Shaped Quotes

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Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and… — Ronald Reagan
In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences. — J. B. Priestley
For, in truth, an image is only dead matter shaped by the craftsman's hand. But we have no sensible image of sensible matter, but an… — Clement of Alexandria
The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than… — Eric Hoffer
If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in general expect their… — Alfred Kinsey
We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers. — Joseph Chilton Pearce
What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is… — Benjamin Cardozo
In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul. — Robert Breault
Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it. — Rene Dubos
In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I… — Michelangelo
The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart..... — H.G. Wells
He fished in his pocket for his keys and instead pulled out the last geode, gray and smooth, earth-shaped. He held it, warming in his… — Kim Edwards
Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal and rejuvenation within… — John Chancellor
317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is… — G. H. Hardy
Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid;… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart. — Blaise Pascal
When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an odd-shaped flint-there are… — Mary Midgley
For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the fine, small details… — Janine Benyus
There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be… — Arthur C. Clarke

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