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• The ultimate form of love for God and men is forgiveness.

  Marion D. Hanks

  Forgiveness, Men, God Love

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• Gossip is the worst form of judging.

  Nathan Eldon Tanner

  Gossip, Judging, Worst

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• It will be my earnest aim that The New York Times give the news, all the news, in concise and attractive form, in language that is permissible in good society, and give it as early if not earlier, than it can be learned through any other reliable medium; to give the news impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of party, sect, or interest involved; to make of the columns of The New York Times a forum for the consideration of all questions of public importance, and to that end to invite intelligent discussion from all shades of opinion.

  Adolph Ochs

  New York, Party, Intelligent

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• Fraud and deceit have been practiced since the beginning of history...Brass has been called gold; glass has been sold as diamonds; and poison has been hawked as excellent food. The story of fraud throughout the ages forms an ugly chapter of human history.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Honesty, Glasses, Age

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• Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Home, Idols, Clothes

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• One of the easiest forms of pretense to break down is the pretense of enthusiasm for exotic foods. Just bring on the exotic foods.

  Robert Benchley

  Justice, Exotic, Enthusiasm

  Robert Benchley (2016). “My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew”, p.303, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Cutting, Editing

  Willa Cather (2013). “Willa Cather On Writing”, p.67, Knopf

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• God is all that is. Since everything that exists is God, in one form or another, the only way that God can make a tree is by becoming the tree. Likewise, the way God made you was by becoming you.

  Tolly Burkan

  Tree, Religion, Way

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• Fundamentalism in most of its forms is the active creation of antibodies to some threatening [god] virus. As long as threatening religions or mutations [heresies] are present, fundamentalism will churn out antibodies to keep the population under control and prevent mutations from getting out of hand.

  Darrel Ray

  Hands, Long, Religion

  "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture". Book by Darrel Ray, 2009.

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• Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.

  Gwendoline Christie

  True Love, Love Is, Encounters

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The civil jury is the most effective form of sovereignty of the people. It defies the aggressions of time and man. During the reigns of Henry VIII (1509-1547) and Elizabeth I (1158-1603), the civil jury did in reality save the liberties of England.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Reality, Men, Law

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• Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which might disturb the orderly classifications of the taxonomist.

  David Lack

  Science, Garden, Museums

  David Lack (1947). “Darwin's Finches”, p.23, CUP Archive

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• At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

  Winston Churchill

  War, World, Sanity

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• What Grandfather Burton did for me was to write a sacred family record, the small plates of Burton, or, if you will, an inspirational family record. Much of what we now regard as scripture was not anything more or less than men writing of their own spiritual experiences for the benefit of their posterity. These scriptures are family records. Therefore, as a people we ought to write of our own lives and our own experiences to form a sacred record for our descendants. We must provide for them the same uplifting, faith-promoting strength that the ancient scriptures now give us.

  Theodore M. Burton

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Writing

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• Perhaps a supreme form of charity may be exhibited by one who withholds judgment of another's acts or conduct, remembering that there is only one who can look into the heart and know the intent-and know the honest desires found therein.

  H. Burke Peterson

  Heart, Judging, Desire

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• We too often forget that faith is a matter of questioning and struggle before it becomes one of certitude and peace. You have to doubt and reject everything else in order to believe firmly in Christ, and after you have begun to believe, your faith itself must be tested and purified. Christianity is not merely a set of forgone conclusions. Faith tends to be defeated by the burning presence of God in mystery, and seeks refuge from him, flying to comfortable social forms and safe convictions in which purification is no longer an inner battle but a matter of outward gesture.

  Thomas Merton

  Faith, Believe, Struggle

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• The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconcievable figure. The Divine Mind intuitively grasps that form immediately, as men do a triangle.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  God, Men, Mind

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.212, New Directions Publishing

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• It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.

  Simone Weil

  Grace, Void, Fill The Void

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• Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did not want to form a party, an interest group, a mass movement, but wanted to be what he was, the truth, which is related to the single individual. Therefore everyone who will genuinely serve the truth is by that very fact a martyr. To win a crowd is no art; for that only untruth is needed, nonsense, and a little knowledge of human passions. But no witness to the truth dares to get involved with the crowd.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Art, Passion, Winning

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• We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form of pride was the desire to be better than others. The new, democratic form is the desire not to have anyone better than yourself. It is just as spiritually deadly and does not even carry with it the false pleasure of gloating superiority.

  Peter Kreeft

  Pride, Opposites, Desire

  Peter Kreeft (1990). “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Heaven-- But Never Dreamed of Asking”, p.29, Ignatius Press

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• Betrayal, in all forms, is painful. It can make you go crazy. But we all have choices on how to deal with it. Do we just go away or stay?

  Anne Curtis

  Betrayal, Crazy, Choices

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• I like to hear the sound of form, and I like to hear the sound of it breaking.

  Frederick Seidel

  Sound

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• Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or ‘dematerialized’

  Lucy R. Lippard

  Art, Mean, Ideas

  Lucy R. Lippard (1973). “Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 ...”, p.7, Univ of California Press

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• The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

  Edith Wharton

  Balance, Desire, Sound

  Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman (2015). “The Decoration of Houses”, p.33, Courier Dover Publications

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• The only hope for healing is to offer a better form of ecstasy, to upgrade so the addict will give up the stupid one.

  Robert A. Johnson

  Giving Up, Stupid, Healing

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