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One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House of… — Kenny Smith
All forms of fear produce fatigue. — Bertrand Russell
Fraud and deceit have been practiced since the beginning of history...Brass has been called gold; glass has been sold as diamonds; and poison has been… — John Andreas Widtsoe
Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors... — Spencer W. Kimball
One of the easiest forms of pretense to break down is the pretense of enthusiasm for exotic foods. Just bring on the exotic foods. — Robert Benchley
Fundamentalism in most of its forms is the active creation of antibodies to some threatening [god] virus. As long as threatening religions or mutations [heresies]… — Darrel Ray
Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which might disturb the… — David Lack
We too often forget that faith is a matter of questioning and struggle before it becomes one of certitude and peace. You have to doubt… — Thomas Merton
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void. — Simone Weil
Betrayal, in all forms, is painful. It can make you go crazy. But we all have choices on how to deal with it. Do we… — Anne Curtis
When life takes away the forms that you thought were the foundation of your life, what's left? The life that needs no foundation - that… — Eckhart Tolle
The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and… — Salvatore Quasimodo
Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which… — Hans Bender
...Americans...automatically equate dissension with disloyalty. They view any criticism of our existing social, economic, and political forms, as sedition and subversion. ...(" The growing reluctance… — J. Paul Getty
Huts they made then, and fire, and skins for clothing, And a woman yielded to one man in wedlock... ... Common, to see the offspring… — Lucretius
Let yourself be loved, O Beloved, in the One. And from this One move out into the world, carrying within you the great potent energies… — Rumi
I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of men, and inclined… — Thomas Jefferson
Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society -- and the… — Ayn Rand
The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree. — Aristotle
the walk liberating, I was released from forms, from the perpendiculars, straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends… — A. R. Ammons

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