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Edith Wharton Novelist, Short Story Writer

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"The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form."

Stories Form Short Story

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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist

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"There are more potential combinations of DNA [physical forms] than there are atoms in the universe."

Form Dna Atoms

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Carson McCullers Novelist

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"There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form."

Journey Form Outlines

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David Hume Philosopher, Historian

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"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."

Care Form Assurance

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David Simon Television Producer

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"In the wake of Katrina, what you're witnessing and what we are very careful to depict is a form of patriotism."

Form Careful Katrina

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Diana Vreeland Fashion Editor

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"Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world—and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame."

World Form Fame

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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist

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"The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for."

World Three Form

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Donald Miller Author

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"Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots."

Art Form Robots

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Al Gore Politician

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"There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form."

Ideas Form Impossible

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Cee Lo Green Musician

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"Twitter is a form of free speech, and I'm all for that. But if Cee Lo Green, a maverick of sorts, can't get on Twitter and say something outlandish or outrageous, then what is the whole point of Twitter at all?"

Form Speech Green

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Charlotte Bronte Novelist, Poet

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"Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter."

Form Luck Caprice

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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist

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"Don't swallow your moral code in tablet form."

Form Moral Tablets

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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist

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"Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices."

Love Is Form Prejudice

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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist

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"agony sometimes changes form but it never ceases for anybody."

Sometimes Form Agony

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Blake Mycoskie Entrepreneur

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"Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication."

Stories Communication Form

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Albert Einstein Physicist

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"This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form)"

Form Income Philosopher

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Aldous Huxley Novelist, Essayist

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"Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories."

Artist Form Significant

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Aldous Huxley Novelist, Essayist

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"I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism . . . Immanent religion is the only form of religion in which there is no conflict at all, that I can see, between science and religion."

Thinking Form Conflict

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Amartya Sen Economist, Philosopher

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"The themes that the anti-globalization protesters bring to the discussion are of extraordinary importance. However, the theses that they often bring to it, sometimes in the form of slogans, are often oversimple."

Sometimes Form Globalization

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist

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"Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen."

Prayer Form Quiet

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