James Joyce
Novelist, Poet
"Absence, the highest form of presence."
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Albert Einstein
Physicist
"Condemnation before investigation is the highest form of ignorance."
Jefferson Davis
Politician, Military Leader
"The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form."
Charles Darwin
Naturalist, Geologist
"Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life"
Plato
Philosopher
"The worst form of injustice is pretended justice."
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"Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment."
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"The best form of saying is doing."
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"Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form."
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"I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others."
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"Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale."
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"The highest form of worship is to find the least among you and treat them like Jesus."
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"Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected."
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"While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery."
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"Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?"
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"Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other form of treatment and is beyond doubt safer and more economical."
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"Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them."
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"A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form."
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"The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any."
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"Freedom and independence form my character."
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"Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism."
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"We form ourselves within the vocabularies that we did not choose, and sometimes we have to reject those vocabularies, or actively develop new ones."
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"Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection."
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"Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time"
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"It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all."
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"Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams."
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