockhausen
I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor. -- Steve Buscemi
Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair. -- Leo Fender
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. -- Edith Wharton
Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow. -- Toru Takemitsu
In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. -- Barack Obama
The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life. -- Francesca Annis
Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other. -- Nora Roberts
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character. -- Charles Alexander Eastman
All four elements were happening in equal measure - the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the overall ambience. It taught me that dining could happen at a spiritual level. -- Charlie Trotter
Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge. -- Immanuel Kant
I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line. -- Maximilian Schell
A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or practical. It is neither but includes elements of both. -- Lemn Sissay
While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. -- Eugene V. Debs
When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers. -- Humphry Davy
The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship. -- Suzanne Brockmann
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. -- William Shakespeare
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. -- Richard Courant
I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective. -- Laura Esquivel
Every economy exists, no matter what the level of democracy, has elements of crony capitalism. It's - given human nature and given the democratic structures, which we all, I assume, adhere to, that is an inevitable consequence. -- Alan Greenspan
One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature of the material elements composing the physical and astral corpses, brought about by the burning. -- Annie Besant
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. -- Joseph Addison
In all things and in all ways, choice impacts virtually every element of our life. It bears repeating that even those things which seem out of reach of our choice are governed by how we choose to perceive them. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It's like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart. -- Steven Van Zandt
In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of these systems were finite; that is, they were complete using all possible variations. This kept them simple. -- Sol LeWitt
One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains. -- Laurence D. Fink
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. -- Carl Jung
We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed. -- Stephen King
I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time. -- Peter Maxwell Davies
In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ. -- Ann Voskamp
The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I borrowed elements of people I admired and invested them in this mythical character. I'm such a fluent, specious person now, but I was an extremely awkward fellow in those days. -- John le Carre
When a person listens to a good song, and they can look out at the world and their lives and see the dark and the light, the negative and the positive, all the different elements, all come together in one holistic poem, that is a very healing and very reductive thing, and that's what my music is about. -- Matisyahu
When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world. -- Yves Rossy
My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whether it be breakbeat, whether it be the groove and grunt of James Brown or the pickle-pop sounds of Kraftwerk or Yellow Magic Orchestra, hip hop is also part of what they call hip-house now, or trip hop, or even parts of drum n' bass. -- Afrika Bambaataa
The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses. -- Neville Cardus
Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The noblest of the elements is water -- Pindar
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. -- Brent Scowcroft
The mile has all the elements of a drama. -- Roger Bannister
there are elements of truth in all great fiction -- Teresa Medeiros
In every war, there are always elements of blindness. -- Shimon Peres
Responsibility and commitment are key elements in meeting obligations. -- Zig Ziglar
The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage. -- M. Ward
We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view. -- Edward Abbey
The elements of justice are identical with those of algebra. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
I like to incorporate all different elements into my music. -- Sarah Barthel
There are five elements: earth, air, fire, water and garlic. -- Louis Diat
My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements. -- Alex Colville
Recognition is one of the three big elements of comedy. -- Bill Maher
Energy and patience in business are two indispensable elements of success. -- P. T. Barnum
Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements -- Pythagoras
Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership. -- David McCullough
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Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest. -- Abraham Lincoln
All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience. -- Robert Holdstock
Money is becoming one of the most corrosive elements of politics. -- Trent Lott
Certain elements may try to stretch this beyond what it is. -- Ron Ziegler
Many of the poems weave autobiographical elements with fabular or mythic materials. -- Anna Journey
Perhaps elements like tenacity and humility combine to form a heroic compound. -- Brad Herzog
I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation. -- Henry Reed
The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights. -- Dmitri Mendeleev
The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death. -- Andre Gide
At its core, 'Heroes' is an ensemble character drama with genre elements. -- Masi Oka
Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights. -- Dmitri Mendeleev
Creativity is taking known elements and putting them together in unique ways -- Jacque Fresco
To me a great sci-fi movie has elements of horror and suspense. -- Moon Bloodgood
Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, konnecting people. -- Brion James
I'm a huge fan of the horror genre and the supernatural elements. -- Mena Suvari
Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Don't forget Yemen, where there are also extremist elements, as we saw recently. -- David Petraeus
Learning all the intricacies, all the nerd elements to 'Twilight' was really fun. -- Toni Trucks
It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. -- Carl Rogers
In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target. -- Stephen Hadley
All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth. -- Larry Crabb
It has taken me 20 years to eliminate the unnecessary elements from my work. -- Andrew Lakey
One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself. -- Bill Toomey
The most potent elements in a work of art are, often, its silences. -- Susan Sontag
Every style of dance is a tribute to the elements of the spirit. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Tempo is the glue that sticks all elements of the golf swing together. -- Nick Faldo
Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance. -- Carl von Clausewitz
The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes. -- Zhang Yimou
Throughout hip-hop people have been putting different elements with different types of music. -- Girl Talk
There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career. -- Lesley Garrett
I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting. -- Nahum Goldmann
Hard work, courage and commitment - these are the key elements for success. -- Dalia Grybauskaite
Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world. -- Baden Powell de Aquino
The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations. -- Joe Biden
The U.S.-China relationship, of course, has elements of both cooperation and competition. -- Thomas E. Donilon
The three important elements in hockey are: the forecheck, the backcheck and the paycheck. -- Gilbert Perreault
Your VISION and your self-willingness is the MOST powerful elements to conquer your goal -- Rashedur Ryan Rahman
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. -- Thomas Carlyle
To me, skating should look effortless even when you're doing the hardest of elements. -- Johnny Weir
Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies. -- George Santayana
[The unreactivity of the noble gas elements] belongs to the surest of experimental results. -- Friedrich Paneth
You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice. -- Susan Sontag

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