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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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• Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets

  Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

  Transition, Transformation, Novel

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• People are complicated creatures. On the one hand, capable of great acts of charity, and on the other, capable of the most underhanded forms of betrayal. It's a constant battle that rages within all of us, between the better angels of our nature and the temptations of our inner demons. And sometimes, the only way to ward off the darkness is to shine the light of compassion.

  Mary Alice

  Betrayal, Angel, Compassion

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• My work comes from the experience of crowds, injustice, and aggression… I feel an affinity for art when it was made a form of existence, like when shamans worked in the territory between men and unknown powers… I try to bewitch the crowd.

  Magdalena Abakanowicz

  Art, Men, Trying

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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 failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Block, Ambition, Achievement

  Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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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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• 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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• 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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• Home is the heart of life Home is where we feel at ease, where we belong, where we can create surroundings that reflect our tastes and pleasures Making a home is a form of creativity open to everyone.

  Terence Conran

  Home, Heart, Creativity

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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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• Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Book, Writing

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• Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.

  T. S. Eliot

  Eye, Men, Color

  "The Hollow Men" l. 13 (1925)

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

  Arthur Keith

  War, Humanity, World

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.

  Philip Schaff

  Jesus, Redemption, Earth

  Philip Schaff (1871). “From the birth of Christ to the reign of Constantine, A.D. 1-311”, p.94

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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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• 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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• And just think, fellow Southrons, what kind of a Confederate nation we could have, if after independence, politicians abandoned equivocation and spoke honestly and firmly on all issues? If they were to do their duty to God, nation, and people, there would be virtually no need for any form of federal litigation.

  Charley Reese

  War, Thinking, Issues

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• The great mobility of the King forms one of the chief characteristics of all endgame strategy. In the middlegame the King is a mere 'super', in the endgame on the other hand - on of the 'principals'. We must therefore develop him, bring him nearer to the fighting line.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Kings, Fighting, Hands

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