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• So a military force has no constant formation, water has no constant shape: the ability to gain victory by changing and adapting according to the opponent is called genius.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, Water, Victory

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.117, Shambhala Publications

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• Mount Harris is of basaltic formation, but I could not observe any columnar regularity in it, although large blocks are exposed above the ground. The rock is extremely hard and sonorous.

  Charles Sturt

  Block, Rocks, Regularity

  Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.27

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• It’s a way of life to be always texting and when you looks at these texts it really is thoughts in formation. I do studies where I just sit for hours and hours at red lights watching people unable to tolerate being alone. Its as though being along has become a problem that needs to be solved and then technology presents itself as a solution to this problem…Being alone is not a problem that needs to be solved. The capacity for solitude is a very important human skill.

  Sherry Turkle

  Technology, Light, Skills

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• Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.

  Dallas Willard

  Spiritual, Spiritual Formation, Matter

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• What you see happening right now with some of the consolidation is all about more spectrum and capital formation that give you the scale, scope and resources to invest in that 3G world.

  Steve Largent

  Sports, Giving, World

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• And the formation of man is the most pressing problem facing humanity.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Men, Humanity, Problem

  Bruce Chatwin (1990). “What Am I Doing Here?”, p.91, Penguin

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• Historically, the Old Charges fall into three groups. The first comprises the two earliest versions, the Regius MS of c.1390 and the Cook MS of c.1420...The second, and largest, group begins with the Grand Lodge No. 1 MS, dated 25 December 1583, and covers all the versions datable before the formation of the premier Grand Lodge in 1717. The third group comprises manuscript and printed versions produced after 1717, the majority of which appear to have been produced as antiquarian curiosities.

  John Hamill

  Fall, Two, Curiosity

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In point of fact there are a certain number of values and of forces which are of decisive importance in our world civilization: the primacy of production, the continual growth of the power of the State and the formation of the National State, the autonomous development of technics, etc. These, among others - far more than the ownership of the means of production or any totalitarian doctrine - are the constitutive elements of the modern world. So long as these elements continue to be taken for granted, the world is standing still.

  Jacques Ellul

  Taken, Mean, Civilization

  "The Presence of the Kingdom" by Jacques Ellul, translated by Olive Wyon, Seabury paperback, (p. 33), 1967.

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• This light unglues the formation and structure of the being for a certain period of time. It will reassemble automatically.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Structure

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