"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."
"Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time"
"It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all."
"Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams."
"The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but it is only in the highest form as a human being that it attains to freedom."
"Forgetfulness is a form of freedom."
"It is time to cease to argue about God , and instead to unite in the unmasking of contemporary forms of idolatry."
"Abstinence is the worst form of perversion."
"The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics."
"Puns are the highest form of literature."
"What nobody seems to understand is that love can only be one-sided, that no other love exists, that in any other form it is not love. If it involves less than total giving, it is not love. It is impotent; for the moment it is nothing."
"It's amazing how much data is out there. The question is how do we put it in a form that's usable?"
"If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another."
"The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has."
"One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis - the concept of form which is not so directional in time, not so much climactic form, but rather form which allows time, to stand still."
"When one has no form, one can be all forms."
"There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time."
"Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide."
"To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art."