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Liberal democracy has endured because its institutions are designed for handling morally hazardous forms of coercive power. It puts the question of how far government… — Michael Ignatieff
A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and epic poems. — Antony Beevor
Basketball and ping-pong are my two forms of exercise. — Kim Gordon
All children are born pure egoists. They perceive their needs to the exclusion of all others. Only through socialization do they learn that some forms… — Andrew Vachss
I think of myself as someone who thinks largely through writing. Thus I write more than most people, and I write in many different forms.… — Samuel R. Delany
There is no common standard for education about diagnosis. Distinguishing between bipolar depression and major depressive disorder, for example, can be difficult, and mistakes are… — Kay Redfield Jamison
My husband, a.k.a. Swede, and I both come from athletic backgrounds, so once we identified the goal - get book published - we attacked it.… — Kresley Cole
Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words. — Leonard Mlodinow
If you spend your life with academics, when you step outside, you realise there is this huge general readership that is almost impossible to reach… — Tom Paulin
I certainly agree that capital is not a one-dimensional object, and that the return on capital takes very different forms for different assets or different… — Thomas Piketty
There are many forms of writing that are common, but also very formulaic, such as annual reports or economic studies. In those areas, people would… — Philip M. Parker
I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction. — Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Lying does exist in crazy forms. — Chris Pine
Being a leading man can come in many different forms. — Jamie Dornan
I have a wish for world peace and the truth. I would like to see a society that will bring happiness to all life forms.… — Nina Hagen
There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in… — Ira Glass
I want to link together ancient forms of storytelling and the future. — Andy Serkis
Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact… — Peter Diamandis
There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and… — Benjamin N. Cardozo
The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found it necessary to discuss their shapes, and gives them no… — William Henry Bragg

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