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“The efforts of the majority to destroy every trace of heretical 'blasphemy' proved so successful that, until the discoveries at Nag Hammadi, nearly all our information concerning alternative forms of early Christianity came from the massive orthodox attacks upon them.”

Form Religion Effort Christianity Successful Information Discovery Majority Alternatives Orthodox Massive Blasphemy

Book:The Gnostic Gospels

Source: The Gnostic Gospels

“Why did the consensus of Christian churches not only accept these astonishing views but establish them as the only true form of Christian doctrine? . . . these religious debates - questions of the nature of God, or of Christ - simultaneously bear social and political implications that are crucial to the development of Christianity as an institutional religion. In simplest terms, ideas which bear implications contrary to that development come to be labeled as 'heresy'; ideas which implicitly support it become 'orthodox.'”

“The widespread distribution of private property ownership is the cornerstone of American liberty. Without it neither our free enterprise system nor our republican form of government could long endure.... The next Republican Administration will...not only protect the cherished human right of property ownership, but will also work to help millions of Americans - particularly those from disadvantaged groups - to share in the ownership of the wealth of their nation.”

“The widespread distribution of private property ownership is the cornerstone of American liberty. Without it, neither our free enterprise system nor our republican form of government could long endure.”

Long Wisdom Government Form Liberty Republican Property Endure Enterprise Ownership Distribution Forms Of Government Private Property Cornerstones Free Enterprise American Liberty Property Ownership

Author:Jeffrey H Reiman

“If nothing is more important to you than that you feel good, you can form a fantasy about someone who is in your life and they will begin to modify to meet your fantasy, because Law of Attraction is a very powerful thing.”

Ifs Feels Important Form Law Powerful Fantasy Attraction Feel Good Law Of Attraction Manifestation Very Powerful

Author:Esther Hicks

“Before you can live anything, in what you are calling physical manifestation - you have to have conjured it in vibrational form. You have to have imagined it before it can become a reality. Everything that you are living here in this physical body, you have imagined the essence of it before you are living it.”

Body Reality Form Calling Essence Manifestation Physical Body

Author:Esther Hicks

“Matter is the evolution of energy. First there is thought, then there is thought form, and then there is matter. Matter is only thought that has been thought upon by more.”

Firsts Has Beens Matter Form Energy Evolution Manifestation

Author:Esther Hicks

“Cheese. The adult form of milk.”

Form Food Adults Cooking Culinary Milk Cheese

Author:Richard Condon

“My son would walk to the refrigerator-freezer and fling both doors open and stand there until the hairs in his nose iced up. After surveying $200 worth of food in varying shapes and forms, he would declare loudly, 'There's nothing to eat!'”

Form Walks Doors Food Son Hair Shapes Cooking Noses Culinary My Son Fling Refrigerators Freezer

Author:Erma Bombeck

“The time will come when this luscious golden tomato, rich in nutrition, a delight to the eye, a joy to the palate whether fried, baked, broiled or even eaten raw will form the foundation of a great garden industry.”

Eye Form Joy Rich Food Industry Garden Foundation Cooking Delight Golden Culinary Nutrition Tomatoes Palate Great Garden

Author:Robert Johnson

“American films are the best films. This is a fact. Cinema is - along with Jazz - the great American art form. And cinema in a very real sense created the American identity that has been exported around the world.”

World Has Beens Art Real Facts Film Form Identity Jazz Around The World Cinema Great American American Film Best Film American Identity

Author:Ben Dreyfuss

“A lot of young black people in America, and even in Africa and Brazil, would say that they are telling their story, but most of the films are like application forms with the formulaic ideas of Hollywood.”

People Ideas Stories America Film Form Young Black Hollywood Application Black People Brazil

Author:Haile Gerima

“The built-in form is a window frame. You can use this genre [crime fiction] to go where you want to go, and explore what you want to explore. In some ways it gives you a lot of freedom because you have a framework readers are looking for.”

Way Want Giving Use Form Fiction Crime Reader Built Window What You Want Genre Framework Crime Fiction

Author:Michael Connelly

“No matter how much people want to pretend that they're embarrassed by it, that they don't watch it, everybody knows about it. It's truly, I believe, one of the only art forms that America has actually given to the world, besides jazz and comic books.”

People Knows World Want Believe Art Book Matter America Form Given I Believe Watches Jazz Comic Comic Book Embarrassed

Author:CM Punk

“Free-form games in which the player can make choices about what the game is going to be, become a kind of gaming equivalent of the narrative possibility.”

Kind Form Choices Games Player Possibility Narrative Gaming

Author:Salman Rushdie

“In terms of a comedy plan I don't really have a list of what I want accomplish. I'm just riding the wave! I think I will always come back to stand-up and comedy in all its forms. I just don't think it will ever be the one sole thing I do.”

Thinking Want Form Term Comedy Plans Wave Accomplish Lists Riding Sole Riding The Wave

Author:Doc Brown

“I think surfing and music are both places of release and self expression where there are no rules, and you can find a different form of freedom that you can't anywhere else.”

Thinking Different Self Form Expression Release Surfing Self Expression

Author:Jon Foreman

“I've always been fascinated with the strong emotional ties that music can have. A song can bring you back to a place or a season of life like no other art form can.”

Art Form Song Strong Emotional Seasons Ties Fascinated Seasons Of Life Strong Emotional

Author:Jon Foreman

“Pain in all its forms is also a message, a kind of distress signal to our hearts and minds. There are times when it's really important to tune into that message and just listen to it.”

Mind Heart Kind Important Pain Form Messages Tunes Distress Signals Heart And Mind Just Listen

Author:Karyn Kusama

“I can honestly say that everything I've ever listened to has influenced me or motivated me in one way, form or fashion.”

Way I Can Form Fashion Honestly One Way Motivated

Author:Brantley Gilbert

“When you are writing a spoken word poem, the tools you're working with are your voice, your body, how it's going to sound to someone when you're saying it out loud. Which is different from when you're writing it on the page. That toolbox becomes how does this look visually on the page, how does this read among pages, how is this in relation to poems that are before it or after it. I don't think one is better or more successful than the other. You've just gotta think about "what are the tools I'm using, and how are they most effective in this form?"”

Thinking Writing Looks Doe Different Body Form Sound Voice Successful Pages Tools Relation Your Body Loud Spoken Word Toolbox

Author:Phil Kay

“We have the ability to choose, we are God's higher form of creation, we surpass all other forms of life and we don't use the mental faculties we've been given. We don't even understand what we are capable of doing. School doesn't teach us anything about ourselves. So the more we learn about ourselves, the more we take control over our life.”

Use School Form Given Ability Teach Our Lives Creation Higher Capable Faculty Take Control Ability To Choose

Author:Bob Proctor

“Our culture is almost entirely prepared to not just help you create your false self, but to get very identified with it and attached to it. So, without some form of God experience, which teaches you who you are apart from that - we would say in the religious world, who you are "in" God, in the mind and heart of God - there's almost no way to get out of it.”

World Way Mind Heart Self Helping Form Culture Religious Teach Who You Are Prepared Heart And Mind

Author:Richard Rohr

“I just want to kind of tackle every kind of form that exists in the comedy world; whether it be stand-up or hidden camera or parody. Kind of slap it in a movie with hip-hop artists and actors, comedians and girls. I just want to do something fun.”

World Want Kind Form Artist Girl Actors Fun Comedy Cameras Hip Hop Hips Comedian Hops Slap Parody Hip Hop Artist

Author:Pauly Shore

“Depending on what you do and how you do what you do, I wouldn't recommend for everyone to allow themselves to be public online. I think it also in some way, shape or form allows you to answer questions that otherwise would be lingering and dictate your own path instead of having your path dictated by the media.”

Thinking Way Would Be Form Answers Path Media Shapes Online Lingering

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It's really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.”

Littles Ideas Jobs Form Musician Passing Passings Nurture Transmit Passing Through

Author:Keith Richards

“Not only is true love rare and true rebellion rare, real love is itself a radical form of rebellion - engagement, thinking, and being - and therefore happens in the context of a larger project of justice, liberation, and critical thinking.”

Thinking Real Happens Form Justice Love Is Projects Critical Radical Liberation Rebellion Engagement Real Love Critical Thinking

Author:Masha Tupitsyn

“You have to have an eye and a feeling for where things go. Writing visually, writing textually, writing sonically. Text is visual for me and images are textual. There is power in the way ideas are arranged, not just developed rhetorically. Form is everything.”

Way Writing Ideas Feelings Eye Form Visuals

Author:Masha Tupitsyn

“I think there are so many children being brought up in some form of violence, be it violence of poverty or sexism or racism or homophobia or transphobia. That violence takes a life to transform or overcome. I don't think people should be spending their lives dealing with that. I think people should be thriving, playing, creating, evolving.”

People Thinking Should Children Form Poverty Violence Creating Racism Overcoming Spending Evolve Sexism Homophobia

Author:Eve Ensler

“Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.”

Giving May Matter Government Form Choices Shapes Consistency Assured Forms Of Government

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and they are heard and seen.”

Needs Enough Form Heard Expression Hints

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“To perceive that form reveals the void, and to see that the void reveals form, is the secret for the overcoming of death. To the extent that one is unaware of space, one is unaware of one's own eternity — it's the same thing!”

Form Death Space Secret Overcoming Eternity Perceive Void

Book:What is Zen?

Source: What is Zen?

“Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.”

World Mind Art States America Form Culture Modern Hollywood Contribution State Of Mind

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“One never knows how much a family may grow; and when a hive is too full, and it is necessary to form a new swarm, each one thinks of carrying away his own honey.”

Thinking Knows May Form Grows Know How Honey Swarms Hives

Book:The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).

Source: The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).

“There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.”

Moving Form Strong Cases Knowing Particular Future Concern Indolence

Author:Alec Waugh

“There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body.”

Men World Humans Done Body Hands Form Humanity Heaven Lays Flesh Revelations Temples Reverence Human Body Bending

Book:Novalis and the poets of pessimism: with an English translation by James Thomson (

Source: Novalis and the poets of pessimism: with an English translation by James Thomson (

“Sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.”

Form Behinds Sorrow Solitude Faded

Book:The Poems of Thomas Gray. With Critical Notes, a Life of the Author, and an Essay on His Poetry, by the Rev. John Mitford

Source: The Poems of Thomas Gray. With Critical Notes, a Life of the Author, and an Essay on His Poetry, by the Rev. John Mitford

“the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.”

Form Poetry

Author:Muriel Rukeyser

“The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.”

Writing Self Done Form Order Process Poet Work Done

Author:Muriel Rukeyser

“The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.”

Form Simple Simplicity True Friend Good Love

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“And I saw darkness for weeks. It never dawned on me that I could come out of it, but you heal. Nature heals you, and you do come out of it. All of a sudden I saw a crack of light ... then all of a sudden I saw another crack of light. Then I saw forms in the light. And I recognized that there was no darkness, that in darkness there'll always be light.”

Light Form Healing Darkness Saws Week Heal Cracks Darkness To Light

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it.”

Way Art Use Form Culture Chance Danger Materials Highest Locals Imitating

Author:Miles Franklin

“The love of form is a love of endings.”

Form

Author:Louise Glück

“Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.”

Form Highest Organized Collecting Clutter

Book:On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

Source: On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

“Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others - I am one of them - abandon all thought and purpose to an uneasy vegetative states.”

People States Form Purpose Waiting Pieces Abandon Uneasy Needlework

Book:ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?

Source: ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?

“Fog rolled in like a form of sorrow. To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma. ... The sea was a memory bank into which everything fell and was lost. I dove in but came out empty-handed.”

Form Lost Memories Known Sea Sorrow Ocean Empty Wide Awake Fog Exile Dove Sensory Deprivation Coma Wide Awake Sensory Deprivation

Book:A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning

Source: A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning

“Turbulence, like many forms of trouble, cannot always be seen. We bounce so hard my arms sail helplessly above my head. In evolution, wing bones became arms and hands; perhaps I'm de-evolving.”

Hard Hands Form Trouble Arms Evolution Wings Bones Evolve Sail Bounce Turbulence

Book:Islands, the Universe, Home: Essays

Source: Islands, the Universe, Home: Essays

“I believe that any form of art is a species of exploration and transgression. ... Art by its nature is a transgressive act, and artists must accept being punished for it. The more original and unsettling their art, the more devastating the punishment.”

Believe Art Form Artist I Believe Accepting Art Is Originals Species Punishment Exploration Transgression

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out, and gives it more transparent forms. It is here that art, when it knows well its power and resources, engages in a struggle with nature in which it may have the advantage.”

Knows Giving Wells May Art Form Moral Struggle Resources Advantage Bases Foundation Covered Transparent True Beauty

Author:Victor Cousin

“a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.”

Form Culture Mass Diets Steady Deprivation Popular Culture Mass Culture

Book:For Keeps

Source: For Keeps

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