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“The Jews cannot be classed as a 'race' per se, they are an ethnic group. '...the Jews form an ethnic group; that like all ethnic groups they have their own racial elements distributed in their own proportions; like all or most ethnic groups they have their 'look,' a part of their cultural heritage that both preserves and expresses their cultural solidarity...they have developed a special racial sub-type and a special pattern of facial and bodily expression.”

Looks Form Race Groups Special Expression Type Elements Patterns Jew Preserves Proportion Heritage Solidarity Facial Cultural Heritage Ethnic Groups

Author:Carleton S. Coon

“Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.”

Spiritual Form Poetry Crazy Special Expression Creating Mediums Bridges Poetry Is Closest

Book:Crazy Wisdom

Source: Crazy Wisdom

“Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.”

Writing Form Poetry Special Painter Translations Something Special Illustration

Author:Paul Gauguin

“Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.”

Art Two Stories Together Form Special Interpretation Works Of Art Great Work

Author:Itay Talgam

“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

“Comedic actors can be looked at as a lower form because we have to put ourselves in a lower place than most of the audience. I think lofty emotions are somehow considered more special. The best stories in the world to me are the ones that elicit a real emotion, but have humour.”

Thinking World Real Stories Form Actors Emotion Audience Special Humour Lofty Comedic Real Emotion

Author:Jim Carrey

“What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it's important to reflect on what made jazz so special.”

Thinking Art Made Important Happens Form Special Standards Jazz Say Anything Ambiguous

Author:Stefon Harris

“I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind form all repression. I say not that art has already realized this, on the contrary, and because it has not, it has to be developed as a weapon, at first there are radical levels, then you can speak about special details.”

Thinking Firsts Art Form Political Speak Levels Special Weapons Art Is Details Contrary Radical Revolutionary Humankind Repression Political Power

Author:Joseph Beuys

“The condition of the theater is always an accurate measure of the cultural health of a nation. A play always exists in the present tense (if it is a valuable one), and its music -- its special noise -- is always contemporary. The most valuable function of the theater as an art form is to tell us who we are, and the health of the theater is determined by how much of that we want to know.”

Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee

“Take the notion of tradition: it is intended to give a special temporal status to a group of phenomena that are both successive and identical (or at least similar); it makes it possible to rethink the dispersion of history in the form of the same; it allows a reduction of the difference proper to every beginning, in order to pursue without discontinuity the endless search for origin.”

Giving Form Order Differences Groups Special Tradition Notion Endless Pursue Identical Reduction Discontinuity Dispersion

Book:Archaeology of Knowledge

Source: Archaeology of Knowledge

“The unphilosophical and philosophical attitudes can be very sharply distinguished (with scarcely any intermediate forms) by the fact that the first accepts everything that happens as regards its general form, and finds occasion for surprise only in that special content by which something that happens here today differs from what happened there yesterday; whereas for the second, it is precisely the common features of all experience, such as characterise everything we encounter, which are the primary and most profound occasion for astonishment.”

“I am fully assured, that no general method for the solution of questions in the theory of probabilities can be established which does not explicitly recognize, not only the special numerical bases of the science, but also those universal laws of thought which are the basis of all reasoning, and which, whatever they may be as to their essence, are at least mathematical as to their form.”

May Doe Form Law Special Theory Solutions Essence Universal Bases Method Mathematical Reasoning Probability Assured Universal Laws

Book:Collected Logical Works

Source: Collected Logical Works

“The laws of thermodynamics may be regarded as particular cases of more general laws, applicable to all such states of matter as constitute Energy , or the capacity to perform work, which more general laws form the basis of the science of energetics, a science comprehending, as special branches, the theories of motion, heat, light , electricity , and all other physical phenomena.”

Source: A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers by William John Macquorn Rankine

“Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...”

Thinking Way Stills Two Different Feelings Today Faces Form Spirit Common Special Species Islam Jew Way Of Thinking Face To Face

Author:A. C. Cuza

“It's so silly isn't it? how we grown men take up trout angling not simply to pursue trout but to find some place, some special place, where we feel at ease. a place to belong. Forces, not forms, persist: energy is spent and endures; time does not tick, it flows. God loves a man that smells of trout water and mountain meadows. Which way's heaven, you suppose? Follow the trail and keep close to the stream.”

“You are a child of the universe, "fearfully and wonderfully made." In the history of creation, there has never been anyone like you. Accept this reality about yourself- that you are a special, unique human being who has a place on this earth that no one else can fill. Acknowledge yourself as a glorious expression of your loving Creator. This healthy self-love will form the foundation of a joyful and satisfying life. Then, as you love and accept yourself, your inner light will shine outward to bless and heal your fellow human beings.”

“Surfing is very special and unique. It's really hard to explain unless you've tried it. It's being out in the ocean in the sun, the water on your skin, and the adrenalin rush when you catch a wave. You have to be creative so it's like an art form in a way.”

Way Art Hard Form Water Sun Creative Special Ocean Unique Skins Wave Be Creative Surfing

Author:Bethany Hamilton

“So, it's pretty crazy. Look, we're bailing out Wall Street, we're bailing out banks, we're bailing out car companies. In fact, did you know there's a special box on your tax form this year you can check if you want a portion of your taxes to actually go to running the government?”

Ifs Knows Want Years Looks Facts Government Running Form Company Crazy Streets Special Car Wall Taxes Boxes Checks Portions Did You Know Bailing Out

Author:Jay Leno

“Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special.”

Art Form Song Special Shoes Clothings

Author:Afrojack

“Fame, or notoriety, whichever that special noise may be called when the world like a hound 'gives tongue' and announces that the quarry in some form of genius is at bay, is apt to increase its clamor in proportion to the aloofness of the pursued animal.”

World Giving May Form Animal Special Genius Fame Increase Tongue Noise Proportion Pursued Hounds Clamor Notoriety Quarry Aloofness

Book:Innocent

Source: Innocent

“Sex is an aspect of human existence that has fallen prey in special measure to a very special form of theological science: the theological outgrowth or offshoot known as moral theology. Its biblical foundations are meager in the sense that nothing of the kind exists in the New Testament, so it has had to achieve its ambition largely by dint of its own efforts.”

Humans Kind Form Sex Effort Existence Known Moral Achieve Special Ambition Aspect Foundation Theology Fallen Biblical Testament Prey New Testament Human Existence Theological

Author:Uta Ranke-Heinemann

“It used to be said, not so long ago, that every suicide gave Satan special pleasure. I don't think that's true-unless it isn't true either that the Devil is a gentleman. If the Devil has no class at all, then okay, I agree: He gets a bang out of suicide. Because suicide is a mess. As a subject for study, suicide is perhaps uniquely incoherent. And the act itself is without shape and without form. The human project implodes, contorts inward-shameful, infantile, writhing, gesturing. It's a mess in there.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Long Said Form Used Pleasure Class Study Special Subjects Shapes Projects Devil Okay Agree Suicide Used To Be Mess Gentleman Satan Long Ago Inward Bangs Shameful Infantile

Author:Martin Amis

“While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent and permanent type of expression, as old as literature itself. There will always be a certain small percentage of persons who feel a burning curiosity about unknown outer space, and a burning desire to escape from the prison-house of the known and the real into those enchanted lands of incredible adventure and infinite possibilities which dreams open up to us, and which things like deep woods, fantastic urban towers, and flaming sunsets momentarily suggest.”

Source: H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)

“Scientists surely have a special responsibility. It is their ideas that form the basis of new technology. They should not be indifferent to the fruits of their ideas. They should forgo experiments that are risky or unethical.”

Should Ideas Form Responsibility Technology Special Scientist Bases Fruit Experiments Indifferent New Technology Unethical

Author:Martin Rees

“If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But I should have to learn from the bottom up, forgetting the theatre entirely and concentrating on the special medium of this new art. My mistake, and that of many others, lay in employing "theatrical" techniques despite every effort to avoid them. Here is something quite, quite fresh, a penetrating form of visual poetry, an untried exponent of the human soul. Alas, I am too old for it!”

“There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but let us not suppose that his restlessness is peace, or his ambition meekness. It is because of the special connection of meekness with contentment that it is promised that the meek shall 'inherit the earth.' Neither covetous men, nor the grave, can inherit anything; they can but consume. Only contentment can possess.”

Men Two Earth Form Desire Special He Man Ambition Connections Complaining Graves Contentment Discontent Restlessness Meek Meekness

Book:Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of Cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation

Source: Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of Cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation

“The authorization I propose would provide the flexibility to conduct ground combat operations in other more limited circumstances, such as rescue operations involving U.S. or coalition personnel or the use of special operations forces to take military action against ISIL leadership, it would also authorize the use of U.S. forces in situations where ground combat operations are not expected or intended, such as intelligence collection and sharing, missions to enable kinetic strikes or the provision of operational planning and other forms of advice and assistance to partner forces.”

“The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.”

Ifs Reason Form Literature Interest Special Subjects Students Ought Western Special Interests Finnish

Book:Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

“Fashion is, after all, a form of escapism, and in fact people are buying more special things than ever, nowadays. They deny and deny themselves, and wait and wait, and then they get sick of it and spend to make themselves feel better.”

People Feels Facts Form Waiting Special Fashion Sick Deny Buying Feel Better Escapism Special Things

Author:Tom Ford

“I could also distinguish the glint of a special puddle (the one Krug had somehow perceived through the layer of his own life), an oblong puddle invariably acquiring the same form after every shower because of the constant spatulate shape of a depression in the ground. Possibly something of the kind may be said to occur in regard to the imprint we leave in the intimate texture of space. Twang. A good night for nothing.”

Kind May Said Form Night Space Special Shapes Depression Regard Constant Intimate Layers Showers Texture Good Night Puddles

Book:Bend Sinister

Source: Bend Sinister

“Individual; that means he has his own special way to communicate, which creates the form of him. In the information age, this expression and communication has become so different.”

Way Mean Different Age Form Individual Special Information Expression Communication Communicate Information Age

Author:Ai Weiwei

“The novel remains a very special form for me.”

Form Novel Special Remains

Author:Howard Gordon

“Leigh Bowery was actually quoted as saying, "Flesh is my most favorite fabric." I've seen many a freak make a scene and go, but Leigh was a special kind of exhibitionist because he was dedicated and saw it as an art form.”

Kind Art Form Saws Special Scene Flesh Dedicated Freak Fabric Exhibitionist Most Favorite

Author:Boy George

“My opinion about Miller's experiments is the following. ... Should the positive result be confirmed, then the special theory of relativity and with it the general theory of relativity, in its current form, would be invalid. Experimentum summus judex. Only the equivalence of inertia and gravitation would remain, however, they would have to lead to a significantly different theory.”

Should Different Would Be Form Results Opinion Special Theory Currents Following Experiments Relativity Inertia Gravitation Theories Of Relativity Positive Results

Author:Albert Einstein

“To suppose universal laws of nature capable of being apprehended by the mind and yet having no reason for their special forms, but standing inexplicable and irrational, is hardly a justifiable position. Uniformities are precisely the sort of facts that need to be accounted for. Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.”

“Infidelity and skepticism abound everywhere. In one form or another they are to be found in every rank and class of society. Thousands are not ashamed to say that they regard the Bible as an old obsolete Jewish book, which has no special claim on our faith and obedience, and that it contains many inaccuracies and defects. In a day like this, the true Christian should be able to set his foot down firmly, and to render a reason of his confidence in God's Word. He should be able by sound arguments to show good cause why he thinks the Bible is from heaven, and not of men.”

“It's more than just a dress; it's a spirit. The wrap dress was an interesting cultural phenomenon, and one that has lasted 30 years. What is so special about it is that it's actually a very traditional form of clothing. It's like a toga, it's like a kimono, without buttons, without a zipper. What made my wrap dresses different is that they were made out of jersey and they sculpted the body.”

Years Made Different Body Form Spirit Interesting Special Dresses Traditional Phenomenon Clothings Buttons Wraps Jersey Zippers Togas Kimonos

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“The act of collaboration must start with dialogue. You cannot build relationships without having an understanding of your potential partners, and you cannot achieve that understanding without a special form of communication that goes beyond ordinary conversation.”

Form Understanding Achieve Special Communication Conversation Ordinary Partners Dialogue Collaboration

Author:Daniel Yankelovich

“Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.”

Different Form Lying Consciousness Special Type Normal Conscious Wake Up Screens Rational Waking

Book:Writings, 1902-1910

Source: Writings, 1902-1910

“I'd rather just help people with my creative energy. I want to remind them that they're cosmic light inside physical forms and they're an incredibly special part of god's wild mind of love, but I'd love to do that in the form of playing at venues or showing a film at festivals.”

People Want Mind Helping Light Film Form Energy Creative Special Cosmic Festivals Venues Creative Energy

Author:Giuseppe Andrews

“Kant's treatments of rational theology and metaphysics were aimed primarily at theoretical questions. His attitude toward the pseudo-sciences of "special metaphysics" in Wolff and Baumgarten was always double-edged. He did see them as pseudo-sciences but also valued their doctrinal value and especially their regulative value for the empirical sciences. Like his views about religion, I don't think any of this is any longer viable in its original form.”

Thinking Form Values Views Attitude Special Originals Theology Rational Treatment Metaphysics Theoretical Pseudo

Author:Allen W. Wood

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