"Waste in all its forms is to be abhorred... I deplore giving money to an institution that is careless in its expenditures."
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"The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form."
"Worry is a form of fear."
"Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms."
"Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color."
"Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily."
"[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession."
"Colouring does not depend on where the colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on form and outline, on where that is put."
"Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, cut it up, scramble it - it will reassemble in the same form."
"We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form."
"I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive."
"Wisdom is infused into every form."
"Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms."
"Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour."
"Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction."
"Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything."
"Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it."
"Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells."
"I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form."
"One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another."