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Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of… — Charles Dickens
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting… — Douglas Adams
I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with… — Plutarch
I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have never seen; which… — Germaine Greer
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with… — Carl Jung
Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship,… — Swami Vivekananda
The question occurred to me: Well, if that's so, if the Divine is ultimately formless and genderless, what's the big deal? Why all this bother?… — Sue Monk Kidd
some we know to be dead even though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through all the forms of… — Virginia Woolf
All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs. — Madeleine L'Engle
In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe forms of autism but allow the milder forms to survive.… — Temple Grandin
we must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they may be; the… — Angela Carter
It may be that we exist and cease to exist in alternations, like the minute dots in some forms of toned printing or the succession… — H.G. Wells
Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing… — Octavio Paz
Around us, life bursts with miracles--a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in… — Nhat Hanh
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. — Aristotle
Woman wants monogamy; Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun; Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but in her lord;… — Dorothy Parker
The world turns and the world spins, the tide runs in and the tide runs out, and there is nothing in the world more beautiful… — Gary D. Schmidt
Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar. — Jeanette Winterson
no form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety… — D. H. Lawrence

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