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I look at books as being a form of activism. Sometimes they'll show us a side of the world that we might not have known about.
Everything is part of one web, one matrix of existence, beyond discussion. This is our true self in its undifferentiated form.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
The work really isn't about the specific content to me. As I'm putting things together, it's more about consistencies in form.
The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material - the material informs the form.
Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.
Someone has said that after age forty, each of us pretty much deserves the face he is wearing. He designed it form the inside.
As you die continually when living. So do you live continually when dead; if not in this body, then in a body of another form.
Any time a customer comes into contact with any aspect of a business, however remote, is an opportunity to form an impression.
If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.
I've always said that to win the Champions League, you need to reach a certain stage in good form and with good fitness levels.
The only form of ethical persuasion that exists is when the goals of the persuader are aligned with the goals of the persuadee.
You know what I like about the American form of government? They've worked things out so that you're never far from a 7-Eleven.
As is my way, when I start something that I've put off doing, I always start with the hardest form. So I started with Ashtanga.
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Kids are the ultimate form of motivation. They're watching. They're mimicking. They're an extension of you. So you have to win.
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
Mockery when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. It's the closest we'll ever come to true equality.
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
Check out that one at the end. He's taken the form of a footstool. Weird...but somehow I like his style." "That is a footstool.
...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.
Tis true, my form is something odd but blaming me, is blaming God, Could I create myself anew I would not fail in pleasing you.
The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free.
Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.
Crab meat is surprisingly sweet in its purest form, which is why it is often pepped up with zippy chilli and lifted with citrus.
The only consistent narrative we possess is one that we share with every other life-form: we are born, we live, and then we die.
[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.
In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.
I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody.
I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.
I think of myself as an amateur filmmaker, not a professional, in the sense that "amateur" means love of something, for the form.
God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
If I did not publish this autobiography [Les Mots] sooner and in its most radical form, it is because I considered it exaggerated.
With function, flow, and form as basis, design is evaluated as a process culminating in an entity which intensifies comprehension.
Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
When the music arrives in my mind, it gives me the direction and the form at the same time. It's integrated into the music itself.
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.
A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.
This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.
Stand-up is an amazing art form, I think, because it's all about you having complete control of the situation, but absolutely none.
Classical liberalism is the idea that individual freedom and limited government are the best way for humans to form a free society.
Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
Words are a form of personal expression. They differentiate us as well as fingerprints do. They reflect what kind of person we are.