"Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will."
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"We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth."
"The greatest form of genius is that which isn’t noticed."
"The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty."
"I have no room in my life for any form of negativity or nonacceptance."
"There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form."
"I began just writing poems and then fell in love with the form."
"Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing."
"All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form."
"The most refined form of sexual attractiveness - as well as the most refined form of sexual pleasure - consists in going against the grain of one's sex."
"Differentiation is in name and form only."
"The forms are evanescent; but the spirit, being in the Lord and of the Lord, is immortal and omnipresent."
"Everything that has form, everything that is the result of combination, is evolved out of this Akasha."
"In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life."
"Whatsoever has form must be the result of combinations of particles and requires something else behind it to move it."
"We have none of us seen a form which had not a beginning and will not have an end."
"The Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves."
"Whatever had form or shape must be limited, and could not be eternal."
"As the cause is, so the effect will be Cause is never different from effect, the effect is but the cause reproduced in another form."
"Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same."