#forms

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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.


Walter Pater


#bury #calling #experience #external #external objects

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.


Walter Pater


#comes #disinterested #ecstasy #enthusiastic #forms

Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.


Jim Ramstad


#filling #forms #hours #keeping #out

His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.


Bridget Riley


#does #else #even #failures #his

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.


William Robertson Smith


#bloody #effort #even #every #forms

But we will lose the millions of records being created daily in a dizzying array of electronic forms unless we find a way to preserve and keep them accessible indefinitely.


Allen Weinstein


#array #being #created #daily #dizzying

It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection.


Maurice Wilkins


#copies #could #disorder #essential #exact

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.


Woodrow Wilson


#above #been #bosses #democracy #designed

A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.


Matthew Lesko


#degree #forms #inherent #know #languages

In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of these systems were finite; that is, they were complete using all possible variations. This kept them simple.


Sol LeWitt


#color #complete #cube #elements #finite