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When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

~Antonin Artaud

Topics: Center Fact Forms Fragile Know Life Must Never Reach Referring Speak Surface Understood Which Word

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Part of any acquisition process is what's loosely called 'due diligence.' Taking both technical and legal forms, it's the snooping around an acquiring company does to make sure it's actually getting what it thinks it is.

~Antonio Garcia Martinez

Topics: Acquiring Acquisition Actually Any Around Both Company Diligence Does Due Forms Getting Legal Loosely Make Part Process Sure Taking Technical Thinks

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A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and epic poems.

~Antony Beevor

Topics: Been Blend Creative Creative Writing Dawn Epic Fact Fiction Forms Poems Since Starting Used Various Writing

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I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.

~Antony Gormley

Topics: Art Believe Century Cities City Dance Diverse Environment Forms Human Inspirational Life Make Matrix Must Natural Our Performance Places Public Putting Space Street Will I Believe I Believe In 21St Century

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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

~Aristotle

Topics: After Different Different Ways Forms Government Happiness Life Make Means Men Modes Seek Themselves Ways

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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

~Aristotle

Topics: Forms Gold Impress Iron Itself Matter Piece Power Receiving Sense Sensible Takes Things Wax Way Which Without

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It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

~Arthur C. Clarke

Topics: Against Earth Easy Extreme Forms Globe How Long Men More Nationalism Perspective See Seen Single Small Stars Survive True

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I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God - and I hope you'll quote me on that.

~Arthur Hertzberg

Topics: Christian Enemies Forms Fundamentalism God Hope Jewish Me Other Quote Regard You

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It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.

~Asa Gray

Topics: Always Animals Believed Blend Closely Each Forms Higher Lower Other Plants Plants And Animals Representatives Simpler Though Understood Very Were

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The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.

~Asa Gray

Topics: Animal Animals Become Before Best Definition Difficulty Down Either Ever Far Forms Greater Laying Now Opinion Ordinary Plant Plants Plants And Animals Respects Sufficiently Than Which While

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