Quotes with forms

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  • Havelock Ellis Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Asa Gray This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Brian Tracy Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Arthur Hugh Clough Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.
    Arthur Hugh Clough
    English poet (1819 - 1861)
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  • Eliza Cook Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis ''good works'' make the man.
    Eliza Cook
    English author and poet (1818 - 1889)
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  • Bill Mollison Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.
    Permaculture: A Designers Manual chapter 3.10
    Bill Mollison
    Australian author, teacher and biologist (1928 - 2016)
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  • Ray Bradbury We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Noam Chomsky We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Barnett Newman We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
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  • Nicolai A. Berdyaev We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the practical atheism of everyday living, in indifference and torpor. We often encounter these forms of atheism among those who are formally Christians.
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  • Marcus Aurelius Whatever is in any way beautiful has its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Ben Harper When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you can't just use the same colours in every painting. It's just not an option. You can't take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Antonin Artaud When we speak the word "life," it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Aristotle A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Francis Schaeffer Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.
    Francis Schaeffer
    American theologian and philosopher (1912 - 1984)
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