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"The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with."
"We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed."
"Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape."
"If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them."
"But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time."
"It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip."
"The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil."
"The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm."
"Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education."
"Whence proceeds this weight we lay On what detracting people say? Their utmost malice cannot make Your head, or tooth, or finger ache; Nor spoil your shapes, distort your face, Or put one feature out of place."
"An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes."
"...yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From out dark spirits."
"In the 80s I started running, staying in shape."
"To be a striker you need to be in good shape."
"Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder."
"Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape as anchors in tattoos."
"Your brain does not manufacture thoughts. Your thoughts shape neural networks."
"A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape."
"Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals."