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“The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the last century a strain of Islamist thinking has developed which, like other totalitarianisms, such as Nazism and Communism, offers its followers a form of redemption through violence.”

“The inspiration for my work comes from areas spanning the stark regions of Newfoundland to the lush and fertile valleys of the South. The landscapes offer me form; the people I've met in these places give them color.”

People Giving Inspiration Form Color Mets Offers Areas South Landscape Regions Valleys Starks Fertile Lush

Author:Peter Sculthorpe

“At present, when the prevailing forms of society have become hindrances to the free expression of human powers, it is precisely the abstract branches of science, mathematics and theoretical physics, which ... offer a less distorted form of knowledge than other branches of science which are interwoven with the pattern of daily life, and the practicality of which seemingly testifies to their realistic character.”

Source: Critical Theory: Selected Essays

“Although the formulations of science now offer the most advanced knowledge of nature, men continue to use obsolete forms of thought long discarded by scientific theory. In so far as these obsolete forms are superfluous for science, the fact that they persist violated the principle of the economy of thought, that characteristic trait of the bourgeois temper.”

Men Long Facts Use Form Principles Economy Theory Offers Characteristics Temper Traits Persist Bourgeois Obsolete Superfluous Discarded Scientific Theory

Author:Max Horkheimer

“All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but let themselves be led by ideologies and ways of thinking that block life, that do not respect life, because they are dictated by selfishness, self-interest, profit, power and pleasure and not by love. ... As a result, the Living God is replaced by fleeting human idols, which offer the intoxication of a flash of freedom, but in the end bring new forms of slavery and death.”

“The highest form of praise you can offer to yourself, to God and to the world is to spend time each day expressing gratitude. It says to God that you are aware and appreciative of grace. It says to life that you are acknowledging its awesome presence in you. It says to yourself that you are worth the time it takes to be healed. Time spent in silence, contemplation and gratitude is time spent in devotion to a higher calling and a more loving state of being.”

Source: Until Today!: Daily Devotions for Spiritual Growth and Peace of Mind

“it is only on posters and in advertisement pages that Americans have those chubby cheeks, expanding smiles, smooth looks, and faces flushed with well-being. In fact, almost all are at odds with themselves; drink offers a remedy for this inner malady of which boredom is the most usual sign: as drinking is accepted by society, it does not appear as a sign of their [Americans'] inability to adapt themselves; it is rather the adapted form of inadaptability.”

“The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.”

Giving May Art Form Purpose Given Pleasure Offers Art Is Take Time Sensibility Purpose Of Art

Author:Susan Sontag

“Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know, is brought into play, and as the reproduction in finer form, of all our havings.”

Knows Play Lasts Form Results Wise Flower Civilization Offers Conversation Accounts Cups Repentance Reproduction

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself, as well as from others, than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture? ... I do not mean to imply that the evil are anything other than a small minority among the religious or that the religious motives of most people are in any way spurious. I mean only that evil people tend to gravitate toward piety for the disguise and concealment it can offer them.”

“There is one central characteristic of anarchism on the matter of means, and that central principle is a principle of direct action - of not going through the forms that the society offers you, of representative government, of voting, of legislation, but directly taking power.”

Mean Matter Government Action Form Principles Offers Direct Characteristics Voting Representatives Legislation Anarchism Direct Action Representative Government

Author:Howard Zinn

“[The Utopia of Rules] should offer a challenge to us all. Should we just accept this bureaucracy as inevitable? Or is there a way to get rid of all those hours spent listening to bad call-centre music? Do policemen, academics, teachers and doctors really need to spend half their time filling in forms? Or can we imagine another world?”

World Way Needs Should Form Hours Challenges Half Accepting Teacher Imagine Listening Offers Doctors Inevitable Centre Bureaucracy Filling Utopia Policemen Another World Filling In

Author:Gillian Tett

“It is a conquest when we can lift ourselves above the annoyances of circumstances over which we have no control; but it is a greater victory when we can make those circumstances our helpers,--when we can appreciate the good there is in them. It has often seemed to me as if Life stood beside me, looking me in the face, and saying, "Child, you must learn to like me in the form in which you see me, before I can offer myself to you in any other aspect.”

Ifs Life Children I Can Faces Form Greater Victory Circumstances Offers Aspect Appreciate Like Me Lifts Hardship Conquest Annoyance Helpers

Book:A New England girlhood

Source: A New England girlhood

“Hereditary monarchy offers numerous advantages for America. It is the only form of government able to unify a heterogeneous people. Thanks to centuries of dynastic marriage, the family tree of every royal house is an ethnic grab bag with something for everybody. We need this badly; America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home. We can't go on much longer depending upon disasters like Pearl Harbor and the Iranian hostage-taking to "bring us together.”

Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

“Television thus illustrates the mixed blessings of technological change in American society. It is a new medium, promising extraordinary benefits: great educational potential, a broadening of experience, enrichment of daily life, entertainment for all. But it teaches children the uses of violence, offers material consumption as the answer to life's problems, sells harmful products, habituates viewers to constant stimulation, and undermines family interaction and other forms of learning such as play and reading.”

“Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.”

Mind Firsts Made Ideas Might Form Study Offers Finished Spontaneity

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Computer and video games represent one of the most important new media developments of this generation. Unlike many other forms of entertainment they offer players the opportunity to explore, be creative, learn through interaction and express themselves to others. It is vitally important that we protect and nurture this new art form so that it can reach its full potential. Like most new forms of artistic expression that have come before (music, novels, movies), the primary critics of video games are the people that do not play them.”

“Once we begin to flee the things that threaten and burden us, there is no end to fleeing. God's solution is surprising. He offers rest. But it's a unique form of rest. It's to rest in him in the midst of our threats and our burdens. It's discovering, as David did in seasons of distress, that God is our rock and refuge right in the thick of our situation.”

Ends Form Situation Rocks Offers Unique Solutions Seasons Threat Burden Midst Surprising Thick Discovering Refuge Distress Fleeing

Author:Mark Buchanan

“I didn't offer transparency. I provided one quarterly report in letter form. That was all you got. I basically demanded that if you're going to invest in my fund you need to accept my terms. The terms not being super highs, but just, I'm not going to cater to you.”

Ifs Needs Form Term Accepting Offers Letters Reports Fund Transparency

Author:Michael Burry

“Often in the morning I will sit in a favorite chair in my study with a cup of coffee, with classical music playing, not trying to form a prayer with words but waiting, listening, until perhaps I sense the Spirit bringing to the surface a word from God. Then I offer just a simple 'Thank you.'”

Trying Form Spirit Waiting Prayer Simple Morning Study Listening Offers Surface Coffee Cups Chairs Classical Music Coffee Cup

Author:Leighton Ford

“As I have mentioned before, we cannot make the same sort of money out of permanent ownership of controlled businesses that can be made from buying and reselling such businesses, or from skilled investment in marketable securities. Nevertheless, they offer a pleasant long term form of activity (when conducted in conjunction with high grade, able people) at satisfactory rates of return.”

People Long Made Able Form Term Security Return Offers Activity Investment Rate Permanent Long Term Pleasant Buying Grades Controlled Ownership Nevertheless Conjunctions

Author:Warren Buffett

“Most of my formal choices are a combination of everything I learned about form - semiotics, linguistics, and the history of style experimentations tethered to literary movements (formalism, deconstruction, modernism, and postmodernism), and the basic principal of breaking every rule I ever learned from a patriarchal writing tradition that never included my body or experience, and thus has nothing to offer me in terms of representation.”

Writing Body Form Choices Term Style Movement Offers Tradition Combination Principal Representation Formal Modernism Experimentation Linguistics Postmodernism Deconstruction Semiotics

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“The greatest thing about form and convention is that it saves you from having to reinvent the wheel. Now, whether you mount the wheel to a horse carriage or a Formula One racing car, make it plain or give it spinning rims, those are all craft decisions. But the fact of the wheel remains: it will turn if you set it down. That's what I mean about the beauty of the gifts genre can offer.”

Ifs Giving Mean Facts Form Turns Decision Car Offers Horse Remains Crafts Genre Wheels Formulas Racing Conventions Spinning Carriages Race Car Rims Formula One

Author:Chris Abani

“If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a documentary as you can get in a narrative form.”

Ifs Feels Form Ability Tvs Offers Narrative Filmmaker Makers Documentaries

Author:Mark Duplass

“Maybe there's a sense that technology isn't necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically alienated world - a world where desires and feelings that normally are trapped inside your mind are made real in the form of magic.”

World Mind Made Real Feelings Problem Form Desire Answers Technology Fantasy Magic Reader Offers Trapped

Author:Lev Grossman

“Bridges - a master of subtle brilliance - plays the hell out of it. Not by showing off, but by going bone-deep into a character who only thinks he's running on empty. Crazy Heart may finally win him the Oscar that's unfairly eluded him and it offers the pleasure of watching a great actor at the peak of his form.”

Thinking Heart May Play Character Running Form Actors Winning Pleasure Hell Crazy Masters Offers Empty Bones Bridges Subtle Oscars Brilliance Showing Off Great Actors

Author:Peter Travers

“There are so many forms of love. Spending time with friends, love stories. I enjoy showing my love by baking a cake for somebody and writing his or her name on it, and seeing his or her reaction. I love to offer flowers too!”

Writing Stories Form Names Enjoy Seeing Flower Offers Spending Reactions Love Story Cake Baking Spending Time Friend Love Forms Of Love Times With Friends Baking A Cake

Author:Pom Klementieff

“The graphic novel form really interests me and I like the freedom that format offers.”

Form Interest Novel Offers Graphic Format Graphic Novels

Author:Walter Hill

“Voltaire's novel [Candid] offers us parallel universes, the possibility of entering into alternative worlds existing side by side, and this is something quite modern. Nested narratives and parallel universes are popular at the moment in many different art forms.”

World Art Different Moments Form Universe Sides Novel Modern Possibility Offers Alternatives Narrative Entering Parallels Candid Parallel Universe

Author:Mark Ravenhill

“I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.”

Knows Art Two Hands Able Form Quality Movement Masters Offers Draws Like Me Mediums Timing Cartoon Leonardo

Author:John Lasseter

“Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.”

Men Made Body Form Values Given Decision Power Special Expression Offers

Book:Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt

Source: Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt

“When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.”

Ifs Soul Form Hurt Creativity Drug Offers Your Soul Fooling Around

Author:Paul Stanley

“If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.”

Ifs Form Hate Dies Compassion Mets Offers Universal Awakening God Love Sentiments Disposition Cleaning Universal Love

Author:Radhanath Swami

“I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.”

“Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time.”

Ifs Inspirational Art Made Book Motivational Faces Form Winning Fantasy Offers Rounds Rings League Boxing Fifteen

Book:The Polysyllabic Spree

Source: The Polysyllabic Spree

“-The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other but to be with each other. -The Hopis consider running a form of prayer; they offer every step as a sacrifice to a loved one, and in return ask the Great Spirit to match their strength with some of his own.”

Reason Running Form Spirit Asks Prayer Race Steps Sacrifice Return Offers Beats Loved Ones Every Step Great Spirit

Author:Christopher McDougall

“The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in its simplest aspect, in its most perfect symmetry, in its most entire harmony with our make-up. Thus the ensemble that it offers us is always complete, but restricted like ourselves. What we call the ugly, on the contrary, is a detail of a great whole which eludes us, and which is in harmony, not with man but with all creation. That is why it constantly presents itself to us in new but incomplete aspects.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)

“Love is a weapon of Light, and it has the power to eradicate all forms of darkness. That is the key. When we offer love even to our enemies, we destroy their darkness and hatred.”

Light Form Peace Love Is Enemy Darkness Keys Offers Weapons Hatred

Author:Yehuda Berg

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