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The only boundaries we have are in form. There are no obstacles in thought.

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.

The only justifications for belief have the form "justified for me".

The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

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

The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable.

The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.

The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will.

The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods.

The Pentagon banned the army from using Chinese-made berets. In a more veiled slap at the Chinese, the Pentagon also banned any alternative form of checkers.

The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.

The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.

The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.

The poem is a process, a way for me to discover questions, to ask them clearly or to discover the results of certain suppositions. Suppositions are a form of questioning.

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

The power within you which enables you to form a thought-picture is the starting point of all there is.

The practice of the Court forms the law of the Court.

The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.

The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present.

The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.

The proper form of economy must be observed in building houses for each and every class.

There are many different forms of life in the universe and human beings are unaware of most of them. Complex beings inhabit other dimensions. They can be very dangerous when encountered, unless, of course, you know how to handle or avoid them.

The rabbit is significant in that the handle on the original South Pointing Chariot was carved in the form of a rabbit. Because the handle extended out front it meant that wherever the rabbit went the chariot had to follow.

There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

There are many portions of economical doctrine which appear to me as scientific in form as they are consonant with facts.

There are more potential combinations of DNA [physical forms] than there are atoms in the universe.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on.

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.

There are no idle thoughts. All thinking produces form at some level.

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

There are two forms of justice. There is what is called retributive justice and there is restorative justice.

There are two forms of populism, left-wing populism and right-wing populism. Right-wing populism requires the denigration of an "Other." Left-wing populism tends to be about the haves and have-nots.

There are two sides to self-discovery, as in most things, an outer more popular side and an inner side. The popular side presents more of a simplified form.

There are very serious forms of, and reactions to, sibling victimization.

There cannot be any form unless it is the result of force and matter; and all combinations must dissolve.

There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.

The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.

There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.

There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when you find the particular form required by your creation.

There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.

There is a primacy of each individual object. And we'll see! That's the whole point of making sculpture, to present a question in a physical form to people.

There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.

There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.

There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence.

There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

There is no form of sinfulness to which you are addicted which Christ cannot remove.

There is no love without friendship. Passion alone does not form relationships of value.