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The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

The more devils we have within us, the more chance we have to form angels.

The more instances we examine, and the more care we employ, the more assurance shall we acquire, that the enumeration, which we form from the whole, is complete and entire.

The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, so much the more has vital godliness declined.

The more personal you are willing to be and the more intimate you are willing to be about the details of your own life, the more universal you are. Everybody needs to be understood. And out of that comes every form of love.

The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.

The more you know about something, the harder it becomes. You become more and more of a perfectionist. I think it's a curse... It's a form of illness!

The most beautiful form of compromise is forgiveness.

The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.

The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.

The most refined form of sexual attractiveness - as well as the most refined form of sexual pleasure - consists in going against the grain of one's sex.

The most sincere form of love is love for food

The most successful form of correction is when the "other" feels informed versus chastised.

The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense.

The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.

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

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

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 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 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 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 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.