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• The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Beauty, Taken, Past

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• But I don't think that it's a form of family that I would be comfortable in. I've found a way to this character and this family, but I still believe that a marriage is between two people and not seven or three.

  Jeanne Tripplehorn

  Believe, Character, Thinking

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• In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go.

  Michael Berryman

  Art, Honesty, Nice

  Interview with Vyeto Malesh, marsdust.net. January 22, 2017.

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• I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.

  Don Novello

  Book, Imagination, Littles

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• Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Life, Self, Names

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.

  John Lothrop Motley

  Rome, Careers, Century

  John Lothrop Motley (1858). “The rise of the Dutch Republic: a history in three volumes”, p.17

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• Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.

  Georg Simmel

  Relationship, Mind, Causes

  Georg Simmel (2008). “Englischsprachige Veröffentlichungen: 1893 - 1910”

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• Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

  Robert Sheckley

  Science, Healthy, Fiction

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• The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.

  Nassau William Senior

  Science, Nomenclature, Principles

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• Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.

  Ridley Scott

  Science, Two, Years

  "Exclusive Print Interview with Sir Ridley Scott for Gladiator". Female First Interview, www.femalefirst.co.uk. September 13, 2005.

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• I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Sports, Football, Thinking

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• It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

  Tobias Wolff

  Time, Past, People

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• There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

  Dan Simmons

  Trust, Art, Believe

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• The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for properly understanding the Bible in its context.

  Troy Perry

  Understanding, Important, Different

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• The variety of all things forms a pleasure.

  Euripides

  Pleasure, All Things, Variety

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• Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity, it's called Xbox 360.

  Don Mattrick

  Xbox, Playing Games, People

  "Gamers Without Internet Can Stick With Xbox 360, Says Microsoft" By Luke Reilly, www.ign.com. June 11, 2013.

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• Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.

  Aaron Swartz

  Inspirational, Funny, Life Changing

  "I Hate the News" by Aaron Swartz, www.aaronsw.com. October 20, 2006.

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• Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius." Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius - I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Guitar, Mad

  Rolling Stone Magazine, December 1970.

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• The main characteristic of play - whether of child or adult - is not it content but its mode. Play is an approach to action, not a form of activity.

  Jerome Bruner

  Children, Play, Adults

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• Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Pride, Sound, Abjection

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2541, Delphi Classics

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• The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live.

  William Graham Sumner

  Law, Hype, Age

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• The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment.

  Brock Yates

  Children, Moving, Icons

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• For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of government. Those are important principles here in Idaho, and they will form the basis of this administration.

  Butch Otter

  Responsibility, Idaho, Government

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• No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.

  Dr. An Wang

  Simple, Idaho, Matter

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• We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

  Dean Koontz

  True Evil, Ideas, Literature

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