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- Nov 07, 2020
Elemental Quotes
Quotes describing raw, elemental forces in nature, justice and storytelling.
These quotes use 'elemental' to describe forces that feel basic and unavoidable, from stupidity described as a force no earthquake can match to a reverence for the life-giving earth shared by primitive peoples. The tone is reflective and grounded in nature.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities.
- Greed
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- Nov 07, 2020
We find personal success and great, if not enduring, influence on the outer fashioning of the world allotted to the violent, the passionate individual who, unchaining the elemental principles of human impulse under favoring circumstances, points out to greed and self-indulgence the speedy pathways to their satisfaction.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Early
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- Nov 07, 2020
As in the early 20th century, the elemental forces of globalisation have unravelled broad solidarities and loyalties.
- Cries
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Elements
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.
- Reflection
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
Food trends don't just drive the obvious things, like cupcakes or cronuts, but something as elemental as your daily cup of coffee. The way you have that coffee now is probably very different from the way you had it ten years ago, and it'll probably be very different in ten years. That has a huge impact, culturally and economically.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help us work through.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
- Level
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
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- Nov 07, 2020