Form Quotes - Page 29

• When it appears that there is no choice, some form of illusion is operating.

  Deepak Chopra

  Choices, Illusion

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• All forms of books make a valuable contribution to education and the dissemination of culture and information. The diversity of books and editorial content is a source of enrichment that we must support through appropriate public policies and protect from uniformity.

  Irina Bokova

  Book, Diversity, Support

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• Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wise, Men, Fool

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• Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.

  Carl Jung

  Medicine, Enchantment

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.4, North Atlantic Books

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• We are literally children of the earth, and removed from her our spirits wither or run to various forms of insanity. Unless we can refresh ourselves at least by intermittent contact with nature, we grow awry.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Running, Children, Insanity

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• The facts are in, the science is beyond question. Sugar in all its forms is the root cause of our obesity epidemic and most of the chronic disease sucking the life out of our citizens and our economy - and, increasingly, the rest of the world. You name it, it’s caused by sugar: heart disease, cancer, dementia, type 2 diabetes, depression, and even acne, infertility and impotence.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Cancer, Heart, Epidemics

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• Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.

  John Dewey

  Spiritual, Government, Democracy

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (2008). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1882-1888. Early essays and Leibniz's new essays concerning the human understanding”, p.240, SIU Press

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• I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker... But it is not an art form, because screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

  Paul Schrader

  Art, Writing, Half

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• Form is emptiness, emptiness is form

  Gautama Buddha

  Emptiness

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• Art is a form of intelligence, it can be developed, it's linked to intuition and it's something that all humans have

  Alonzo King

  Art, Intuition, Humans

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• Design is a dreadful form of expression

  Philippe Starck

  Expression, Design

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• People - I mean couples - don't like to talk much about fighting. It's not attractive. No one likes to admit it or describe it or lay claim to it. We want our coupledoms to look... sanitized and pretty and worthy of admiration. And anger blasts are ugly. But, I think that is a crock. There is a kind of fighting that isn't ugly. There is a way for anger to come our as an energy you let loose and away. The trick is to give it a form, and not a human target. The trick is to transform rage.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Couple, Mean, Fighting

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• The seventh day of creation is the most eloquent and insightful as to the nature of God. From a literary perspective, the Sabbath forms the pinnacle of the story. Like the dramatic kiss of a soldier returning from war, this is the moment we’re not meant to miss. In choosing rest as the grand finale, God reveals himself as one driven by neither anxiety nor fear but one who finds gladness in both the work of creation and the creation of work.

  Margaret Feinberg

  War, Kissing, Perspective

  FaceBook post by Margaret Feinberg from Dec 02, 2012

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• Convinced that the republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind, my prayers & efforts shall be cordially distributed to the support of that we have so happily established. It is indeed an animating thought that, while we are securing the rights of ourselves & our posterity, we are pointing out the way to struggling nations who wish, like us, to emerge from their tyrannies also. Heaven help their struggles, and lead them, as it has done us, triumphantly thro' them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Prayer, War, Struggle

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.116, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I want you to notice nature, how geese are in flight and they form a V in a leadership role…The lead goose, when he gets tired of flapping his wings, he drops to the back and the next goose comes up front. Without stopping, without fussing, without whining. He becomes that next leader, he or she, that’s what we have to do.

  Judy Bonds

  Tired, Wings, Leader

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• I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

  Thornton Wilder

  Art, Theatre, Acting

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• In film, there are two ways of including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to create a film form which, in itself, has all the qualities of being human: tenderness, observation, fear, relaxation, the sense of stepping into the world and pulling back, expansion, contraction, changing, softening, tenderness of heart. The first is a form of theater and the latter is a form of poetry.

  Nathaniel Dorsky

  Heart, Two, Relaxation

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• The true liberation of eroticism lies in accepting the fact that there are a million facets to it, a million forms of eroticism, a million objects of it, situations, atmospheres, and variations. We have, first of all, to dispense with guilt concerning its expansion, then remain open to it's surprises, varied expressions, and mingle it with dreams, fantasies, and emotion for it to attain its highest potency.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Lying, Expression

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• Don’t tolerate any form of average. Don’t accept Dis-excellence. Don’t stand for mediocre. If you’re going to settle, then please settle for the absolute best.

  Robin Sharma

  Average, Excellence, Settling

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• Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

  Diane Paulus

  Art, Drama, Singing

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

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• Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.

  Diane Paulus

  Art, Believe, Roots

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

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• Resistance is a simple concept: power, unjust and immoral, is confronted and dismantled. The powerful are denied their right to hurt the less powerful. Domination is replaced by equity in a shift or substitution of institutions. That shift eventually forms new human relationships, both personally and across society.

  Lierre Keith

  Hurt, Powerful, Simple

  Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay, Lierre Keith (2011). “Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet”, p.208, Seven Stories Press

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• Unfortunatelymost westerners form their opinions of Africa based on the reporting and news in their own countries

  Louise Mushikiwabo

  Country, News, Opinion

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• Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a foreign original in a process of imitation, zigzagging between the foreign and receiving languages but in the last analysis cancelling the first in favor of the second.

  Lawrence Venuti

  Play, Favors, Lasts

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• Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the need for the court jester, the one soul allowed to tell the truth through laughter. It is, in many ways, the most powerful form of free speech because it is aimed at those in power, or those whose ideas would spread hate. It is the canary in the coalmine, a cultural thermometer, and it always has to push, push, push the boundaries of society to see how much it’s grown.

  Joe Randazzo

  Powerful, Laughter, Hate

  "Former 'Onion' editor: Freedom of speech cannot be killed" by Joe Randazzo, www.msnbc.com. January 7, 2015.

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