I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.
Sometimes, for me, lyrics are derived from poems that I'm working on, and they kind of cross back and forth between the two.
The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.
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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.
Enlightened groups can exist, as long as the individuals' sense of identity is not derived from a mentally defined image of us.
The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.
The philosophers talk across the centuries exclusively to one another, hermetically sealed from any influences derived from non-philosophical discourse.
Every individual alive today, even the very highest, is to be derived in an unbroken line from the first and lowest forms.
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.
Like it or not taking risks, by a total commitment to the mountain and the vagaries of the weather, is essential for the greater satisfaction to be derived from mountaineering.
That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.
Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
I am not to blame for putting forward, in the course of my work on science, any general rule derived from a previous conclusion.
When I got out of the Nazz, I had it in my mind that simply to be eclectic was an important aspect of making music. It was something that I derived from The Beatles.
[I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.
Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.
Knowledge created a new culture of business derived from the information gathering and analysis capabilities of first the mainframe and then the PC.
All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; [...] magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them.
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs.
Not only the Jew, but also all that is derived from the Jewish mind, corrodes and disintegrates what is best in us.
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.
There are many names for winds derived from localities or from the squalls which sweep from rivers or down mountains.
Some of the most profound realizations that I came to about health did not derive from medicine, but derived from surfing.
For each book, there's a back story of where the idea came from. Sometimes it's derived from a current event or topic of discussion, such as 'Deadline.'
Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.
Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.
When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience.
A world of derived beings, an immense, wide creation, requires an extended scale with various ranks and orders of existence.
The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.
TV—a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. We call it a medium, because nothing's well done.
The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially.
From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science books that I read avidly.
Whatever it is, music should sound spontaneous, I've derived a great deal of pleasure from playing jazz and having the knowledge of that spontaneity.
The pamphlet uses my name, my likeness, my 'shtick' (if you will), and my very act, which is derived from my personality, to attract attention and converts.
There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.
It is a fact that all the ballet's fundamental dance steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.
All power is lodged in, and consequently derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour.
The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and tradition.
There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.
The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.
Statistics may be defined as the discipline concerned with the treatment of numerical data derived from groups of individuals.
I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.
The discontinuous 'reduction of the wave packets' which cannot be derived from Schroedinger's equation is ... a consequence of the transition from the possible to the actual.
Many artists I enjoy have a large body of work, and eventually the message is derived out from the sum of its parts.
The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.
Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse.
The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire- soon it will go out.
Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.
Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
The name 'Amazon' was not originally Greek; linguists believe it derived from the ancient Iranian word for 'warrior.'
I was one of God's chosen few, no doubt about it. Not only being elected, but the joy and pleasure I derived from it. It was a wonderful life.
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