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A nation is all the individuals of same blood, forming by their cohesion a natural related collective being with it s own organs and state which are social classes and the State and the same soul, which is nationality.
a.c. cuza— From Na?ionalitatea în art? ("Nationality in Art"), Bucure?ti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
The accent of conviction is made up of a mixture of faith, power, and love combined, forming a characteristic which is at once simple, pious, and grand, redolent of inspiration and sanctity. Here are no fabulous joys and woes; no hollow, fantastic sentimentalities; no wire-drawn refinings, either in thought or feeling; the passion that is traced before us has glowed in a living heart; the opinion he utters has risen in his own understanding, and'been a light to his own steps.
— Thomas Carlyle, p. 479. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
— Alexander Hamilton, 1787-06-26 (Quotes)
When a poet's mind isperfectlyequipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.
— 1921Selected Essays (1932),'The Metaphysical Poets'.
You may call it coalition, you may call it the accidental and fortuitous concurrence of atoms?but when gentlemen are in the habit of finding themselves in the same Lobby, it is not unnatural to suppose that they may, under certain circumstances, be ready to unite themselves together for the purpose of forming an Administration and becoming responsible for the opinions that they severally entertain.
Palmerston, HenryJohnTemple, 3rd Viscount— 1858 Speech on the rumoured Palmerston-Disraeli coalition, 5 Mar.
With Thee in shady solitudes I walk,With Thee in busy, crowded cities talk;In every creature own Thy forming power,In each event Thy providence adore.
anna letitia barbauld— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 433.
The beautiful in nature is the unmarred result of God's first creative or forming will,and ..the beautiful in art is the result of an unmistaken working of man in accordance with the beautiful in nature.
william barnes— Thoughts on Beauty in Art- Article in MacMillan's Magazine 1861.
Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain.
richard cecil— Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895, pg. 9)
I was well on the way to forming my present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States; it is a beautiful fraud that has been imposed on the people for years, whose practitioners exchange gelded promises for the most valuable thing their victims own: their votes. And who benefits the most? The lawyers.
shirley chisholm— P. 37. (Unbought and Unbossed (1970))
You are as like the forming of God as ever people were... you are at the edge of promises and prophecies.
Oliver Cromwell— Speech to the "Barebones Parliament" (July 1653)
You look like a faded picture / I see the cracks forming on your skinFor smoking all my stash / For burning all my cash.. It's all over town that the sun's / Going down on the days / Of your easy life"
Noel Gallagher— Force of Nature
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities — the political, the religious, the educational authorities — who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing — forming in our minds — their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself.
timothy leary— How to Operate Your Brain (1994), a guided meditation spoken by Timothy Leary and set to music.
The Puerto Ricans forming the ranks of the gallant 65th Infantry on the battlefields of Korea … are writing a brilliant record of achievement in battle and I am proud indeed to have them in this command. I wish that we might have many more like them.
Douglas MacArthur— Quoted on 12 February 1951 in Tokyo
The great work of the present for every man, and every organization of men, who would improve social conditions, is the work of education the propagation of ideas. It is only as it aids this that anything else can avail. And in this work every one who can think may aid first by forming clear ideas himself, and then by endeavoring to arouse the thought of those with whom he comes in contact.
henry george— Ch. 21 : Conclusion
Gaskell... had to keep his stately soldiers upright and uniformly oriented... by crafting the brain and spinal cord from an arthropod digestive tube, while forming a completely new gut below. ...Gaskell thought that his move would rescue the theory of linear progress, with its necessary transition of arthropod into vertebrate, from the absurdities of the old inversion theory.
stephen jay gould— "Brotherhood by Inversion", p. 327
How ironic. In order to avoid the "nutty" theory of inversion, Gaskell invented the even odder notion of stomachs turning into brains with new guts forming below. No wonder then, that later biologists cast a plague on both speculative houses and opted instead for the obvious alternative: arthropods and vertebrates do not share the same anatomical plan at all, but rather represent two separate evolutionary developments of similar complexity from a much simpler common ancestor that grew neither a discrete gut nor a central nerve cord.
stephen jay gould— "Brotherhood by Inversion", p. 327
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
Alexander Hamilton— 26 June 1787
Now in all of us, however constituted, but to a degree the greater in proportion as we are intense and sensitive and subject to diversified temptations, and to the greatest possible degree if we are decidedly psychopathic, does the normal evolution of character chiefly consist in the straightening out and unifying of the inner self. The higher and the lower feelings, the useful and the erring impulses, begin by being a comparative chaos within us they must end by forming a stable system of functions in right subordination. Unhappiness is apt to characterize the period of order-making and struggle.
william james— Lecture VIII, "The Divided Self, and the Process of its Unification"
It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
john maynard keynes— Book 4, Chapter 12, Section 2, p. 148
Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.
antoine lavoisier— p.xiv (Elements of Chemistry (1790))
Contemporary feminists, who are generally poor or narrowly trained scholars, insist on viewing history as a weepy scenario of male oppression and female victimization. But it is more accurate to see men, driven by sexual anxiety away from their mothers, forming group alliances by male bonding to create complex structures of society, art, science and technology.
camille paglia— p. 23 (Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992))
By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?" What more valuable for the elevation of our own character?
Plutarch— Timoleon.
The mind of man can never be wholly barren. Through our whole lives we are subject to successive impressions; for, either new ideas are continually flowing in, or traces of the old ones are marked deeper. If, therefore, you be not acquiring good principles be assured that you are acquiring bad ones; if you be not forming virtuous habits you are, how insensibly soever to yourselves, forming vicious ones…
joseph priestley— Vol. I : The Dedication (March 1772)
In life we only try to produce, to win, and enjoy the more we can; in science, to discoverand invent the more we can; in religion, to dominate (or rule over) on the greatest number of people we can; whereas the forming of the character, the further development (or in-dept analysis, "appronfondissement", Fr.) of the faculties of the intelligence ("les facultés de l'intelligence", Fr.), the refinement of the consciousness and of the heart, are considered incidental (or subordinate) things.
african spir— p. 52 - (Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937))
Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations... In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others.
alexis de tocqueville— Book Two, Chapter V
The first idea which all this impresses upon us is, that the formation of bodies in space is still and at present in progress . We live at a time when many have been formed and many are still forming.
— p.20 (Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844))
Heav'n forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle II, line 249
Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations...In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others.
alexis de tocqueville— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America.
