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Letter "F" » formations
«Education has for its object the formation of character»
«Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character»
Author: Hosea Ballou
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Education
| Keywords:
commenced, commences, formation, formations, hearsay, knee, spoken, tends, The Mother
«It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.»
Author: Joseph Paul Goebbels
(Politician)
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absolute, formation, formations, public opinion, supervise, supervised, The Absolute, The State
«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.»
«The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.»
Author: Ruth Bernhard
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cosmic, dissolving, formations, possessing, radiant, radiant energy, The Clouds, walk-on
«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.»
Author: Thornton Wilder
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cases, childhood, convinced, exceptional, extraordinary, formation, formations, gifts, in one case, one form
«The future of a movement is conditioned by the fanaticism, yes, the intolerance, with which its adherents uphold it as the sole correct movement, and push it past other formations of a similar sort»
Author: Adolf Hitler
(Chancellor)
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adherent, adherents, conditioned, fanaticism, formations, Future of, intolerance, movement, push, similar, sole, upheld, uphold, upholding, upholds
«GEOLOGY, n. The science of the earth's crust --to which, doubtless, will be added that of its interior whenever a man shall come up garrulous out of a well. The geological formations of the globe already noted are catalogued thus: The Primary, or lower one, consists of rocks, bones or mired mules, gas-pipes, miners' tools, antique statues minus the nose, Spanish doubloons and ancestors. The Secondary is largely made up of red worms and moles. The Tertiary comprises railway tracks, patent pavements, grass, snakes, mouldy boots, beer bottles, tomato cans, intoxicated citizens, garbage, anarchists, snap-dogs and fools.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed. This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«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.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
arises, closely, formation, formations, sets, solution, tasks, the matter, The Process, The Task
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