#mould

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak. ↗

— William Godwin

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I don't think I've ever been moulded but I think I am always learning. ↗

— Delta Goodrem

#am #been #ever #i #i am

No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea. ↗

— Kim Jong Il

#better #capitalist #class #come #destroys

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded. ↗

— Hervey Allen

#legends #material #moulded #recorded

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#conscious #less #lives #mainly #mould

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. ↗

— Willa Cather

#art #away #element #elusive #hurrying

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#i #imprison #mould #our #refuse

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#escape #fact #first #five #i

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice. ↗

— Quintilian

#contemplation #exercised #matter #mind #moulded

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking? ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

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