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• Technology has no function except to save labor. Yet how often do we hear that the purpose of new capital formation is to create jobs?

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Jobs, Technology

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• If, when we compare two versions of a story, the second known to be a retelling of the first, and find that the second has more of a miraculous element, we may reasonably conclude we have legendary (or midrashic or whatever) embellishment. The tale has grown in the telling. This sort of comparison is common in extrabiblical research and no one holds that it cannot properly indicate legend formation there.

  Robert M. Price

  Two, Religion, Atheism

  Robert M. Price (2008). “Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity”, p.117, Wildside Press LLC

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• Just as the formation of the family is basic to the formation of the state, so the states themselves are the only units that can form the basic constitution of a viable international organization.

  Leon Bourgeois

  Organization, Constitution, States

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• The good thing is, we have household formation in this country. We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Country, Years, Good Things

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• Seeds can produce seeds Seeds can produce formations. Formations can produce seeds. Formations can produce formations.

  Nhat Hanh

  Produce, Seeds

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Understanding Our Mind”, p.78, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.

  Maria Montessori

  Character, Taught, Explanation

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• This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in a common aim, attracting them as to a single centre. Mothers, fathers, politicians: all must combine in their respect and help for this delicate work of formation, which the little child carries on in the depth of a profound psychological mystery, under the tutelage of an inner guide. This is the bright new hope for mankind.

  Maria Montessori

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles have only been confirmed, and along with them our conviction that mankind can hope for a solution to its problems, among which the most urgent are those of peace and unity, only by turning its attention and energies to the discovery of the child and to the development of the great potentialities of the human personality in the course of its formation.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Discovery, Times Have Changed

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• Alan Rocke's Image and Reality does so many things vividly and convincingly: it shows how visual images led chemistry step by step to the reality of the microscopic world; how simple portrayals of the logic of substitution and combination were reified; brings to our attention the imaginative, neglected work of Williamson and Kopp; and takes a critical look at Kekule's daydream. And it beautifully delineates the essential place the imagination has in science. A rewarding, lively picture of chemistry in formation.

  Roald Hoffmann

  Simple, Reality, Imagination

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• Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.

  Paulo Freire

  Teacher, Self, Preparation

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.23, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  Race, Generations, Groups

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• Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Beauty, Art, Curves

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• Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Art, Skills

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.281, Courier Corporation

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• The Bible is the Only Book That Can Make Us Wise unto Salvation. The Bible is not a book to be studied as we study geology and astronomy, merely to find out about the earth's formation and the structure of the universe; but it is a book revealing truth, designed to bring us into living union with God.

  George Frederick Pentecost

  Christian, Wise, Book

  George Frederick Pentecost (1885). “"In the Volume of the Book ": Or, the Profit and Pleasure of Bible Study ... with an Introduction by Revs. Joseph Cook and J.H. Vincent”

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• Everything is a formation or an aggregate of love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Bhakti Yoga

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• There is nothing that so raises a young man's self-esteem, that so contributes to the formation of his character as for him to find himself unexpectedly confronted with a task which he has to accomplish entirely on his own initiative and by his own efforts.

  Stefan Zweig

  Self Esteem, Character, Men

  "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

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• Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.

  John French Sloan

  Art, Color, Drawing

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• A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. Under the name of Anarchy, a new interpretation of the past and present life of society arises, giving at the same time a forecast as regards its future, both conceived in the same spirit as the above-mentioned interpretation in natural sciences. Anarchy, therefore, appears as a constituent part of the new philosophy, and that is why Anarchists come in contact, on so many points, with the greatest thinkers and poets of the present day.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Philosophy, Past, Names

  "Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal". Lecture by Peter Kropotkin, translated by Harry Lyman Koopman, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. 1898.

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• The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Metaphor, Instant

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in promoting an evolution doctrine as regards the mechanical formation of the solar system... but his constant dread of persecution, both from Catholics and Protestants, led him steadily to veil his thoughts and even to suppress them. ...Since Roger Bacon, perhaps, no great thinker had been so completely abased and thwarted by theological oppression.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Catholic, Veils, Half

  "A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom". Book by Andrew Dickson White, Vol.1, Ch.1: The Visible Universe, p. 57, 1896.

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• Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Important, Lasts, Teach

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 85e), 1980.

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• The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form.

  Maimonides

  Passion, Men, Ideas

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.426, Aeterna Press

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• Precisely because Galilean science is, in the formation of its concepts, the technic of a specific Lebenswelt , it does not and cannot transcend this Lebenswelt . It remains essentially within the basic experiential framework and within the universe of ends set by this reality.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Reality, Doe, Ends

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.168, Routledge

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• This whole which is visible in different ways in bodies, as far as formation, constitution, appearance, colors and other properties and common qualities, is none other than the diverse face of the same substance a changeable, mobile face, subject to decay, of an immobile, permanent and eternal being.

  Giordano Bruno

  Color, Quality, Decay

  "Cause, Principle, and Unity". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce what exists and thus open a path for a new formation of the world.

  Martin Heidegger

  Decay, World, Path

  Martin Heidegger (1987). “Nietzsche”

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