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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

George Bernard Shaw

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Carl Jung

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.

Oscar Wilde

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Oscar Wilde

Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known.

Oscar Wilde

Chastity is the greatest form of perversion.

Oscar Wilde

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

Benjamin Disraeli

What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

M. C. Escher

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.

William Shakespeare

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

Aldous Huxley

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Mahatma Gandhi

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

Wayne Dyer

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

Rudyard Kipling

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

Emmet Fox

An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

A pun is the lowest form of humor - when you don't think of it first.

Oscar Levant

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Baruch Spinoza

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

Julia Child

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Alexander Pope

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Joseph Conrad

Life is true to form; records are meant to be broken.

Mark Spitz

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Albert Einstein

I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.

Joan Crawford

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Joseph Brodsky

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Bierce

Demand for portable MP3 players is booming, as more and more consumers get acquainted with their stylish form factors and digital audio functionality.

Susan Kevorkian

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

Aaron Hill

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

Luigi Pirandello

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

I think it's an affordable luxury. It's really an interesting form of entertainment.

Rich Melman

We've been happy with him since his win in the St Leger and he's in good form.

Aidan O'brien

There will be selective application against Arabs and Muslims and this is pure form of discrimination.

Nihad Awad

The denial of racism is a form of racism itself.

Tim Wise

I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.

Brad Pitt

It should be as simple as filling out a form for your driver's license. I don't know why it's so complicated.

Sharyn Sooho

Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

Howard Scott

Each one of the divisions of public safety deal with the public in some form or fashion.

Bill James

Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery.

George Segal

The negotiations are not finalized, but it's in the Downtown Master Plan, but in draft form.

Scott Aaronson

If somebody comes to see us for the first time, they fill out a screening form.

Jim Kelly

Expressing anger is a form of public littering.

Dr. Willard Gaylin

If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.

James Mcbride

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Arthur Christopher Benson

We were coming down with offensive rebounds, but then missing a lot of shots form 2 feet away.

Rob Gray

The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.

Upton Sinclair

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

John Kenneth Galbraith

He was back to his old form.

Brian Boyle

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

Benjamin Cardozo

He's got great form in catching the ball.

Scott Hawkins

Today it takes more brains and effort to make out the income tax form than it does to make the income.

Alfred E. Neuman

Our biggest challenge is that Zimbabweans have never experienced any form of free and fair elections and have had 25 years of broken promises and betrayed dreams.

Paul Themba Nyathi

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

Doug Horton

It's not something you just fill out a form for.

Mark Miles

These workers want to be able to choose how to form a union.

Renee Asher

Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.

Anatole Broyard

The impulse to form independent authorities is profoundly undemocratic.

Charles Flowers

It is a farce. If they couldn't form a government till now, how will they lead a country?

Ahmed Ali

We are starting to find our form defensively and clicking offensively. We've just got to do a better job of finding the net.

Jim Mott

You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.

Constantine Karamanlis

We form bonds. It's a very female bonding kind of dance.

Aisha Ali

China's a real challenge because everyone who has some form of talent has someone knocking on their door.

David Cunningham

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

Sheila Graham

I feel my form is better than ever.

Peter Gade

It's OK to place third in the qualification, because I just want to make the final. I will demonstrate my best form tomorrow.

Li Nina

It would be nice if there were a policy response in the form of a tighter fiscal policy.

Richard Fox

I love creatures in their pure form.

Ben Kingsley

These guys are all capable candidates in some way, shape or form for some Division I institution.

Floyd Keith

It's expected, almost, that there are going to be changes and form changes.

Chris Leigh

These kids are scared. When you're scared, you're going to form alliances and allegiances for protection.

Shane May

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

Roberto Rossellini

An answer is always a form of death.

John Fowles

That was the most embarrassing effort I've ever been associated with as a college basketball player or coach. We had no answer for them in any shape or form.

Jim Wooldridge

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

Nick Cave

The Special Olympics is for anyone ages 8 to 99 and it's not too late for them to turn in their entry form.

Connie Thomason

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Thomas C. Haliburton

He looks exceptional. He looks like a guy trying to get back to his Super Bowl form.

Shaun Williams

There will be zero tolerance for any form of discrimination.

Mayor Gerard Couture

It's clear as crystal that the fact that something is in draft form is meaningless.

Mark Anfinson

I think white pine in some form or another belongs in that forest. It is not a weed.

Robert Woodruff

You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, For they will come into being together.

Arnold Schoenberg

He can shoot the ball. His form is better than Bryce's. He and Jake have a better pure shot.

Matt Mckay

She is not self centered in anyway form or fashion. She takes care of everybody else before her. I don't know a better Christian girl.

Mark Dowd

He's racing in arguably the best form of his career.

Doug Harrison

This is an obvious form of welfare for the rich.

Orrin Pilkey

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Test results showed it was not the variant form of CJD.

Tom Shanahan

We could do with it firm. He's in good form.

Frances Crowley

Consumers need to have access to this new and innovative form of marketing.

William Baer

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Aleister Crowley

We have expectations that have been hatched under an analog environment that are under the threat of a new form of regulation.

Peter Jaszi

You don't just go from being injured to being back in form. It takes time.

Colin Clarke

Music connects with the soul. I think it's the quickest art form to the soul.

Chris Tomlin

Mom didn't have breast cancer, it was another form. Still, this was all about them.

Brent White

Fabien was in great form at the moment. His absence is a bitter blow for the team.

Jean Fernandez

I always find the drone in everything . I'm exploring the drone in a new form. It's a different mask, but with the same face behind it.

Dylan Carlson

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The most common form of multistory building in Turkey (is) what we call a concrete frame.

Jim Malley

From what I understand Sir Michael's got him in excellent form and we are expecting nothing but a decent run from him.

Bryan Moore

I am confident of the AGP winning the polls and forming the next Government.

Brindaban Goswami

David's had an incredible year on clay and is in spectacular form at the moment.

Jordi Arrese

I encourage everyone to send in the update form so I can send them new map pages, which they can easily add to their book.

Clint Land

He's been the big thing for us. He's back doing what we expected him to do. He's won his last four starts, and it's nice to have him back in form.

Tim Chambers

She is not in the form at all. We tried to persuade her to give up all-around but she insisted to give it a try.

Lu Shanzhen

He is in great form.

Michael Bell

Finances and scholarships will all take a different form.

Bob Hatcher

We're going to have to pass some of this on in some form to our customers.

Derrick Jackson

We are determined to bring a new audience to opera. If we don't, then I'm afraid the form will wither and die.

Paul Kellogg

I have contacted council members in northern Utah cities that use districting and asked them about it. They all said it was an effective form of government.

Jerry Campbell

It's safe to say it is more than 30 years old, it's been around for that long in some way, shape or form.

Betty Ellis

It is vital that we put every effort in and try to produce a good run of form.

Martin Jones

He seems to be in very good form and good in himself.

Jessica Harrington

You form a common bond with people who go through the same thing you do.

Geoffrey Braunsberg

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He can't bowl at this stage, but his form in Australia warrants that he will certainly be considered as a batter, probably at number six.

Bennett King

The only part of this economy that has really begun to take form in this country is around food, and one of the earliest and most notable experiments of this kind in the country is Caretaker Farm.

Bill Mckibben

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport.

Tony Hawk

...They form an important part of his coalition.

David Landau

Every market has some form of competition and they are not bad, they are just different than ours.

Jason Thunstrom

PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Bierce

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

Thornton Wilder

She is quick, a good passer, and she has really good shooting form.

Ben Braaten

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

Thomas Arnold

We are really in a public-private partnership as we run this country in some form or another.

Danny Williams

Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

Gian Carlo Menotti

Every day I was in captivity, I prayed for a miracle, ... It was delivered in the form of Rev. Jackson and his delegation.

Christopher Stone

Humility is the best form of warfare; it is the only thing the enemy cannot do.

Keri Harvey

I was focusing on London. I was in my best form.

Paul Tergat

I think Azevedo will be in good form, ... I think he can do a good race there.

Tom Danielson

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

Will Eisner

We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

Native American Proverb

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

Mary Mccarthy

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

I think the art form I work in benefits from demystification.

Doug Varone

I think this is a very low-impact form of tourism. We think this does not have the same impact as building a resort.

Robert Kritzman

There is hardly an imaginable form of genital assault that is not regularly performed on children.

Lloyd Demause

ECD is an open-source Excel-based version of 1752. The Excel version is a more powerful form than the PDF form.

Michael Kirschner

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Jacques Maritain

It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.

Paul Conrad

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

Gene Fowler

Re: Ian Bell becoming England captain I always thought it was customary for the England captain to lose form after he'd been named captain rather than before.

Ben Wilson

They're definitely more in midseason form than we are at this point of the year.

Steve Sell

Our understanding is that the (tantalum) business is likely to continue for some time in the current form.

Greig Gailey

We would always try to have Notre Dame in our bowl picture, even if that's in the form of an individual contract with the school.

Rick Catlett

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.

Jean Tinguely

It's a modern form of slavery, where criminals earn the most money.

Ulrike Helwerth

You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun. . . .

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Gillespie ... was asked to go back to domestic cricket and find some form.

Geoff Lawson

Vinnie is in great physical shape and also in great form.

Marco Bresciano

The university lawyers have a form they've made up.

William Bass

There will never, ever, ever be a contract without some form of cost sharing.

Bill Jones

Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.

Leo Rosten

Basically, I woke up one morning and there was this new form of protest.

Greg Lukianoff

No form of bird flu was found, including H5N1.

Cathy Maret

The decision was made to ease the closure. What form it takes is not known yet.

Michael Stoltz

Jon Corzine did not benefit in any way shape or form from this vote.

Tom Shea

We've been around for 100 years ... in some form or another. We've always had a strong commitment to the environment.

Tom Kleckner

We really don't know the safety of adding these in a supplemental form.

Cynthia Sass

It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.

Sir Arthur Eddington

This book is not presenting creationism in any form as a scientifically credible view.

Glenn Branch

Some people have felt like they?re the only ones in their family with no talent. This is an artistic, beautiful form of self-expression, and that feeds them.

Debbie Mock

Musical theater is a broad, big tent of an art form.

Kevin Mccollum

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Jerry Brown

There are other families of particles out there that can form massive compact objects.

Christopher Reynolds

I can't understand why anyone would do that. We clearly say on the voter registration form that it's the primary voter address - it's as clear as one can be.

John Ravitz

I'm hoping this turns out to be a very strong form race.

Paul Perry

There needs to be some form of public attention that deals with some kind of intervention.

Steve Lungen

As I dictate, other characters come in and the story begins to form, and I really talk the story.

Sidney Sheldon

He is in good form but the ground may be a bit sticky for him.

Peter Bowen

We want to form the widest government possible.

Yossi Beilin

For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

Ingrid Bengis

They are the guys in good form.

Arsenal Wenger

I think that making love is the best form of exercise.

Cary Grant

I doubt that would hold a lot of promise for us. Kids are forming their personalities.

Bruce Hunter

Every time we say, 'Let there be!' in any form, something happens.

Stella Terrill Mann

New Orleans lost the battle with the inevitable, and we will suffer the same fate in some form here in California.

Jeffrey Mount

The monks won't accept money, so I'll have to make the donation in the form of food or goods.

William Meehan

Weapons can come in any form. Baggage checkers don't know exactly what they're looking for.

Mary Bravo

Any form of a winning record in the conference is an accomplishment.

Jordan Knight

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.

Ossie Davis

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

Spike Milligan

I have no fondness for pure form at all.

Peter Porter

They are both intended runners and are in good form.

Frank Berry

My form has been getting better and better and it's likely that I'll be able to run under 35 seconds.

Joji Kato

This is our form of cinema.

Aamir Khan

Freedom and independence form my character.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Forming those values begins long before dating.

Marcie Lightwood

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Henry Brooks Adams

We're not here to act out of some form of vengeance. We're not here to act as a bunch of well-dressed vigilantes.

Richard Nichols

The idea is to form a habit, to get in the habit of getting out on a regular basis.

Karen Smith

There is no way that you can form iron-60 other than in a massive, evolved star.

Jeff Hester

My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.

Alexander Calder

Music is a form of prayer.

Toru Takemitsu

It is unlikely that bondholders would get utterly buried in a takeover. There is a lifeline, in the form of covenants.

James Foster

I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art.

Steve Mann

We can explain it after the fact, but we can't forecast that very well, where the storms are going to form.

Chris Landsea

I would bet that he has all the (generator) power he needs. And I imagine he has some form of communications.

Bill Clark

Between that committee and the principals, they will form an interview committee and go from there.

Ken Flaten