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• We had no irony when it came to girls, though. There was just no time to develop it. One moment they weren't there, not in any form that interested us, anyway, and the next you couldn't miss them; they were everywhere, all over the place. One moment you wanted to clonk them on the head for being your sister, or someone else's sister, and the next you wanted to....actually, we didn't know what we wanted next, but it was something. Almost overnight, all these sisters (there was no other kind of girl, not yet)had become interesting, disturbing, even.

  Nick Hornby

  Girl, Interesting, Missing

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.16, Penguin

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• Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world; its beloved history, and cherished memories, are vindicated; and its happy future fully assured, and rendered inconceivably grand.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Memories, Government

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.404, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need.

  Ross Macdonald

  Writing, Life And Death, Needs

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• It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification of life, self-awareness, expansion of our range of experiences, and enlargement of our sense of understanding and discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty , and understanding. Like literature generally, fiction is a form of discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty, and understanding. If it is all these things, the question of whether it is a legitimate use of time should not even arise.

  Leland Ryken

  Discovery, Self, Expression

  Leland Ryken (2003). “Realms of Gold: The Classics in Christian Perspective”, p.180, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• While it is tempting to believe that you are the victim of certain people or forces beyond your control, A Course in Miracles teaches you to recognize that you are not a victim. Through the grace of God, you are lifted above and beyond any forces-internal or external-that threaten to limit you. Knowing you're not a victim is a major form of personal empowerment.

  Marianne Williamson

  Believe, Knowing, People

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• Do the thing itself. Don’t pay much mind to critics or what anyone says about it. Just do it, in any form possible, and watch others doing it. Take it in viscerally, get it by osmosis. Don’t ever read your own reviews, certainly not the good ones.

  Holland Taylor

  Osmosis, Mind, Watches

  "Art Talk with Holland Taylor". Interview with Paulette Beete, www.arts.gov. March 5, 2012.

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• Children should be introduced right from the start to the potentialities of their environment, to the physical and psychological laws that govern the visual world, and to the supreme enjoyment that comes from participating in the creative process of giving form to one's living space.

  Walter Gropius

  Children, Law, Space

  Walter Gropius, Ise Gropius (1968). “Apollo in the democracy: the cultural obligation of the architect”

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• Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.

  Peyton Manning

  Flattery, Imitation

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• When design springs from an understanding of the people who are going to use a product, you begin to see forms that you would never have imagined.

  Niels Diffrient

  Spring, People, Design

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• By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion... .

  Samuel Chase

  Christian, Government, Separation Of Church And State

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• There is an aesthetic crisis in writing, which is this: how do we write emotionally of scenes involving computers? How do we make concrete, or at least reconstructable in the minds of our readers, the terrible, true passions that cross telephony lines? Right now my field must tackle describing a world where falling in love, going to war and filling out tax forms looks the same; it looks like typing.

  Quinn Norton

  Falling In Love, War, Passion

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• Forbearance is a form of generosity.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Generosity, Forbearance

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• The Colorado River did not form the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon was formed as the flood went down.

  Kent Hovind

  Colorado River, Rivers, Canyons

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• On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's history; and as there had been a beginning of life upon it, so, under the influence of other conditions, there would be an end: man, no more significant than other forms of life, had come not as the climax of creation but as a physical reaction to the environment.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Stars, Men, Space

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• There's a reason why bullying takes such a strong form online. People don't have to push back as much as they would in real life.

  Bridgit Mendler

  Bullying, Strong, Real

  "Ariana, Bridgit, and Kat Delete Digital Drama". www.seventeen.com. February 26, 2013.

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• The strategic stimulus to economic development in Schumpeter's analysis is innovation, defined as the commercial or industrial application of something new---a new product, process or method of production, a new market or source of supply, a new form of commercial, business or financial organization.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Organization, Innovation, Analysis

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2011). “The Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle”, p.19, Transaction Publishers

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• Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Party, Believe, Government

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• I'm realistic about my age and realistic about the fact that there's an awful lot less in front of me than there is behind me. I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

  Roger Daltrey

  Art, Live Life, Age

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• Every single time I step into the studio, I say, 'Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?' I suppose there's a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship.

  Ben Harper

  Self, Loathing, Steps

  "Ben Harper: Me, Myself And I". Interview with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. May 14, 2011.

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• Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!

  Michelle Shocked

  Punk, Folks, Folk Music

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• If you look on the history of art you observe how the most popular forms trample the rest. The abstract expressionists destroyed figurative work for more than 30 years.

  Mark Edward

  Art, Years, Looks

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• I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.

  Cornel West

  Century, Tribalism, Idolatry

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• In this era of tightening world food supplies, the ability to grow food is fast becoming a new form of geopolitical leverage, and countries are scrambling to secure their own parochial interests at the expense of the common good.

  Lester R. Brown

  Land, Oil, Gold

  "The New Geopolitics of Food". foreignpolicy.com. April 25, 2011.

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• The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and space, pattern and texture, motion and mood, everything except composition.

  Andreas Feininger

  Light, Space, Texture

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• There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Art, Children, Book

  Brian K. Vaughan (2014). “Saga, Vol. 3”, p.50, Image Comics

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