Formation Quotes
218 quotes by 185 authors
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but…
— Aristotle
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The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one:…
— Margaret Atwood
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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
— Hosea Ballou
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The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily…
— John C. Calhoun
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A Christian school should be a place where young men and young women go through a period of spiritual formation and development so that they…
— Tony Campolo
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State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.
— Noam Chomsky
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The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to…
— Alan Greenspan
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I see ranks ready for battle, stretching out. Five, six horses across, ranks in formation. Endlessly.
— Janet Morris
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The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary, of controlling the forces of victory, and…
— Sun Tzu
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It's OK to have butterflies. Just get them flying in formation.
— Francisco Lopez
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Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to the thrilling arrival of 'tilth'…
— Alistair Cooke
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It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.
— Joseph Goebbels
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I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the field of molecular…
— Linus Pauling
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The fundamental problem in the origin of species is not the origin of differences in appearance, since these arise at the level of the geographical…
— David Lack
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According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep enough, (and due…
— John Herschel
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The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essentially sum…
— Karl Pearson
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Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by…
— John Stuart Mill
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The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.
— Charles Darwin
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The missionary experience is part of Christian formation and it is important for adolescents and young people to be able to live it personally.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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... what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our…
— John Stuart Mill
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