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• Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue. (Ambrose Bierce) [patience/form/virtue]
• Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. (George Santayana) [music/form/feelings]
• A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes. (Mark Twain) [thing/form]
• Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult. (Laurence Olivier) [form]
• If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. (Rudyard Kipling) [form]
• The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth -century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen. (Carl Ally) [flower//form/faith]
• It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country. (Hannah Arendt) [form]
• The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. ( Aristotle) [form/inequality]
• My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make. (Thomas Arnold) [willpower/form/men]
• The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning. (Roland Barthes) [form/culture/repetition/books]
• Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future. (Jean Baudrillard) [imagination/imagination/form/reality]
• Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment. (Jean Baudrillard) [statistics/form/wish]
• Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated. (Jean Baudrillard) [form]
• The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. (Walter Benjamin) [art/form/enjoyment]
• No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight of the soul. (Ingrid Bergman) [form/art/consciousness/film]
• The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible. (Constantin Brancusi) [art/form/argument]
• In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. (Luis Bunuel) [form]
• Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny. (Edmund Burke) [form/tyranny]
• Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. (Italo Calvino) [cities/exchange/form/order]
• There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [condition/experience/form/women]
• Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [courage/desire/form]
• It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. (Winston Churchill) [democracy/form/government/time]
• What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace. (Joseph Conrad) [men/form/]
• Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. (Aleister Crowley) [child/fear/form]
• I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here. (Charles Dickens) [form]
• The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid. (Denis Diderot) [form/people/habit/matter]
• The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law. (Denis Diderot) [right/form/goodwill/right]
• If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind. (Albert Einstein) [take/form/look/human]
• The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite. But in the rarer sort, who presently see their own frustrated claim as one among a myriad, the inexorable sorrow takes the form of fellowship and makes the imagination tender. (George Eliot) [nature/sorrow/form/imagination]
• Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error. (George Eliot) [form]
• A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [form/face/pleasure]

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