Quotes with formation

  • Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.

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  • Frank Moore Colby Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Dean William R. Inge Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Hosea Ballou Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • Thornton Wilder I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Albert Einstein I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Karl Marx Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Arthur Levitt Our purpose, as we face these challenges, remains clear - fair and orderly markets that allow for efficient capital formation, while protecting the interests of investors.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Aristotle The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • John Dewey The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Wayne Calloway We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.
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