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We live in stories. What we are is stories. We do things because of what is called character, and our character is formed by the… — William Kittredge
We realize--often quite suddenly--that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who… — Adyashanti
For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed it have long… — Zachary Taylor
I am interested to learn that a group of distinguished men and women is to be formed to spread knowledge and appreciation of the rehabilitation… — Herbert Hoover
The conception of Godhead formed by some devout philosophers and mystics has quite rightly been so immeasurably vast, though still assuredly utterly inadequate and necessarily… — Oliver Lodge
Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with… — Viola Spolin
For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: /… — John Milton
I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life, and… — Benjamin Franklin
Although life is a continuous process, fertilization is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is thereby formed.... The… — Unknown Author
I have been there, and I have seen these totally formed babies as early as ten weeks...with the leg missing, or with their head off.… — Unknown Author
The parties of Whig and Tory are those of nature. They exist in all countries, whether called by these names or by those of Aristocrats… — Thomas Jefferson
We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us. — Frank Herbert
Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length. — George Mercer Dawson
A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock. — Charles Simmons
As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an… — Henry David Thoreau
The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on… — Thomas A. Edison
I liked working in advertising, but don't believe my taste in art, such as it is, was entirely formed by TV commercials. And I don't… — Charles Saatchi
We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical… — Edward Bernays
Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it. — William Blackstone
Let the advocate of animal food, force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and as Plutarch recommends, tear a living lamb with his… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand at his side as a… — Christine de Pizan
Her [Mary's] motherhood extends beyond view. In the will of the Son, she becomes at once mother and maid: sheltering him, but sheltered in him,… — Adrienne von Speyr
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at… — John B. Watson
The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces as the behavior it prevents-the talks, the games, the… — Urie Bronfenbrenner
Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed. — Hannah More

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