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“I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.”

Thinking Wells Enough Individual Ability Interesting Attention Poet Depends Shapes Agree Impulse Visuals Bad Things

Author:James Laughlin

“I'm really creating abstract shapes and relationships that work together. They come together and give the illusion of reality, but they're really abstract shapes. If you look at individual shapes, they aren't the shape of anything, but together they give you the illusion of hills and sun and flowers.”

Ifs Giving Looks Reality Together Individual Sun Flower Shapes Creating Illusion Hills Abstract Working Together

Author:John Newman

“Education brings sustainability to all the development goals, and literacy is the foundation of all learning. It provides individuals with the skills to understand the world and shape it, to participate in democratic processes and have a voice, and also to strengthen their cultural identity.”

World Individual Process Goal Voice Identity Development Shapes Skills Foundation Democratic Sustainability Literacy Democratic Process Cultural Identity

Author:Irina Bokova

“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.”

Source: Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history

“If the Soul sees, after death , what passes on this earth , and watches over the welfare of those it loves, then must its greatest happiness consist in seeing the current of its beneficent influences widening out from age to age, as rivulets widen into rivers, and aiding to shape the destinies of individuals, families, States, the World; and its bitterest punishment, in seeing its evil influences causing mischief and misery , and cursing and afflicting men, long after the frame it dwelt in has become dust, and when both name and memory are forgotten.”

Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

“All "if" statements about the past are as dubious as prophecies of the future are. It seems fairly plausible that if Alexander or Ghengis Khan had never been born, some other individual would have filled his place and executed the design of the Hellenic or Mongolic expansion; but the Alexanders of philosophy and religion, of science and art, seem less expendable; their impact seems less determined by economic challenges and social pressures; and they seem to have a much wider range of possibilities to influence the direction, shape and texture of civilizations.”

“It is the nature of the mind that makes individuals kin, and the differences in the shape, form or manner of the material atoms out of whose intricate relationships that mind is built are altogether trivial.”

Mind Form Individual Differences Materials Shapes Built Atoms Intricate

Author:Isaac Asimov

“But art not only exploits the variety of appearances, it also affirms the validity of individual outlook and thereby admits a further dimension of variety. Since the shapes of art do not primarily bear witness to the objective nature of the things for which they stand, they can reflect individual interpretation and invention.”

Art Individual Bears Shapes Appearance Invention Objectives Witness Variety Dimensions Interpretation Outlook Exploits Validity

Book:Visual Thinking

Source: Visual Thinking

“Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest, moat earnest humor.”

Character Individual Thousand Shapes Diversity Earnest Superfluous Mirth Moats Proteus

Author:Edwin Percy Whipple

“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.”

Humans Helping Individual Growth Human Beings Shapes Hinder

Book:Inaugural Addresse, Delivered to the University of St. Andrews: Feb. 1st 1867

Source: Inaugural Addresse, Delivered to the University of St. Andrews: Feb. 1st 1867

“The world we live in is a co-creation, a manifestation of individual consciousness woven into a collective dream. How we are with each other as individuals, as groups, as nations and tribes, is what shapes that dream.”

World Dream Individual Nations Consciousness Groups Creation Shapes Manifestation Collectives Tribes Woven

Author:Oriah Dreamer

“The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities.”

Firsts Littles Moments Able Culture Individual Belief Born Community Birth Habit Activity Shapes Creatures Behavior Standards Patterns Customs Impossibility Accommodations

Author:Ruth Benedict

“Obama is not just a powerful speaker, but a thinker engaged with the ideas of his country and his age--this argument by historian James Kloppenberg should therefore fascinate anyone interested in American politics or how ideas shape public life. Tracing the influences of Obama's family, educational, and work experiences on his ideas, Reading Obama locates a unique individual in the crosscurrents of American democracy and continuing fights over American ideals.”