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“A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.”

Thinking Humans Long Important Beautiful Form Roles Long Time Ugly Tendencies Categories Long Time Ago Unimportant Lumps Interconnectedness

Author:Gary Larson

“Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.”

Humans Long Said Would Be Form Son Birth Ugly Queens Fairy Good Sense Once Upon A Time Common Good Uncommon Amiable Human Form

Book:Classic Fairy Tales: Fairy Stories Every Child Should Know

Source: Classic Fairy Tales: Fairy Stories Every Child Should Know

“What Sri Krishna is saying, is that it's a terrible mistake to believe that this life we lead is real. Obviously it's real, but it doesn't last very long in its realness. It's very ephemeral and to mistaken the forms of life, the shapes that life takes, for reality, is not wise.”

Believe Long Real Reality Lasts Form Mistake Wise Terrible Shapes This Life Hinduism Mistaken Krishna Ephemeral Realness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

“From the first time I held an iPhone, the space has evolved quickly, and people have shifted from reading content on their desktops to smartphones and iPads, even long-form stuff.”

People Firsts Long Form Reading Stuff Space First Time Iphone Ipads Smartphones Desktop

Author:Matt Mullenweg

“In the long run, outsourcing is another form of trade that benefits the U.S. economy by giving us cheaper ways to do things.”

Way Giving Long Running Form Economy Benefits Trade Long Runs Cheaper Outsourcing

Author:Janet Yellen

“The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.”

Long Form Force Term Violence Acceptance Long Term Strongest Dominant Consent Domination Maintenance

Author:Robert Frost

“As long as you wish to separate yourself from the immortal consciousness, you will suffer. You will experience the pain of the separation, the abridgment of infinite mind in finite form.”

Mind Long Pain Form Suffering Wish Consciousness Infinite Separation Immortal Finite

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you trust that the people making the show love the source material and the characters, and it's a different medium and there are different requirements for long-form storytelling that will hopefully carry over a number of seasons, then it's exciting.”

People Ifs Long Different Character Shows Form Numbers Materials Source Seasons Exciting Storytelling Mediums Hopefully Requirements

Author:Greg Bryk

“Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two inches long, is just as magnificent, just as symbolic of divine mysteries and melodies, as when embodied in the span of some cathedral roof.”

Long Two Eye Form Mystery Divine Paper Size Philosopher Architecture Melody Inches Roof Magnificent Curves Symbolic Grandeur Cathedrals

Book:Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time, with Other Papers

Source: Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time, with Other Papers

“Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasant than the face of men. Thy waves are old companions, I shall see A well remembered form in each old tree And hear a voice long loved in thy wild minstrelsy.”

Men Wells Looks Long Faces Form Voice My Own Tree Rivers Wave Remembered Pleasant Look Up Companion Bronx Old Trees

Book:The Culprit Fay: And Other Poems

Source: The Culprit Fay: And Other Poems

“Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.”

Long Form Literature

Author:Jim Harrison

“Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.”

Knows May Long Government Running Form Democracy Grace Prove Saving Efficient Long Runs Forms Of Government Saving Grace

Author:Bill Moyers

“Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent, and his gait was slow, His long thin hair was white as snow, But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye. And he sang every night as he went to bed, "Let us be happy down here below: The living should live, though the dead be dead." Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.”

Should Long Said Eye Happiness Form Night White Wonderful Hair Bed Snow His Eyes Dry Tall Every Night Long Ago Bent Slender Jolly Gait

Author:George Arnold

“Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.”

Should Long Facts Action Christian Form Cheeks Nevertheless Bribe Turn The Other Cheek

Author:Gary North

“But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.”

Long Form Strong Movement Victory These Days Sincere Sympathy Elude Elude Us Elude You

Author:Hjalmar Schacht

“When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then, if it's around long enough, a lot of people get used to it and it becomes assimilated into culture. So there's a morphic field both for the kind of art and for the appreciation of it.”

People Ifs Firsts Kind Long Art Enough Form Used Culture Fields First Time Appreciation Make Sense Modernism

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can be diminished- by giving thought not only to the aim but to the method of approach. Avoid a frontal attack on a long established position; instead, seek to turn it by flank movement, so that a more penetrable side is exposed to the thrust of truth. But, in any such indirect approach, take care not to diverge from the truth- for nothing is more fatal to its real advancement than to lapse into untruth.”

Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?

“By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the Gouls. By each spot the most unholy, by each nook most melancholy, there the traveller meets, aghast, sheeted memories of the Past. Shrouded forms that start and sigh, as they pass the wanderer by. White-robed forms of friends long given; In agony, to the Earth - and Heaven.”

Source: The best known works of Edgar Allan Poe: poems, tales, essays, criticisms

“The IRS wants you to use this form because it gets to keep most of your money. So unless you have pond silt for brains, you want the long form.”

Want Long Use Form Brain Humorous Ponds Irs

Author:Dave Barry

“In the distance, I see a frightful storm brewing in the form of un-tethered government debt. I choose the words -“frightful storm' - deliberately to avoid hyperbole. Unless we take steps to deal with it, the long-term fiscal situation of the federal government will be unimaginably more devastating to our economic prosperity than the subprime debacle and the recent debauching of credit markets that we are working right now so hard to correct.”

“People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.”

People Long Self Care Form Habit Don't Care

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative forces and can assert one's will over long periods of time in the form of legislation and customs.”

Men Mean Long Form Force Wish Creative Periods Morality Customs Principal Legislation Long Periods Of Time Morality And Religion

Book:The Will to Power

Source: The Will to Power

“No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love.”

Long Form Love Is Forms Of Love

Book:The Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird

Source: The Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird

“We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication which we have long since replaced by more elaborate forms. But it is at least presumable that they could still detect in our speech, at least when it is public and elaborate, the underlying tone values with which it began. Thus if we could take a gibbon ape to a college public lecture, he would not understand it, but he would "get a good deal of it." This is all the students get anyway.”

Ifs Long Stills Form Values Language Deals Study Special Students College Communication Speech Direct Communicate Tone Replaced Lectures Apes

Book:Leacock on Life

Source: Leacock on Life

“The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them, the software crisis will remain with us and will be considered an incurable disease. And you know what incurable diseases do: they invite the quacks and charlatans in, who in this case take the form of Software Engineering gurus.”

People Knows Long Done Form Cases Masters Disease Crisis Technique Reasoning Programming Software Invites Engineering Formal Guru Software Engineering Charlatans Quacks Incurable Disease

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before. I have not a word to say against contented people so long as they keep quiet.”

People Ifs Way Wells Long Play Age Form Spirit Audience Quiet Intelligent Active Backgrounds Portraits Respectable Neat

Book:The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Source: The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

“I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! However, if I must suffer, I will endeavour to suffer in silence. There is certainly a great defect in my mind my wayward heart creates its own misery Why I am made thus I cannot tell; and, till I can form some idea of the whole of my existence, I must be content to weep and dance like a child long for a toy, and be tired of it as soon as I get it.”

Ifs Mind Heart Children Long Made I Can Ideas Whole Form Suffering Existence Silence Strange Weakness Tired Misery Resolution Toys Defects Compounds Endeavour

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine, but expressive also, of the long lapse of mortal life, and accompanying vicissitudes that have passed within. Were these to be worthily recounted, they would form a narrative of no small interest and instruction, and possessing, moreover, a certain remarkable unity, which might almost seem the result of artistic arrangement.”

Source: Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography

“No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums of Paris . Beginning with the market - where, for lack of money, I bought only a piece of a long cucumber - the workman in his blue overall, the most ardent followers of Cubism , everything showed a definite feeling for proportion, clarity, an accurate sense of form, of a more painterly kind of painting, even in the canvases of second-rate artists.”

“Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding.”

Long Form Including Defined My Time Conception Breeding Eugenics Prevention Selective Free Love Selective Breeding

Book:The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic

Source: The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic

“A total work of art is only possible in the context of the whole of society. Everyone will be a necessary co-creator of a social architecture, and, so long as anyone cannot participate, the ideal form of democracy has not been reached. Whether people are artists, assemblers of machines or nurses, it is a matter of participating in the whole.”

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Author:Joseph Beuys