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For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very uneasy about the fact that all I did was write in a situation as desperate as apartheid South Africa. Whether I was correct or not is a different issue.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: About Action Africa Allow Always Apartheid Believe Correct Desperate Did Different Fact Felt Form Issue Life Most Myself Refused Significant Situation South South Africa Uneasy Very Whether Write Writing

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There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: Action Close Come Faith Form Life Losing Theater Times Years

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The arts are so important not only to society but to ourselves as human beings. It keeps in touch with our own humanity. So access to the arts in any way, shape, or form is vital.

~Audra Mcdonald

Topics: Access Any Arts Beings Form Human Human Beings Humanity Important Keeps Only Our Ourselves Own Shape Society Touch Vital Way

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The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do not fly (Apteryx, Penguins) show these adaptations in a greatly reduced form.

~August Krogh

Topics: Adaptation Adapted Birds Definitely Fact Flight Fly Form Function Greatly Mechanisms Reduced Respiratory Show Which

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Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.

~Auguste Rodin

Topics: Ages Belongs By The People Eternal Form History Joy Looked Man Moment Naked Particular People

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The U.S. fiscal union has worked, in no small part, by enabling subsidies to the Mississippis without requiring the approval of the Minnesotas. It creates an important form of insurance.

~Austan Goolsbee

Topics: Approval Creates Enabling Fiscal Form Important Insurance Part Requiring Small Small Part Subsidies Union Without Worked

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Don't let form become more important than the substance of your heart and mind. Don't let commerce determine what you do exclusively.

~Avery Brooks

Topics: Become Commerce Determine Form Heart Important Mind More Substance Than You Your

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If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God has given - my mind, my voice, my heart, my art forms. This is the highest form of expression on the planet from God, to me, to you.

~Avery Brooks

Topics: Art Art Forms Carpenter Empower Expression Find Form Forms Given God Heart Highest Highest Form Me Mind Much Planet Skill Using Voice Way Were You

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As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.

~Avicenna

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I see no difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is defined as submission to the will of Allah, as it is described in the Koran. Islamism is just Islam in its most pure form.

~Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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