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O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the… — Mark Twain
Ah! I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the forms of the mountains in the horizon - to… — Henry David Thoreau
It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one. — Thomas Carlyle
[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders thinly in the… — Loren Eiseley
With my family, I'm trying to raise them to have respect for all people and make friends around the world and feel at home with… — Angelina Jolie
But we assure the socialists that we repudiate only forced organization, not natural organization. We repudiate the forms of association that are forced upon us,… — Frederic Bastiat
I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely… — Thomas Jefferson
The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the… — Michael Parenti
The giving up of personality traits, well-established patterns of behavior, ideologies, and even whole life styles...these are major forms of giving up that are required… — M. Scott Peck
The fundamental problem in the origin of species is not the origin of differences in appearance, since these arise at the level of the geographical… — David Lack
I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common I believe with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that the various forms… — Michael Faraday
America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton. — Ellsworth Huntington
There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from the simplest to… — Charles Lyell
It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied… — Louis Agassiz
[Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of all forms of… — John Burroughs
To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than another?... Each form… — John Dewey
Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns. — Benjamin Disraeli
The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the amorphous.… — Benoit Mandelbrot
We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead… — William James
Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer. — Michel de Montaigne

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