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"Courage and confidence are practical necessities . . . courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true to truth, and confidence is the practical form of being true to one’s own consciousness."
"Life is not free from its forms."
"We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form."
"The only boundaries we have are in form. There are no obstacles in thought."
"Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational."
"When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel."
"How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!"
"Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect"
"Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse."
"I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form."
"As the author you know how you want it to appear on screen and it's always the content dictating the form."
"The graphic novel form really interests me and I like the freedom that format offers."
"But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible force."
"The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant."
"Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?"
"All the higher life forms scythed away, just like that. [ . . . ] Nothing but dust and fundamentalists."
"When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant."
"Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil."
"Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words."
"Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains."
