"The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order ."
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"Games are the most elevated form of investigation."
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"Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation."
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"To have a human form is a joyful thing."
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"Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth."
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"Photography is a form of time travel."
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"Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms."
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"I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume."
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"Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting."
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"Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being."
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"Sarcasim is the lowest form of humor."
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"Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism."
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"Bad literature is a form of treason."
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"...once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding."
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"Every human being in the human form has limitations."
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"Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment."
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"For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity."
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"To you your father should be as a god; One that composed your beauties, yea, and one To whom you are but as a form in wax, By him imprinted, and within his power To leave the figure or disfigure it."
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"There is no one quite as popular in any form of football as the backup QB."
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"Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six."
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