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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oscar Wilde Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Assata Shakur People are really beginning to see the mechanisms of imperialism. When colonialism existed people could see colonialism. When racial segregation existed in its apartheid form, people could see the whites only signs. But it's much more difficult to see the structures of neo-imperialism, neo-colonialism, neo-slavery.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • George Ade In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.
    George Ade
    American humorist, playwright (1866 - 1944)
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  • Ansel Adams In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Iris Murdoch A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the façade of his appearance.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Benjamin Haydon All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Toni Morrison Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Albert Einstein Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Alexander Herzen Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Luis Bunuel In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    German church leader and resistance fighter (1906 - 1945)
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  • Claude Lévi-Strauss Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
    Claude Lévi-Strauss
    French anthropologist (1908 - 2009)
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