"The future is the shape of things to come."
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"Those who would take over the earth and shape it to their will, never, I notice succeed."
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"In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure"
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"Your faith shapes the kind of person that you are."
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"As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats."
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"To produce is to draw forth, to invent is to find, to shape is to discover."
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"Each of us has the potential to contribute... You have a great opportunity to make a new shape of the world."
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"The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty."
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"Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events are only called a pattern after the fact. Because otherwise we are nothing."
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"The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance."
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"Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top."
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"And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not."
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"What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble."
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"So full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical."
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"Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray."
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"Effective leaders have the ability to consistently move themselves and others to action because they understand the “invisible forces” that shape us"
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"Your thoughts really, truly shape everything in your life that you feel and experience."
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"It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces"
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"Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits set by laws of nature. The details of individual and species's lives are not mere frills, without power to shape the large-scale course of events, but particulars that can alter entire futures, profoundly and forever."
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"When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good shape."
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