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All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.
My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.
Taxing companies, particularly successful multinational companies, is one of the most progressive forms of taxation.
Traditional musical forms like 'Parai Isai' and 'Villupattu' are unique, and they need to be protected and nurtured.
Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
Diversity is strength. Our cinema and our art forms need to diversify so that it tells all stories, all perspectives.
Evil comes in many forms, and whether you are male or female, that doesn't matter as much as what lurks in your mind.
A well-written novel, the most immersive of all forms of storytelling, should command your full attention and belief.
You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.
I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.
I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.
Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.
I'm a very femme gay boy, so what better way to express that than through drag? It truly is the greatest mix of art forms.
It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.
'Star Trek' is about acceptance, and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embraces diversity in all its forms.
Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.
Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
Sharks are among the most perfectly constructed creatures in nature. Some forms have survived for two hundred million years.
Film and TV are the most popular mediums in America. Literature and poetry are possibly the most under-recognized art forms.
All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.
The argument that a serif font is too fussy doesn't cut it anymore. You want a font where the letter forms are not ambiguous.
I think the rhythm is like the spine of the piece. If you change that, then the body that forms around it is changed as well.
The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.
The things that people won't totally accept come in all shapes and sizes and forms, and I can relate to that in my own youth.
The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.
One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.
Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.
My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.
Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.
Virtually all modern forms of extremism accuse liberal Western democratic systems of being hypocritical and, ultimately, weak.
My goal is to be able to fill out one of those forms that asks 'Who are you?' and be able to just put 'Human being,' you know?
I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.
I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
We are engaging with so many art forms at once in the 21st century, but we're presented with them in a way that is so isolated.
The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.
I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.
Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.
What the human being sees, what is poured into his environment, becomes a force in him. In accordance with it, he forms himself.
In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.