Forms Quotes
2237 quotes by 1601 authors
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Health education emphasizing risks is a form of pedagogy, which, like other forms, serves to legitimize ideologies and social practices. Risk discourse in the public…
— Deborah Lupton
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When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to…
— Juan Goytisolo
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At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms…
— Josh Hutcherson
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Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. I think it's healthy to return to classical forms.
— Michael Haneke
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The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food,…
— Fredric Jameson
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The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his…
— Jerry B. Jenkins
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Although I insist that God has always had the power to intervene directly in nature to create new forms, I am willing to be per-suaded…
— Phillip E. Johnson
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First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms…
— Phillip E. Johnson
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...the nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed - as a robot might be artificially constructed - to mimic the pain behavior of…
— Peter Singer
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Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be surprising that object…
— George Lakoff
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What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about…
— Peter Zumthor
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In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.
— Peter Zumthor
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Developing a genius mindset essentially comes down to two things: operating at speed and using the subconscious mind more than the conscious. This intuitive or…
— James Morcan
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Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate,…
— Vaclav Smil
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I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.
— Cameron Monaghan
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I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my…
— Susan B. Anthony
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We have already discovered the fact that fear is the chief reason for poverty and failure and misery that takes on a thousand different forms.…
— Napoleon Hill
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In all forms of magick, the imagination or image-making faculty is the most important factor
— Kenneth Grant
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I have received hostile voice mail messages and e-mails. They are often anonymous, I'm sad to say, as anonymous messages are delivered only by very…
— Ben Brantley
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Clothes, when abstracted from the flow of present time and their transmogrifying function on the human body, and seen as forms in themselves, are strange…
— Robert Musil
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