Formed Quotes
849 Formed quotes by 682 unique authors
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The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by those who were…
— James Madison
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What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall…
— John Quincy Adams
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Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It…
— V.S. Naipaul
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The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real…
— Erich Fromm
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Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves.
— Viola Spolin
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Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.
— Louis Althusser
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness…
— Marquis de Sade
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Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his…
— Robert Fitzgerald
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Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring…
— Robert Fitzgerald
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Yeah, after making Pablo Honey, we started experimenting with cloning myself in order to double the band's creative energy. However, the experiment was a failure,…
— Thom Yorke
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I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand…
— Robert Rauschenberg
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I will frankly confess that after passing a few weeks in the valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than…
— Herman Melville
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Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an…
— William Graham Sumner
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I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug addicts but they…
— Mike Tyson
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
— Democritus
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Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that may be called…
— Richard Baxter
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Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country,…
— Edmund Burke
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Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation, the wait, the…
— Doris Grumbach
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Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.
— Chris Evert
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