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The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

The net effect of increasing scale, centralization of capital, vertical integration and diversification within the corporate form of enterprise has been to replace the 'invisible hand' of the market by the 'visible hand' of the managers.

The non-geometric biomorphic forms of Arp and Miro and Moore are definitely in the ascendant. The formal tradition of Gauguin, Fauvism and Expressionism will probably dominate for some time to come the tradition of Cezanne and Cubism.

The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.

The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.

The novel remains a very special form for me.

The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated.

The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form.

The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to it.

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table.

The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).

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 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 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 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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.