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Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.

~Felix Dennis

Topics: Art Art Forms Forms Leaders Oldest Poetry Powers Tribal

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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

~Felix Dennis

Topics: Fleeting Forms Happiness Many Most Prove Sorrow Though

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Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

~Ferdinand De Saussure

Topics: About Devices Everyone Far Forms Goes His Idea Language Left Own Truth Very Which

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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

~Ferdinand De Saussure

Topics: Able Among Carries Changes Different Forms Historian How Language Lives Other Others Over Phenomena See Time Useful Whether

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The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.

~Ferdinand Marcos

Topics: America American Asia Asian Challenge Defensive Extend Forms Freedom Power Self-Respect Shield

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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

~Francis Bacon

Topics: Art Attempt Fashion Forms Intercourse Living Only Realize Social

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Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to happiness, to dancing, to sport... to the delights of the country, to laughter, and to all forms of cheerfulness.

~Frank Crowninshield

Topics: American American Life Change Cheerfulness Country Dancing Delights Devotion Forms Great Happiness Increased Instance Laughter Let Us Life Pleasure Recently Respect Sport Us Which

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By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.

~Frank Frazetta

Topics: Art Artist Born By The Time Forms Just Knew Liked Teenager Time Wanted

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The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

~Frans De Waal

Topics: Curiosity Dogma Endless Enemy Forms Reflection Religion Science Shapes Thought True

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It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life.

~Franz Boas

Topics: About Brought Causes Differentiation Establishment Events Forms Human Human Life Inquire Investigate Led Life Observed Our Sequence Task

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