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• Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit.

  Polykarp Kusch

  Creative, Intellectual, Spirit

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• The idea of beauty does not descend into matter unless this is prepared as carefully as possible. This preparation consists of three things: arrangement, measure, and aspect or form.

  Nicolas Poussin

  Ideas, Preparation, Doe

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• If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.

  William Winwood Reade

  Mind, Atheism, Looks

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.394

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• Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical.... It reduces wisdom to impotence and secures the triumph of folly, ignorance, clap-trap, and demagogy.... Yet democracy is the only form of social order that is admissible, because it is the only one consistent with justice.

  Robert Briffault

  Ignorance, Government, Order

  Rational Evolution (The Making of Humanity) ch. 15 (1930) SeeWinston Churchill 34

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• The [peppered-moth] experiments show the effects of predation on the survival of the dark and of the normal forms of the Peppered Moth in a clean environment and in one polluted by smoke. The experiments beautifully demonstrate natural selection--or survival of the fittest--in action, but they do not show evolution in progress, for however the population may alter in their content of light, intermediate or dark forms, all the moths remain from beginning to end Biston Betularia.

  L. Harrison Matthews

  Dark, Light, Survival

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• Women, who are the prime victims of religion, and perhaps in some, stockholm syndrome effect, often form the most fervent advocates of the very thing that degrades them. I believe that in the end, it will be women who will turn this around. This should be the final stage of feminism. For a feminist to still believe in god is like a freed slave still living on the plantation.

  Matthew Chapman

  Believe, Feminist, Feminism

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• Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

  Martin Puryear

  Ideas, Rawness, Chance

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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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• It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

  Gavyn Davies

  Interesting, World, Digital

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• Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Army, Years, Colonialism

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through.

  Bill Budge

  Art, Thinking, Engineering

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• I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms.

  Erno Rubik

  Three, Passionate, Study

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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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• What sort of attractions do you think lured our coreligionists out of the ghetto and into the mainstream of European culture? Was it the wit of Molière, or the ingenious stage mechanisms of Pixérécourt? Or was it simply the opportunity to cast an eye, without shame, upon the living, unclad human form?

  Ben Katchor

  Ghetto, Eye, Opportunity

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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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• How the Idolatry of Christian Same-Sex Marriage Advocates Takes Two General Forms

  Joe Carter

  Christian, Sex, Two

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• Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.

  L Peter Deutsch

  Flattery, Implementation

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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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• What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?

  Albert Pinkham Ryder

  Clouds, Color, Storm

  Albert Pinkham Ryder, Whitney Museum of American Art, Lloyd Goodrich (1947). “Albert P. Ryder: centenary exhibition ; Oct. 18 to Nov. 30, 1947”

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• That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due.

  Charles Inglis

  Government, Preference, Saviour

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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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