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• Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.

  Chris Ware

  Art, World, Transformation

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• Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.

  Ouida

  Names, Prison, Crime

  Ouida (1890*). “Puck. In Maremma”

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• All of the great patriots now engaged in edging and squirming their way toward the Presidency of the Republic run true to form. That is to say, they are all extremely wary, and all more or less palpable frauds. What they want, primarily, is the job; the necessary equipment of unescapable issues, immutable principles and soaring ideals can wait until it becomes more certain which way the mob will be whooping.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Jobs, Issues

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• Comic books are what novels used to be - an accessible, vernacular form with mass appeal - and if the highbrows are right, they're a form perfectly suited to our dumbed-down culture and collective attention deficit.

  Charles McGrath

  Book, Reading, Culture

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• Choice by choice, moment by moment, I build the necklace of my day, stringing together the choices that form artful living.

  Julia Cameron

  Choices, Together, Necklaces

  Julia Cameron (1999). “Transitions”, p.91, Penguin

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• The simplest kind of guidance (critique) comes every day, and many times a day in the form of discomfort.

  Barbara Brennan

  Criticism, Kind, Guidance

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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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• Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to pursue important work in spite of general indifference or hostility, and arrive at opinions which are opposed to prevalent errors.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Errors, Solitude

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Power: A New Social Analysis”, p.37, Routledge

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• When I today ask myself whence I got the moral courage, for it takes moral courage to make a move (or form a plan) running counter to all tradition, I think I may say in answer, that it was only my intense preoccupation with the problem of the blockade which helped me to do so.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Running, Moving, Thinking

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• The Birth-chart has to be understood as the archetype or seed-pattern of one's individual being - as the 'symbolic' form of one's individuality, and therefore also of one's destiny, for the two are identical.

  Dane Rudhyar

  Destiny, Two, Astrology

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• I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on.

  Billy Wilder

  Art, Looks, Television

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• Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, And cling to faith beyond the forms of faith; She reels not at the storm of warring words; She brightens at the clash of "Yes" and "No"; She sees the best that glimmers through the worst; She feels the sun is hid for the night; She spies the summer through the winter bud; She tastes the fruit before the blossom falls; She hears the lark within the songless egg; She finds the fountain where they wailed "Mirage!"

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Summer, Fall, Winter

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1376, Delphi Classics

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• Poverty is a form of hell caused by man's blindness to God's unlimited good for him. You should be prosperous, well supplied and have abundance of good because it is your divine heritage. Your creator wants you that way.

  Catherine Ponder

  Men, Heritage, Divinity

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• Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the "liberating" kind.

  Robert Fisk

  Two, Tanks, Kind

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• It's crucial to keep in mind that the hundreds of millions of dollars now spent on prescription drug advertisements are ultimately paid for by consumers in the form a higher drug prices.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Drug, Mind, Dollars

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• Enchantment is the purest form of sales

  Guy Kawasaki

  Enchantment, Best Interests At Heart

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• Meditation is not a technique to master;
  it is the highest form of prayer,
  a naked act of love and effortless surrender
  into the silent abyss beyond all knowing

  Adyashanti

  Prayer, Knowing, Meditation

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• THEATRE HAS THE POWER TO MOVE, INSPIRE, TRANSFORM AND EDUCATE IN WAYS THAT NO OTHER ART FORM CAN. THEATRE REFLECTS BOTH THE EXTRAORDINARY DIVERSITY OF CULTURES AND OUR SHARED HUMAN CONDITION, IN ALL ITS VULNERABILITY AND STRENGTH.

  Irina Bokova

  Art, Moving, Diversity

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• What could be heavier and more impenetrable than a rock, the densest of all forms? And yet some rocks undergo a change in their molecular structure, turn into crystals, and so become transparent to the light.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Rocks, Light, Crystals

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.18, Penguin

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• As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may move another to scoff, I conclude ... that everyone should be free to choose for himself the foundations of his creed, and that faith should be judged only by its fruits.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Moving, Men, Mind

  "Theological-Political Treatise" by Baruch Spinoza, (Preface), 1670.

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• An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

  Woodrow Wilson

  Democracy, Empires, Invisible

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.117, Lexington Books

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• I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection.

  John Galliano

  Book, Tourists, Culture

  "Girl Least Likely To: 30 years of fashion, fasting and Fleet Street". Book by Liz Jones, July 4, 2013.

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• Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's constant pressure, pushing towards pattern. A tendency in matter to evolve into ever more complex forms. It's a kind of pattern gravity, a holy greening power we call 'Viriditas' and it is the driving force in the cosmos. Life, you see.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Inward, Cosmos, Looks

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Green Mars”, p.19, Spectra

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• We now undertake that we cannot rest while millions of our people suffer the pain and indignity of poverty in all its forms.

  Nelson Mandela

  Pain, People, Suffering

  Nelson Mandela (2003). “Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches”, Jonathan Ball Publishers

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• History is that form which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life, which he thereby invests with a deeper reality.

  Oswald Spengler

  Reality, History, Imagination

  Oswald Spengler (1961). “Form and actuality”

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