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The total quantity of all the forces capable of work in the whole universe remains eternal and unchanged throughout all their changes. All change in nature amounts to this, that force can change its form and locality, without its quantity being changed. The universe possesses, once for all, a store of force which is not altered by any change of phenomena, can neither be increased nor diminished, and which maintains any change which takes place on it.

The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.

The truth has no form, you know. It's not like walking around trying to actually ask for favors and to be acknowledged, it is what it is.

the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.

The ultimate Form of devaluation is military confrontation and global war.

The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.

The variety of all things forms a pleasure.

The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road.

The Verse-Refrain form starts with a context before the topic that the Refrain is talking about happens.

The wave is the same thing as the water, the effect is the cause in another form

The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust.

The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.

The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form.

The whole universe is composed of name and form. Whatever we see is either a compound of name and form, or simply name with form which is a mental image.

The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.

The work really isn't about the specific content to me. As I'm putting things together, it's more about consistencies in form.

The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed form the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.

The worst form of badness is human goodness when human goodness becomes a substitute for the new birth.

The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.

The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

The worst question really comes from the attitude of the asker and it usually comes in the form of "What was your inspiration for the film?

They hadn’t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to pass on its genetic code, to thrive in a new form. They hadn’t anticipated its will to live.

They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.

They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," Valkyrie said. China glanced at her. "They've obviously never met me.

This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form)

This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of worship. But that does not mean that it is a wrong thing to do.

...this initiation ceremony, known as 'signing the Official Secrets Act', has no legal force; everyone is bound by the Act whether they sign the form or not.

Think of the many different relations of form and content. E.g., the many pairs of trousers and what's in them.

This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair.

This is the pure form of servitude: to exist as an instrument.

This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.

This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form.

Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.

This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.

Those we call saints rebelled against an outmoded and inadequate form of God on the basis of their new insights into divinity.

This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.

Those who attempt to evangelize the culture by imitating its forms must beware lest the culture evangelize them.

Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.

Those you love leave behind their shadows to walk, always, with you in the form of memories.

Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.

Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.

Thought is the most highly organized form of energy known to man.

Thought is the primary energy and vibration that emanated from God and is thus the creator of life, electrons, atoms, and all forms of energy.

Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.

Thoughts cannot form themselves in words so horrid As can express my guilt.

Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate from the order of things now: accordingly to have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years.

Through death you find yourself, because you no longer identify with form. You realize you are not the form with which you had identified ­ neither the physical nor the psychological form of "me". That form goes. It dissolves and who you are beyond form emerges through the opening where that form was. One could almost say that every form of life obscures God.