Forms Quotes
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We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore…
— Thomas Jefferson
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For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that…
— John Dewey
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There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
— Jane Austen
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Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy…
— Frank Herbert
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They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he…
— Haruki Murakami
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This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
— Irving Stone
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Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician…
— Terry Pratchett
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Talk to strangers when the family fails and friends lead you astray when Buddha laughs and Jesus weeps and it turns out God is gay.…
— Saul Williams
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Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.
— Robert Musil
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There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language…
— George Sand
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of…
— Ezra Pound
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In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in…
— Harold Brodkey
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Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.
— Augusto Roa Bastos
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Yes, Eden was beautiful- and if I had to squeeze through corporeal keyholes to crash it- so be it. (Hasn’t it bothered you, this part…
— Glen Duncan
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[Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in…
— Truman Capote
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The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and…
— Edwin Markham
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Engaged in a fiery dance, their bodies were linked and seperated by the flashing blades. At times they nearly touched, taut skin only a hair's…
— Christopher Paolini
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