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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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• I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms.

  Erno Rubik

  Three, Passionate, Study

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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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• The military budget is simply an enormous pork barrel of special privilege, the privileges taking the form of windfall profits, of no-risk profits and, most importantly, of enormous outlays of capital supplied by the Pentagon to arms contractors.

  Walter Karp

  Military, Risk, Special

  Walter Karp (1973). “Indispensable enemies: the politics of misrule in America”

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• The artist should fear to become the slave of detail. He should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?

  Albert Pinkham Ryder

  Artist, Clouds, Color

  Quoted in Goodrich Albert Pinkham Ryder (1959).

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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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• Laissez-faire capitalism, or anarchocapitalism, is simply the economic form of the libertarian ethic. Laissez-faire capitalism encompasses the notion that men should exchange goods and services, without regulation, solely on the basis of value for value. It recognizes charity and communal enterprises as voluntary versions of this same ethic. Such a system would be straight barter, except for the widely felt need for a division of labor in which men, voluntarily, accept value tokens such as cash and credit. Economically, this system is anarchy, and proudly so.

  Karl Hess

  Men, Division Of Labor, Credit

  "The Death of Politics". Playboy Magazine, March 1969.

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• We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.

  James Alexander Thom

  Past, Clay, Stories

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• Religious pluralism is neither mere coexistence nor forced consensus. It is a form of proactive cooperation that affirms the identity of the constituent communities while emphasizing that the well-being of each and all depends on the health of the whole. It is the belief that the common good is best served when each community has a chance to make its unique contribution.

  Eboo Patel

  Religious, Unique, Pluralism Is

  "Where Islam and America Meet". "30 Good Minutes", www.30goodminutes.org. March 11, 2007.

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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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• His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.

  John Milton

  Excess, Brightness, Ruins

  John Milton, John Richardson Major (1853). “Milton's Paradise Lost, with notes, critical and explanatory, original and selected, by J. R. Major”, p.42

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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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• What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms?

  Mark Twain

  Real, Ideas, Essentials

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.276, Univ of California Press

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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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• The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Law, Conservative

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• The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same longing and bliss.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sex, Pain, Lying

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• Do you wish to learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor one whose effects are more lasting. My education came from books, and they have been my companions by many campfires, in bunkhouses, ships' forecastles, in hotels and on planes. No matter where you find me, I am never far from a book.

  Louis L'Amour

  Book, Learning, Wish

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• Attaching significance to invariants is an effort to recognize what, because of its form or colour or meaning or otherwise, is important or significant in what is only trivial or ephemeral. A simple instance of failing in this is provided by the poll-man at Cambridge, who learned perfectly how to factorize a^2 - b^2 but was floored because the examiner unkindly asked for the factors of p^2 - q^2.

  Herbert Turnbull

  Learning, Math, Simple

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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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• I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

  Anne Stevenson

  Memorable, Ideas, Giving

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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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• A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame. Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Dream, Wall, Eye

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, p.127, Lulu.com

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