Formulate Quotes
72 quotes by 68 authors
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Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of…
— John Taylor Gatto
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We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if…
— William Ralph Inge
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You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire…
— Pope John Paul II
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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.
— Herbert Read
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Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of…
— Boyd Rice
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If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems…
— Salman Rushdie
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The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT…
— Jack London
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We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our…
— Hermann Hesse
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When I recollect her, I see a long list of colors, but it's the three in which I saw her in the flesh that resonate…
— Markus Zusak
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Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are…
— Milan Kundera
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I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete.…
— Aleksandar Hemon
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I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment against the bourgeoisie…
— Karl Marx
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If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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...he did not want me to seek the whys, because there are some things that happen for which we can formulate no whys, for which…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first…
— C. Wright Mills
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My mind struggled to formulate a coherent though, any thought. I opened my mouth. "Your pajamas have Eeyore on them." "I like Eeyore. He's sensible.…
— Ilona Andrews
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Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.†A variant to keep in mind is that if…
— Noam Chomsky
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An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible…
— Lisa Randall
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