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“So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.”

Way Able Form Records Paper Computer Connections Structure Mediums

Author:Ted Nelson

“Every medium has its advantages and weaknesses and there are many things I can put down on paper that I might not be able to put into film or into a stage performance. In each form, one can communicate powerfully in different ways.”

Way I Can Different Might Able Film Form Stage Paper Weakness Advantage Performances Communicate Mediums Different Ways Stage Performance

Author:Lawrence Wright

“I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.”

Long Character Able Form Love Is Television Periods Format Long Periods Of Time

Author:Anson Mount

“When all of our idols are taken away, all our securities and defense mechanisms, we find out who we really are. We’re so little, so poor, so emptyand a shock to ourselves. But the Biblical God takes away our shame, and we are eventually able to present ourselves in an honest and humble form. Then we find out who we really are and who God is for usand it is more than enough. That is how an enslaved people became God’s people, Israel.”

People Littles Enough Able Form Poor Taken Honest Security Shame Israel Humble Defense Shock Idols Mechanism Biblical Who God Is Defense Mechanisms

Author:Aaron Lines

“The fact that order and creativity are complementary has been basic to man's cultural development; for he has to internalize order to be able to give external form to his creativity.”

Men Giving Has Beens Facts Able Form Order Creativity Development Complementary

Book:The Myth of the Machine: Technics and human development

Source: The Myth of the Machine: Technics and human development

“The ideal technique for successful fasting is the use of fresh, raw fruit and vegetable juices. On such a diet, the full spectrum of nutrients is supplied in an easily assimilated form, so the digestive tract is able to remain essentially at rest. It is only through the combined use of both cleansing processes, and a very good diet, that one will be able to reach her or his maximal level of physical health and an unclouded consciousness.”

“You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun. . . .”

Ideas Moments Able Form Speak Education Son Your Son

Book:The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

“Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion... Since men are able to form a true judgement as to the works of nature, how much more does it behoove us to admit that they are able to judge our faults.”

Men Doe Able Form Opinion Painting Judging Listening Ought Faults Refuse Judgement Painting A Picture

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give it an easy form, cheap, safe, and sure, as public amusements are.”

Giving Has Beens Able Form Easy Safe Love Life Refuge Amusement

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time to time it can face the receptive beholder in its whole embodied form.”

Whole Able Faces Form Quality Receptive Beholder

Book:I and Thou

Source: I and Thou

“One of the greatest forms of success is to be able to help others accomplish their own success.”

Inspirational Helping Able Form Accomplish Helping Others Inspirational Success

Author:Jon Jones

“Lots of TV is kind of becoming almost the new form for adult storytelling and cinema, but still with some independent films you still have those kind of jewels that people are able to make and it takes a lot of effort.”

People Kind Stills Able Film Form Effort Tvs Becoming Adults Independent Storytelling Cinema Jewels Independent Film

Author:Alicia Vikander

“Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.”

“Mapping out your own future in the form of images, phrases, and inspirational words that you are able to see every day will help reinforce your desires to attain what you set out to achieve.”

Helping Able Form Desire Achieve Phrases Mapping

Book:Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness

Source: Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness

“If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artist? Or would they begin a careful translation of new art forms into social navigation charts? I am curious to know what would happem if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties.”

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“The Christian religion seems to have fulfilled its great biological purpose, in so far as we are able to judge. It has led human thought to independence, and has lost its significance, therefore, to a yet undetermined extent.... It seems to me that we might still make use in some way of its form of thought, and especially of its great wisdom of life, which for two thousand years has proven to be particularly efficacious.”

“People are able to live with only half a heart, to live without real compassion, because they are able to use words that are only forms.”

People Heart Real Use Able Form Half Compassion

Book:Diversity and Depth in Fiction: Selected Critical Writings of Angus Wilson

Source: Diversity and Depth in Fiction: Selected Critical Writings of Angus Wilson

“Marvin Gaye said there's a song inside of me and I can't get it out. And I know it's in there, and I can feel that it's in there, and I can't get it out. There's so much that I want to say, and I haven't been able to figure out how to say it in my art. I can only say it in ham-fisted, clumsy, nonpoetic ways, and I'm trying to figure out how to talk about life and talk about love and talk about pain and trials and tribulation in an artistic form.”

Knows Way Want Feels Trying Art Said I Can Able Pain Form Song Havens Figures Trials Artistic Tribulation Clumsy Ham Trials And Tribulations Marvin

Author:Will Smith

“I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered. Certainly I have written enough of it to demonstrate that I harbor no disdain for literary journalism or just plain journalism, under whose sponsorship I have been able to express much that has fascinated me, or alarmed me, or amused me, or otherwise engaged my attention when I was not writing a book.”

Source: This Quiet Dust and Other Writings

“The question of crime is one of concern to everybody. But the position is that the security forces in our country for the last four decades did not concentrate on suppressing crime. Their main objective was to suppress, to crush political activity. And in the process, crime grew to unacceptable proportions. And criminals were able to form powerful syndicates, and they virtually took over the control of the life of the community in certain areas.”

“If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.”

People Ifs Art Would Be Able Form House Left Race Shapes Built Mentality Buttons

Author:Adolf Loos

“The conscious mind is a maelstrom of fleeting thoughts, images, sensations, feelings, conflicting desires, and doubts; barely able to confine its attention to a single clear objective for a microsecond before secondary thoughts begin to adulterate it and provoke yet further trains of mental discourse. If you do not believe this, then attempt to confine your conscious attention to the dot at the end of this sentence without involving yourself in any other form of thinking, including thinking about the dot.”

“Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself...As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called 'I'; as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness.”

“Where countries have been able to carry through on their reform commitments - as in Korea, Thailand and the Philippines - results are starting to come in the form of lower interest rates, new investment and increased growth.”

Has Beens Country Able Form Growth Interest Results Commitment Investment Rate Starting Reform Korea Philippines Interest Rate Thailand

Author:Lawrence Summers

“There will be no peace in Europe if the States rebuild themselves on the basis of national sovereignty, with its implications of prestige politics and economic protection... The countries of Europe are not strong enough individually to be able to guarantee prosperity and social development for their peoples. The States of Europe must therefore form a federation or a European entity that would make them into a common economic unit.”

“I made the first 'Blumen' picture after looking at Robert Mapplethorpe's Pictures book. I was struck by how much freedom Mapplethorpe was able to extract from his model's restraint-that in tying up and cropping his models, he appears to be able to work with people as forms. I never thought about my flowers as related to his (which I saw as annoyingly erotic); I thought of them in relationship to bondage. I wanted to make the flowers more aggressive and ironic and less docile and sensual.”

People Firsts Made Book Able Wanted Form Saws Flower Models Sensual Related Aggressive Ironic Restraint Bondage Erotic Picture Books Docile

Author:Collier Schorr

“There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able (1) to reason logically, (2) to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and (3) to understand the emotions--that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited.”

Source: The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle

“Mind is the creator of everything. You should therefore guide it to create only good. If you cling to a certain thought with dynamic will power, it finally assumes a tangible outward form. When you are able to employ your will always for constructive purposes, you become the controller of your destiny.”

Source: The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness

“Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty. There is a widespread feeling that, in this new, open-ended emergency, we may not be able to 'afford' our traditional freedoms.”

May Important Self Feelings Able Form Turns Successful Debate Traditional Censorship Emergencies Dissent Disloyalty Self Censorship

Book:At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

“There is no wrong suffering. There is imaginary, sham, feigned, simulated, pretended suffering. But the assertion that someone suffers for the right or wrong reason presupposes a divine, all-penetrating judgment able to distinguish historically obsolete forms of suffering from those in our time, instead of leaving this decision to the sufferers themselves.”

Reason Able Form Suffering Decision Divine Judgment Leaving Our Time Imaginary Assertion Obsolete Sufferers Wrong Reasons

Book:Suffering

Source: Suffering

“The world is always chaos, but we pretend that it's not because it makes us feel better. In doing so we're able to go through it in a specific manner and form: That's the tonal.”

World Feels Able Form Buddhism Chaos Feel Better

Author:Frederick Lenz