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• If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.

  William Winwood Reade

  Mind, Atheism, Looks

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.394

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• Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical.... It reduces wisdom to impotence and secures the triumph of folly, ignorance, clap-trap, and demagogy.... Yet democracy is the only form of social order that is admissible, because it is the only one consistent with justice.

  Robert Briffault

  Ignorance, Government, Order

  Rational Evolution (The Making of Humanity) ch. 15 (1930) SeeWinston Churchill 34

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• Maximise the alternative forms in which a user might receive a service, and the alternative sources of supply.

  Don Chipp

  Alternatives, Might, Source

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• It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

  Gavyn Davies

  Interesting, World, Digital

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• Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Army, Years, Colonialism

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• What sort of attractions do you think lured our coreligionists out of the ghetto and into the mainstream of European culture? Was it the wit of Molière, or the ingenious stage mechanisms of Pixérécourt? Or was it simply the opportunity to cast an eye, without shame, upon the living, unclad human form?

  Ben Katchor

  Ghetto, Eye, Opportunity

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• When an object or purpose is clearly held in thought, its precipitation, in tangible and visible form, is merely a question of time. The vision always precedes, and itself determines the realization.

  Lilian Whiting

  Vision, Purpose, Realization

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• How the Idolatry of Christian Same-Sex Marriage Advocates Takes Two General Forms

  Joe Carter

  Christian, Sex, Two

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• With women, my wiring shorts out. My senses respond to the physical and the chemical, the scent and sheen of her. Evil could not possibly reside in the form of this angel. Or could it? Sure, I'm politically incorrect. I admit it; I confess; guilty as charged. I am, Your Honor, the lowest of the species, still wet from the swamp, webbed feet fossilized in the mud. I am a Man!

  Paul Levine

  Angel, Men, Feet

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• What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?

  Albert Pinkham Ryder

  Clouds, Color, Storm

  Albert Pinkham Ryder, Whitney Museum of American Art, Lloyd Goodrich (1947). “Albert P. Ryder: centenary exhibition ; Oct. 18 to Nov. 30, 1947”

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• That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due.

  Charles Inglis

  Government, Preference, Saviour

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• These short stories establish Sontag's originality . . . her unique vision, her success with experiments in the form . . . Sontag makes a wonderful stew of the past, the life caught in memory and imagination, serves it all up lavishly laced with silences, and provides us with a gourmand's series of short courses.

  Doris Grumbach

  Memories, Unique, Past

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• One can, then, conceive the production, by purely mineral means, of all natural hydrocarbons. The intervention of heat, of water, and of alkaline metals - lastly, the tendency of hydrocarbons to unite together to form the more condensed material - suffice to account for the formation of these curious compounds. Moreover, this formation will be continuous because the reactions which started it are renewed incessantly.

  Marcellin Berthelot

  Mean, Water, Together

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• The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

  William Saroyan

  Dream, Truth, Knowing

  William Saroyan, James H. Tashjian (1983). “My name is Saroyan”, Coward Mc Cann

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• For me, every sound has its own minute form - is composed of small flashing rhythms, shifting tones, has momentum, comes, vanishes, lives out its own structure.

  Annea Lockwood

  Music, Sound, Momentum

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• Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.

  William James

  Teaching, Learning, Association

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.103, Nuvision Pubns

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• No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is any event entirely predetermined or fated. Rather like the trickster, Raven, who first gave it its current form, the sensuous world is a spontaneous, playful and dangerous mystery in which we participate, an articulate and improvisational field of powers ever responsive to human actions and spoken words.

  David Abram

  Ravens, Events, World

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• PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Play, Stories, Violence

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.179, University of Georgia Press

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• I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.

  Caleb Cushing

  Slavery, Driven, Protest

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• Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space.

  Orson Pratt

  Intelligent, Space, Atoms

  Orson Pratt (2015). “The Kingdom of God, part 1”, p.18, Latter-day Strength

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• In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

  Alan Dundes

  Trying, Students, Genre

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• Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart.

  Aeschylus

  Heart, Wine, Mirrors

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• In an echo of earlier times, the climate change prophets have in recent years tried to silence counter views and suppress dissent. August members of the Royal Society, a body once noted for its cultivation of debate in science, are now leaders of the 'science is settled' camp: the only debate they consider to be legitimate is about choice among the different forms of the centralized action they believe is required to deal with the problems they foresee.

  Colin Robinson

  Believe, Echoes, Views

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• In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.

  Joanna Newsom

  School, Math, Rhyming

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.

  Francis Crick

  Double Standard, Combination, Ifs

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