Quotes with forms

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  • Asa Gray It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • John Bradshaw It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
    John Bradshaw
    American educator, counselor, motivational speaker, and author (1933 - 2016)
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  • Cass Sunstein It's one thing to make financial aid available to students so they can attend college. It's another thing to design forms that students can actually fill out.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all styles. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any techniques which serve its end.
    Tao of Jeet Kune Do (1975)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Alfred de Vigny Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Michel Foucault Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Winston Churchill Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Alexander Dubcek Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions.
    Alexander Dubcek
    Czechoslovak and Slovak politician (1921 - 1992)
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  • Boyd Rice My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.
    Boyd Rice
    American musician (1956 - )
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  • Carol Bellamy New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Of all the works of man I like best
    Those which have been used.
    The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges
    The knives and forks whose wooden handles
    Have been worn away by many hands: such forms
    Seemed to me the noblest.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Of all the works of man [Von allen Werken] (c. 193
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Bryant H. McGill One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Billy Corgan One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • John Foster Dulles Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.
    John Foster Dulles
    American diplomat (1888 - 1959)
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  • William James Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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