#forms

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#art #been #beyond #democracy #displacing

We are now preparing for the reform of the yuan's exchange rate system. For such reforms to take place, we need good economic conditions... and we need to do it under tight control. ↗

— Wu Yi

#control #economic #exchange #exchange rate #good

The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom. ↗

— Paramahansa Yogananda

#aspires #because #being #creation #form

While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war. ↗

— John Yoo

#combatants #command #conduct #conventions #failing

Angry Birds is one of the fastest-growing online products I've seen, growing even faster than Skype, and the company has done a brilliant job of extending it across different platforms and merchandise. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#angry #birds #brilliant #company #different

A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle. ↗

— Linda M. Godwin

#find #fly #flying #form #forms

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane. ↗

— Graham Greene

#connected #course #does #filling #fingers

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be. ↗

— Philip Guedalla

#biography #forms #game #hunting #like

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

#been #force #forms #hypothesis #keep

We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life forms, that's the cruelest hoax of all. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#been #cruelest #forms #government #hoax