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«The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and the establishment of the new, constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism»
Author: John C. Calhoun
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constitutes, establishment, fanaticism, fierce, formation, formations, The Establishment, transition
«The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
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continuous, formation, formations, Ready made, the self
«The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).»
Author: Michel Foucault
(Historian, Philosopher, Scholar)
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analyses, assumptions, conventional, dissipate, dissipated, dissipates, dissipating, evaluate, evaluated, examine, formation, formations, habitual, institutions, mould, participate, playing field, political institutions, re-examine, shake up
«Though our character is formed by circumstances, our own desires can do much to shape those circumstances; and what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of free will is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our o»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
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ennoble, ennobled, ennobles, ennobling, formation, formations, formed, free will, inspirit, inspiriting, Real Character