Formation Quotes - Page 5

• There is only that inevitable danger as long as there is lack of understanding; but the moment the individual understands, there will be no formation of religion.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Long, Understanding, Moments

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• As soon as there are no more classes, as soon as boundaries between classes are effaced, as soon as only a few but non-fundamental differences between various strata of the socialist society remain - there can no longer be nourishing ground for the formation of parties struggling among themselves.

  Joseph Stalin

  Struggle, Party, Class

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• It's very important to understand that 21st century authoritarian rule does not look like 20th century authoritarian rule. You're not going to have people in parade ground formations. You're not going to have a police state. You're not going to people with decorative armbands bullying people on the sidewalks. And the leaders won't stand at microphones for hours ranting at people. All of that is so 80 years ago.

  David Frum

  Bullying, Years, People

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• Intersectionality has made an important contribution to social and political analysis, asking all of us to think about what assumptions of race and class we make when we speak about "women" or what assumptions of gender and race we make when we speak about "class." It allows us to unpack those categories and see the various kinds of social formations and power relations that constitute those categories.

  Judith Butler

  Thinking, Race, Class

  Source: transadvocate.com

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• That intellectuals, including academics, would become a "new class" of technocrats, claiming the name of science while cooperating with the powerful, was predicted by [Mikhail] Bakunin in the early days of the formation of the modern intelligentsia in the 19th century.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Class, Names

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• There's an interesting question, whether the anarchists had alternatives [in Spain]. If they did tend to support the government that had been destroyed, what were the alternatives? There was actually a proposal by Camillo Berneri, an Italian anarchist who was in Spain at the time, which is not a crazy notion in my opinion. He opposed participation in government and was against the formation of an army, meaning a major army to fight [Francisco] Franco.

  Noam Chomsky

  Crazy, Fighting, Army

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• The jewel of the lard is right around the kidneys. But this is a fat that has a very specific crystalline formation and a high melting point.

  Alton Brown

  Jewels, Melting, Kidneys

  "TV Chef Alton Brown Shares Tips On The Science Of Thanksgiving Dinner". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. November 24, 2016.

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• One thing I can't afford to get sucked up in is the trend formation of restaurants here. I've invested heavily. We have a ten-year lease. More importantly, the style, the feel and the décor of the dining room is vibrant.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Years, Style, Dining

  Source: www.crushable.com

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• Basically, I have found that people who have tried to start communities out of good feelings or hippie-dippie abstract concepts of love - it doesn't work. But if you just concentrate on what is the identity of your town - its waterfalls, its battles, its notable mill strike or those things - you dig into what your town is from its rock formations to its history to its food. Then this thing called community happens all the time.

  Dar Williams

  Hippie, Rocks, People

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we're just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.

  Dallas Willard

  Christian, Character, Priorities

  Source: renovare.org

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• You really can't justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.

  Dallas Willard

  Spiritual, Giving, Attention

  Source: renovare.org

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• In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature of language, particularly English, in the formation of my imagination and being.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Imagination, Able

  Source: www.oxfordjournals.org

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• To avoid a split between what men consciously know because they are aware of having learned it by a specific job of learning, and what they unconsciously know because they have absorbed it in the formation of their characters by intercourse with others, becomes an increasingly delicate task with every development of special schooling.

  John Dewey

  Jobs, Character, Men

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• In particular, with climbing, we're climbing on these surfaces that Mother Nature has created. We search out the most perfect pieces of rock. It's so amazing that these formations are so perfect for climbing on. It's almost as if they were created for climbing.

  Chris Sharma

  Mother, Rocks, Climbing

  "Natural Born Climber: Chris Sharma". Interview with Chris Sharma, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Fixed formation is bad. Study this well.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Study, Fixed, Wells

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.21, Bottom of the Hill

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• Capital formation is the greatest charity of all.

  F. A. Harper

  Charity

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• Many Christians were suddenly prepared to look at traditional methods of spiritual formation. They could not help but see that spiritual growth and vitality stem from what we actually do with our lives, from the habits we form, and from the character that results.

  Dallas Willard

  Christian, Spiritual, Character

  Dallas Willard (2009). “The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• Let me formulate the artistic disposition as follows: it is reacting with one's ideal to the flaw in oneself and in the world, and somehow making that reaction formation solid enough in the medium so that it indeed becomes an improved bit of real world for others.

  Paul Goodman

  Real, World, Artistic

  Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 176), 1956.

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• The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.

  Paul Goodman

  Travel, Space, Land

  Paul Goodman (1966). “Five years”

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• The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature. . . . [In] the formation of the American governments . . . it will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of heaven. . . . These governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.

  John Adams

  Simple, Government, America

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• The formation of the life of a person in the womb is the work of God, and it is not merely a mechanical process but a work on the analogy of weaving or knitting: "Thou didst knit me together in my mother's womb" (psalm 139:13). The life of the unborn is the knitting of God, and what He is knitting is a human being in His own image, unlike any other creature in the universe... The destruction of conceived human life - whether embryonic, fetal, or viable - is an assault on the unique person-forming work of God.

  John Piper

  Mother, Unique, Knitting

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• It is not that the university as such is against spiritual formation. It is just that often the university does not know how to integrate spiritual formation within its academic disciplines.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Discipline, Doe

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• For me the university has always been an ideal context for spiritual formation. I always felt that if you want to offer spiritual formation at the university, you can.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Want, University

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• Trans rights formation that mimics the models and strategies of the lesbian and gay rights framework is growing, and there are many significant strategy disagreements between those building that work and those doing racial and economic justice centered trans work.

  Dean Spade

  Gay, Rights, Justice

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Years, Nations, Nationalism

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Hind Swaraj”, p.20, Rajpal & Sons

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