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Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our… — William Robertson Smith
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not… — Deborah Bull
Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind… — Doris Humphrey
It was then that my religious consciousness emerged to flower years afterward into definite forms of religious dancing in which there is no sense of… — Ruth St. Denis
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the… — Oscar Wilde
My 20s was a sea of worry. I worried about benefit forms, about being thrown out of my flat. I never went on holiday because… — David Nicholls
Dance is one of the most powerful forms of magical ritual...It is an outer expression of the inner spirit. — Ted Andrews
Dance today is clearly in an unsettled state. Old forms and traditions are being given up. New ones are arising to take their place. A… — Margaret H'Doubler
Modern equalitarian societies whether democratic or authoritarian in their political forms, always base themselves on the claim that they are making life happier. Happiness thus… — Robert Warshow
Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a… — Rabindranath Tagore
Although the teachers or the students are not the same, the person in charge of education is being formed or re-formed as he/she teaches, and… — Paulo Freire
Don't think of God in terms of forms, because forms are limited and God is unlimited. — C.S. Lewis
The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine… — Simon Newcomb
Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes.... The only people… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Pure faith in the benevolece of the Divine can also degenerate into destructive forms of religion like othodoxy, fundamentalism, sectarianism, fanaticism, black magic and witchcraft. — Nirmala Srivastava
Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of… — Leon Trotsky
Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it is not false… — Herbert Marcuse
The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance - a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them… — Lance Morrow
Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to… — Andre Malraux
Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our lives and urge… — Jean Houston

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