Quotes with form-theories

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  • Aristotle Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Booker T. Washington Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
    An Address on Abraham Lincoln before the Republican Club of New York City (1909)
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • George Washington Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Ambrose Bierce REVOLUTION: In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
    The Devil's Dictionary
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Sherlock Holmes The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Bertrand Russell A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Lord George Byron A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Buddha A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Marcel Proust A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Sir Laurence Olivier Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism.
    Sir Laurence Olivier
    English actor and stage director (1907 - 1989)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • John Huston After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
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  • Aldous Huxley After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.
    The Integration of the Personality (1939)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Colm Toibin All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.
    Colm Toibin
    Irish novelist and writer (1955 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently . Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Carl Lewis Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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