"Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question."
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"Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love."
"What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life."
"[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres."
"I am opposed to all forms of control. I am for an absolute, laissez-faire, free, unregulated economy."
"This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed."
"My films are a form of psychoanalysis, except that it is I who am paid, which changes everything."
"Loss is imaginary. Nothing ever disappears in the universe; it only changes form."
"Our survival depends on our ability to form trusting relationships."
"War is the supreme form of prestige."
"Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form."
"Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech."
"What is this universe but name and form?"
"Reality is blocked by form and image."
"Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness.... Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile.... Not a single one but has at some time wept."
"Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena"
"The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk."
"Zero Mostel wasn't afraid of authority in any form, and that's the part that influenced me the most."
"I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
"New conditions of life will stimulate thought and give new forms to its expression."