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“Rocks crumble, make new forms, oceans move the continents, mountains rise up and down like ghosts yet all is natural, all is change.”

Moving Form Nature Change Natural Rocks Mountain Ocean Ghost Continents Up And Down

Book:The Awful Rowing Toward God

Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God

“From now on I will consider a language to be a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length and constructed out ofa finite set of elements. All natural languages in their spoken or written form are languages in this sense.”

Form Language Natural Written Elements Infinite Sentences Length Finite Linguistics

Book:Syntactic Structures

Source: Syntactic Structures

“Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the cosmos is, finally, intelligible. The Oriental, on the other hand, has accepted his existence within a universe that would appear to be meaningless, to the rational Western mind, and has lived with this meaninglessness. Hence the artistic form that seems natural to the Oriental is one that is just as formless or formal, as irrational, as life itself.”

Men Mind Reason Hands Seems Form Universe Natural Existence Western Accepted Rational Artistic Greek Cosmos Meaningless Irrational Formal Meaninglessness

Author:William Barrett

“The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen--he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus of overpopulous European countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtesy.”

Source: Roughing it in the Bush: Or, Life in Canada

“The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.”

Men Form Process Natural Mathematics Painful Torture Rebel Drills

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended.”

Kind Form Nature Natural Consciousness Color Delight Scent Suspended Intoxication Natural Things Hamper

Author:Mary Augusta Ward

“The spirit of a government must be that of the country. The form of a government must come from the makeup of the country. Government is nothing but the balance of the natural elements of a country.”

Country Government Form Spirit Natural Balance Elements Makeup Natural Elements

Author:Jose Marti

“Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.”

May Made Ideas Form Certain Order Natural Distance Size Statues

Author:Philibert Joseph Roux

“Because the free market system is so weak politically, the forms of capitalism that are experienced in many countries are very far from the ideal. They are a corrupted version, in which powerful interests prevent competition from playing its natural, healthy role.”

Country Form Interest Natural Powerful Roles Healthy Capitalism Ideals Weak Competition Versions Free Market

Book:Saving Capitalism From The Capitalism

Source: Saving Capitalism From The Capitalism

“Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human; for it must spring from love, just as there can be no reason without spirit.”

Humans Reason Form Life Is Spirit Natural Divine Spring Divinity No Reason

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“in order to confer their lost Nationality upon exiled Jews , the British with the help of the League of Nations began to rehabilitate the old Hebrew country, Palestine, with its long lost children. The Jews had maintained their race, religion, culture and language; and all they wanted was their natural territory to complete their Nationality. The reconstruction of the Hebrew Nation on Palestine is just an affirmation of the fact that Country, Race, Religion, Culture and Language must exist unequivocally together to form the Nation idea.”

“Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.”

Humans War Form Peace Natural Impossible Periods Chaos Available Thirst

Author:Frank Herbert

“We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and 'natural' character of the most monstrous inequalities.”

Knows States Character Form Natural Economy Democracy Capitalism Inequality Communism Inevitable Abandon Hypothesis Monstrous Market Economy Parliamentary Parliamentary Democracy

Author:Alain Badiou

“Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard, they begin their practice with a benefactor. This too is fine. The rule in loving kindness practice is to follow the way that most easily opens your heart.”

People Way Heart Hard Facts Form Natural Practice Kindness Fine Gratitude Loving Kindness Expressing Gratitude Benefactors Forms Of Love Natural Forms

Book:The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West

Source: The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West

“Transformation comes in a lot of different forms, but going natural really helped me love myself.”

Different Form Natural Transformation Love Myself

Author:Jillian Hervey