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• In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear into the greater experience of viewing the work. So that you forget you are looking at a painting, or a photograph.

  Bill Henson

  Art, Want, Painting

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• Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches up magnificently-and a good half of it is palpably useless.

  H. L. Mencken

  Beautiful, Half, Useless

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• The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Laughter, Humor, Ideas

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• Biography is the best form of history.

  Josh Billings

  Biographies

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• MY THEORY: the trouble is in the mind, for the body is only the house for the mind to dwell in . . . If your mind has been deceived by some invisible enemy into a belief, you have put it into the form of a disease, with or without your knowledge. By my theory or truth I come in contact with your enemy and restore you to health and happiness.

  Phineas Quimby

  House, Mind, Enemy

  Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (19??). “Christ Or Science: Chapter IV, the Quimby Manuscripts”

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• The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Writing, Expression, Literature

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.179, Cambridge University Press

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• Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves.

  Learned Hand

  Men, Matter, Tyranny

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Lying, Knowledge, Intelligent

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2008). “Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.275, Wildside Press LLC

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• Communication always changes society, and society was always organized around communication channels. Two hundred years ago it was mostly rivers. It was sea-lanes and mountain passes. The Internet is another form of communication and commerce. And society organizes around the channels.

  Vinod Khosla

  Communication, Years, Sea

  "How the Web Was Won". www.vanityfair.com. July 2008.

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• When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark Ages of commerce. Maybe one thousandth of this aerial insecticide actually prevents the infestation. The balance goes to the leaves, into the soil, into the water, into all forms of wildlife, into ourselves. What is good for the balance sheet is wasteful of resources and harmful to life.

  Paul Hawken

  Dark, Order, Water

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• Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge.

  Thomas Hood

  Cutting, Short Cuts

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• Play is kids' work in that it is a form of experiential learning that contributes directly to a person's ability to handle failure, to work in teams, and to take risks.

  Jill Vialet

  Team, Kids, Play

  "More Than Fun and Games - Play Matters" by Nancy Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2014.

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• I'm obsessed with the form of a toolbox. The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It's like Batman's utility belt.

  Adam Savage

  Ideas, Needs, Might

  "Inside Adam Savage's toolbox". www.wired.com. August 22, 2012.

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• Dissolving the name is awareness.
  Dissolving the form is meditation.
  The world is name and form.
  Bliss transcends name and form.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Names, Meditation, World

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (2014). “Celebrating Silence”, p.129, Arktos

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• In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Country, Queens, Government

  Lajos Kossuth (1851). “Authentic Life of ... Louis Kossuth ... With a full Report of his Speeches delivered in England ... To which is added his Address to the People of the United States of America”, p.77

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• You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied.

  Harry S. Truman

  Pages, Judgment, Newspapers

  Harry S. Truman (1960). “Mr. Citizen”

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• The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

  Mark Twain

  Beautiful, Lying, Perfection

  "The Stolen White Elephant: Etc". Book by Mark Twain, p. 220-221, 1882.

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• In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as originating and passing away, the Origin of Species introduced a mode of thinking that in the end was bound to transform the logic of knowledge, and hence the treatment of morals, politics, and religion.

  John Dewey

  Religious, Thinking, Ideas

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.39, Indiana University Press

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• Faith is not a weak form of belief or knowledge; it is not faith in this or that; faith is the conviction about the not yet proven, the knowledge of the real possibility, the awareness of pregnancy.

  Erich Fromm

  Faith, Real, Pregnancy

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• Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiving, develops a system of categories which determines the forms of awareness.

  Erich Fromm

  Practice, Feelings, Society

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.65, Open Road Media

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• Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sex, Mind, Looks

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.859, Wordsworth Editions

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• If you have form'd a circle to go into,
  Go into it yourself, and see how you would do.
  
  They said this mystery never shall cease:
  The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.

  William Blake

  War, Circles, Soldier

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.151, Wordsworth Editions

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• The medium is the message" because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Communication, Shapes, Association

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• Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Home, Car, Privacy

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• Government defines the physical aspects of man by means of The Printed Form, so that for every man in the flesh there is an exactly corresponding man on paper.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Mean, Men, Paper

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