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Because God loves us, he gives us lyrics to sing when our hearts can't form words.

Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.

Before God manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him... He began by forming an imperceptible point; that was His own thought. With this thought He then began to construct a mysterious and holy form... the Universe.

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

Be happy for no reason is the most authentic form of happiness

Behind all forms of beauty there is an infinite unity, and this unity, this intrinsic and eternal beauty, the artist is seeking to discern and to make others discern.

Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and what forms it is to take.

Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.

Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.

Being cross-genre, you can encounter an image and decide not only how to best express it but what form would express it best.

Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form.

Being cultured is the least expensive form of respectability.

Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced by anything else.

Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

Besides prostitution, magic is one of the oldest art forms that exist.

Better too much form than too little.

Beware of seriousness: it is a form of stupidity

Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better.

Big Money politicians do not have a new form of entitlement. They do not own our votes.

Bing was always hesitant to accept appreciation in any form.

Biography is the best form of history.

Blessing is not a technique we perform but a presence we embody. It is not an act we do to someone or something, but a relationship we form with them that enables us all to be embraced in the presence of an unobstructed world.

Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.

Blues teaches you to develop coherent solos, because the form you're playing over is so basic. You have to develop leads that go someplace.

Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.

Books form in us habits of thought which shall live forever with us.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Borrowers will default. Markets will collapse. Gold (the ultimate form of safe money) will skyrocket.

Both induction and deduction, reasoning from the particular and the general, and back again from the universal to the specific, form the essence to scientific thinking.

Boundless love always manages somehow to sparkle through your limited form.

Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart.

Building democracy as an imposition from abroad is a form of imperialism.

[Buckminster] Fuller said that everything at the time was basically a horse and buggy in the form of an automobile and it had that boxiness and basically aeronautics hadn't been invented.

Buildings are forms of performances.

[Burke] emphasized that the new forms of politics, which hope to organize society around the rational pursuit of liberty, equality, fraternity, or their modernist equivalents, are actually forms of militant irrationality.

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

But every age deserves its fashion and its forms, and no one can control what survives.

But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form.

But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible force.

… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

But there is yet another form of this hidden heresy, and, paradoxically, it can affect those who are proudest of their long-standing and unimpeachable orthodoxy; heresy in the form of indifference.

But what we know, we who are either observers of a business we once were in and loved, or are people within it now, our business as a whole, when it is not obsessed with the business of business, is eaten up with a form of cultural conservatism which is truly amazing. Indeed, more often than not it is eaten up with pure reactionary-ism.

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

Buying shoes is the highest form of shopping.

Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.

By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.

Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere change form.

Capital in money form has no citizenship. It is fungible, an asset capable of moving from place to place in a nanosecond.