Quotes About Formation

Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much later than other continents because of the interruption of Africa's own historical development by the colonization of Africa by Europe.

The key problem is to find out why that sector of society of the past, which I would not hesitate to call capitalist, should have lived as if in a bell jar, cut off from the rest; why was it not able to expand and conquer the whole of society?... [Why was it that] a significant rate of capital formation was possible only in certain sectors and not in the whole market economy of the time?

each of us becomes what we see, what we listen to, and what we read.

No aceptamos el azar en nuestro día a día cuando es demasiado caprichoso. Pero en cambio lo aceptamos en el universo y en la formación de la vida, que depende de una conjunción de elementos infinítamente más caprichosa.

The Lake is young as natural lakes go, no more than four thousand years old, and it is simpler to say what did not form it than to say what did.

Great styles are sufficient for canonicity because they possess the power of contamination, and contamination is the pragmatic test for canon formation.

With my own hands, I had to construct this thing I called 'I' –or, rather, make the things that constituted me.

As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up.

For you to be here now, trillions of drifting atoms had somehow to assemble in an intricate and curiously obliging manner to create you.

In just 200 million years, possibly less, the Earth was essentially formed, though still molten and subject to constant bombardment from all the debris that remained floating about. At

The brain takes a long time to form completely. A teenager's brain is only about 80 percent finished

supernova explosions could have generated the necessary heat to create the heavy elements that led to the formation of rocky planets and, eventually, us. (credit

All over the inchoate solar system, the same was happening. Colliding dust grains formed larger and larger clumps. Eventually the clumps grew large enough to be called planetesimals.

Mars-sized object slammed into Earth, blowing out enough material to create the Moon from the debris.

Everything has been created twice once on a mental plain and once on a physical plain.

In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.

A compact defense has always been the basis of Italy's team.

the real driver of state formation is violence or the threat of violence, making the social contract an efficient rather than a final cause.

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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Where do our habits come from? he thought. What secret factory produces our habits, both good and bad? Ellen Magnusson

The Bible is primarily a book not of information but of formation, not merely a book to be analyzed, scrutinized, and discussed but a sacred book to nurture us, to unify our hearts and minds, and to serve as a constant source of contemplation

We need centers where people are trained in true discernment of the signs of the times. They cannot offer just an intellectual training. Deep spiritual formation is required, involving the whole person—body, mind, and heart. Formation in the mind of Christ, "who did not cling to power but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, who did not cling" (Phil. 2:6-8)

Deep spiritual formation is required, involving the whole person—body, mind, and heart. Formation in the mind of Christ, "who did not cling to power but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, who did not cling" (Phil. 2:6-8) is not what most seminaries are about. But to the degree that such formation is being sought after and realized, there is hope for the church of the twenty-first century.