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"A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction." »Rita Mae Brown
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"It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation." »Dr. Rob Gilbert
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"Education has for its object the formation of character." »Herbert Spencer
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"Failure is defined by our reaction to it." »Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue
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"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action." »John Dewey
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"Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life." »William James
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"One must fight for a life of action, not reaction." »Rita Mae Brown
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"I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely." »Andrew Soloman, “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression”, on his belief that grief is profoundly important for the human cond
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"Religion does not belong to God; it belongs to the human reaction against mortality!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army." »Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
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"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed." »Carl Gustav Jung
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"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed." »Jung
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"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." »Carl Jung
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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." »Albert Eintein, World As I See It, 1934 - referring to the military system
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"Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day." »Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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"The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism." »John Calhoun
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"The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge." »Erich Fromm
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"Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance." »W. R. Inge
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"My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. -- (Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U.S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.)" »John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
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"We create our lives a thought at a time. And sometimes, it comes down to changing a thought such as 'Why did this happen to me' into 'There is a divine plan and there is a reason for this, and my choice is to create the most positive reaction I can.'" »Dee Wallace Stone
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"It's not the situation... It's your reaction to the situation." »Robert Conklin
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"History teaches us that people from different religions and ethnic groups can be united around one shared economic goal; equality and prosperity for all. We saw that in the rise of the communist USSR. When the economic policies of the USSR failed, ethnic and national divisions took the forefront and the USSR was dissolved. That can happen to the US if we are hit hard enough by hyperinflation and currency collapse. How the divisions evolve and what forms they will take depend on the type and speed of the government's reaction. It is too early to foresee such events. However, it is important to note that no country is above the socioeconomic laws, US included." »Med Jones
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"For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g
j" anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud
hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld." »Mark Twain, "A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling"
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