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Quotation Subject

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A "quotation subject" is simply the subject matter that a quotation refers to. It can be used to find groups of quotations about similar things. For more information about adding quotations to Freebase, see the documentation for the "quotation" type.
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  • Character Species, Quotation Subject, Fictional Species
    An android is a robot designed to resemble a human, usually both in appearance and behavior. The word derives from the Greek andr-, meaning "man, male", and the suffix -eides, used to mean "of the species; alike" (from eidos "species"). Though the word derives from a...
  • Art
    Quotation Subject, Film subject, Field Of Study, Type of museum
    Art refers to a diverse range of human activities and artifacts, and may be used to cover all or any of the arts, including music, literature and other forms. It is most often used to refer specifically to the visual arts, including media such as painting, sculpture,...
  • Industry, Quotation Subject, Type/domain equivalent topic, TV Genre, Media genre, Broadcast Genre
    An automobile (via French from Greek auto, self and Latin mobilis moving, a vehicle that moves itself rather than being moved by another vehicle or animal) or motor car (usually shortened to just car) is a wheel passenger vehicle that carries its own engine or motor....
  • Person, Deceased Person, Author, TV Writer, Influence Node, Quotation Subject
    Alfred Elton van Vogt (April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000) was a Canadian-born science fiction author who was one of the most prolific, yet complex, writers of the mid-twentieth century "Golden Age" of the genre. Born on a farm in Edenburg, a Russian Mennonite...
  • Book Subject, Film subject, Character Species, Industry, Quotation Subject, Profession, Field Of Study, Literary Genre, Media genre, Software Genre
    Artificial intelligence (AI) is both the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science which aims to create it. Major AI textbooks define artificial intelligence as "the study and design of intelligent agents,"where an intelligent agent is a system that...
  • Field Of Study, School type, Quotation Subject
    Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play. The word acting is derived from the...
  • Location, City/Town, Filming location, Quotation Subject, Airport
    Boston (pronounced ) is the capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The city is located in Suffolk County Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of...
  • Quotation Subject
    Beauty is a characteristic of a person, place, object or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, meaning or satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, sociology, social psychology and culture. As a cultural creation, beauty has been...
  • Quotation Subject, Website Category, Field Of Study
    Communication is a process that allows organisms to exchange information by several methods. Communication requires that all parties understand a common language that is exchanged. There are auditory means, such as speaking, singing and sometimes tone of voice, and...
  • Industry, Quotation Subject, Broadcast Genre, Media genre, Literary Genre
    Computer software is a general term used to describe a collection of computer program, procedures and documentation that perform some tasks on a computer system.The term includes application software such as word processor which perform productive tasks for users,...
  • Profession, Book Subject, Quotation Subject, Literary Genre, Media genre, Character Power
    Computer programming (often shortened to programming or coding) is the process of writing, testing, debugging/troubleshooting, and maintaining the source code of computer program. This source code is written in a programming language. The code may be a modification of...
  • C
    Programming Language, Quotation Subject, Environmental modelling language/platform
    C is a general-purpose, block structured, procedural, imperative computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system. It has since spread to many other platforms. Although C was...
  • Quotation Subject, Character Species, Organism Classification
    Camels are even-toed ungulates within the genus Camelus. The dromedary, one-humped or Arabian camel has a single hump, and the Bactrian camel has two humps. They are native to the dry desert areas of western Asia, and central and east Asia, respectively. The life...
  • Quotation Subject, Form of Government, Book Subject
    In political theory, democracy describes a small number of related forms of government and also a political philosophy. A common feature of democracy as currently understood and practiced is competitive elections. Competitive elections are usually seen to require...
  • Quotation Subject
    Death is the end of the life of a biological organism. Death may refer to the end of life as either an event or condition. Many factors can cause or contribute to an organism's death, including predation, disease, habitat destruction, senescence, malnutrition and...
  • Religion, Quotation Subject
    Discordianism is a modern religion centered on the idea that chaos is as important as order. It was founded circa 1958–1959 by Malaclypse the Younger with the publication of its principal text, the Principia Discordia. There is some division as to whether it should be...
  • Field Of Study, Computer Game Genre, Website Category, Quotation Subject, Book Subject, Type/domain equivalent topic, Feed Category, Broadcast Genre, Film subject
    Education encompasses teaching and learning specific skill, and also something less tangible but more profound: the imparting of knowledge, positive judgment and well-developed wisdom. Education has as one of its fundamental aspects the imparting of culture from...
  • Field Of Study, Quotation Subject, Film subject, Broadcast Genre, Book Subject
    Ethics is a major branch of philosophy, encompassing right conduct and good life. It is significantly broader than the common conception of analyzing right and wrong. A central aspect of ethics is "the good life", the life worth living or life that is satisfying, which...
  • Website Category, Quotation Subject, Type/domain equivalent topic, Industry, Broadcast Genre, Field Of Study, Adaptation medium
    Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with camera, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effect. ...
  • Human Language, Field Of Study, Quotation Subject, Person, Broadcast Genre
    French (français, ) is today spoken by about 350 million people around the world as either a native or a second language, with significant populations in 54 countries. French is a descendant of the Latin language of the Roman Empire, as are languages such as...
  • Quotation Subject, Book Subject
    Fascism is a term used to describe authoritarian nationalist political ideologies or mass movements that are concerned with notions of cultural decline or decadence and seek to achieve a millenarian national rebirth by placing the interests of the individual as...
  • Person, Film director, Film writer, Film actor, Film producer, Deceased Person, Quotation Subject, Award Nominee
    Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (January 20 1920 – October 31 1993) was an Italian film director. Known for a distinct style which meshes fantasy and baroque images, he is considered as one of the most influential and widely revered film-makers of the...
  • Quotation Subject, Field Of Study, Film subject, Person
    Graphic design is the process of communicating visual using text and images to present information. Graphic design practice embraces a range of cognitive skills, aesthetics and crafts, including typography, visual arts and page layout. Like other forms of design,...
  • Person, Film director, Film writer, Film producer, Film actor, Deceased Person, Award Winner, Award Nominee, Quotation Subject
    Ernst Ingmar Bergman (pronounced ) (July 14 1918 – July 30 2007) was a nine-time Academy Award-nominated Swedish film, stage, and opera director. He found bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his explorations of the human condition. He is recognized as...
  • Person, Art Subject, Quotation Subject, Saint
    Saint John the Baptist (d. c 30) was a Jew preacher and ascetic. He drew large crowds, , practiced baptism in the River Jordan, and prophesied God's coming judgment. He baptized Jesus, and was killed by Herod Antipas. The historian Josephus (c 37 to c 100) wrote that...
  • Profession, Quotation Subject, Character Occupation, Person, Job title, Website Category
    A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person licensed to practice law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs,...
  • Person, Deceased Person, Quotation Subject, Influence Node
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin , born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov , and also known by the pseudonyms Nikolai Lenin and N. Lenin, ( – January 21, 1924), was a Russian revolutionary, a communist politician, the main leader of the October Revolution, the first head of the Russian...
  • Field Of Study, Computer Game Genre, Quotation Subject, Book Subject, Dissertation, Degree, Broadcast Genre, Profession
    Mathematics (colloquially, maths or math) is the body of knowledge centered on such concepts as quantity, structure, space, and change, and also the academic discipline that studies them. Benjamin Peirce called it "the science that draws necessary conclusions".Other...
  • Quotation Subject, Book Subject
    In psychology, memory is an organism's ability to store, retain, and subsequently retrieve information. Traditional studies of memory began in the realms of philosophy, including techniques of artificially enhancing the memory. The late nineteenth and early twentieth...
  • Quotation Subject
    Mind collectively refers to the aspects of intellect and consciousness manifested as combinations of thought, perception, memory, emotion, will and imagination; mind is the stream of consciousness. It includes all of the brain's conscious processes. This denotation...