#forms

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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.


Wole Soyinka


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But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.


Wole Soyinka


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The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.


Anna Garlin Spencer


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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.


Herbert Spencer


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That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due.


Charles Inglis


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As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.


Gianfranco Ferre


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If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.


Alexis Herman


#begin #child #child labor #elimination #forms

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.


Anna Pavlova


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This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.


William Robertson Smith


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I searched modern fiction and poetry for clues to how we confronted and evaded reality, how we articulated our experience and turned to language not to revel ourselves but to hide. I was as sure then as I am now that by looking at contemporary Iranian fiction I could gain access to a real understanding of political and social events. (p289)


Azar Nafisi


#how-fiction-informs-reality #purpose #experience