Quotes with forms

Quotes 41 till 60 of 136.

  • James Boswell I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
    James Boswell
    Scottish biographer and diarist (1740 - 1795)
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  • Arthur Hertzberg I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God - and I hope you'll quote me on that.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Thornton Wilder I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Walt Whitman I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Albert Ellis I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Abdolkarim Soroush If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
    Abdolkarim Soroush
    Iranian Islamic thinker and reformer (1945 - )
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  • Anna Howard Shaw If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.
    Anna Howard Shaw
    American activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement (1847 - 1919)
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  • Octavio Paz If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
    Octavio Paz
    Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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  • Gloria Steinem If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and domestic abuse, everything, we lose about 6 million humans every year just because they were born female. That's a holocaust every year.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Bruno Maag If you imagine b, d, p, and q, those are letter forms that all the children always mess up. They are mirror forms of one another. That feature is emphasized in a font like Arial, where the shapes are literally mirror forms.
    Bruno Maag
    Swiss type designer and businessman (1962 - )
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  • Assata Shakur Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Bjarke Ingels In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement - pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation - are accommodated with equal priority.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory - horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene - and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Simone Weil In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • August Strindberg In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Adolf Loos It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Winston Churchill It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Edmund Burke It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Thomas Jefferson It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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