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• I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much taken away from us during slavery, so the 60s gave us a chance, because of the civil rights movement, to kind of re-examine and make some sort of formal connection to our African-ness.

  Herbie Hancock

  Taken, Thinking, Rights

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• The conviction that the best way to prepare children for a harsh, rapidly changing world is to introduce formal instruction at anearly age is wrong. There is simply no evidence to support it, and considerable evidence against it. Starting children early academically has not worked in the past and is not working now.

  David Elkind

  Children, Past, Support

  David Elkind (1993). “Images of the Young Child: Collected Essays on Development and Education”, National Assn for the Education

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• I think always my interest in making movies is to have something really technical mixed with something that was not so formal...something free.

  Michel Gondry

  Thinking, Interest

  "Seth Rogen, Director Michel Gondry, Evan Goldberg and Producer Neal Moritz Interview GREEN HORNET". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. June 21, 2010.

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• We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.

  Aristotle

  Definitions, Next, Moral

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.38, Wordsworth Editions

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• [Mujahedeen], by the way, don't represent Islam in any formal sense. They're not imams or sheiks. They are self-appointed warriors for Islam.

  Edward Said

  Warrior, Self, Islam

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Meditation is not something restricted to times of formal seated meditation; it is most fundamentally an attitude of being-a resting in and as being. Once you get the feel of it, you will be able to tune into it more and more often during your daily life. Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.

  Adyashanti

  Attitude, Meditation, Tunes

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• Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to himself, except his lucidity, seems unforeseeable to him. What rule, then, could emanate from that unreasonable order? The only truth that might seem instructive to him is not formal: it comes to life and unfolds in men. The absurd mind cannot so much expect ethical rules at the end of its reasoning as, rather, illustrations and the breath of human lives.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Illustration, Order

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.68, Vintage

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• Patricia Smith is one of the best poets around and has been for a long time. Her Blood Dazzler is full of capacious soul and formal inventiveness: the compassion and artfulness necessary to capture the tragedies and Tragedy of Katrina. Smith is herself a storm of beautiful, frightening talent. Her words will wash you or wash you away. I consider this new book a major literary event.

  Terrance Hayes

  Beautiful, Book, Compassion

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• Instead of pressing, with the foremost of the crowd, into the palace of Constantinople, Libanius calmly expected his arrival at Antioch; withdrew from court on the first symptoms of coldness and indifference; required a formal invitation for each visit; and taught his sovereign an important lesson, that he might command the obedience of a subject, but that he must deserve the attachment of a friend.

  Edward Gibbon

  Attachment, History, Important

  Edward Gibbon, William George Smith (1857). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.175

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• There's a whole range of areas that we'll be looking at, so I'm not at this very early stage going to specify any particular areas. As you will know, there will be a limit to how far we can go in terms of a formal free trade agreement until we've actually left the European Union. I think there is much that we [with Donald Trump] can do in the interim in terms of looking at how we can remove some of the barriers to trade in a number of areas.

  Theresa May

  Thinking, Numbers, Agreement

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• When I get up in the morning, I stay nude for three or four hours. If I really feel like getting formal, I'll put on board shorts.

  Iggy Pop

  Morning, Boards, Three

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• Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and paint it as hewill, remains clay, separated by artifice, and not by nature from the commonest brick or sun-dried clod.

  Thomas Huxley

  Simple, Bricks, Clay

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2008). “A Scientific Education”, p.99, Lulu.com

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• There's no question that increased formal credentials can give you an advantage. The question is, is it the best advantage you can buy with the amount of money and time you're going to spend?

  Michael Ellsberg

  Giving, Advantage, Credentials

  "8 Steps to Getting What You Want… Without Formal Credentials" by Tim Ferriss, Michael Ellsberg, tim.blog. September 8, 2011.

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• [Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons.

  Raymond S. Moore

  School, Creative, Parent

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• Pound described poetry as original research in language, and just as formal experiment in poetry has to try things and has to go too far, so does experiment with writing about politics in poetry and what the politics of poetry is.

  Robert Hass

  Writing, Trying, Doe

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, "Do you think the Holy Dove could fly down with only one wing?

  Horace Walpole

  Thinking, Hands, Wings

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• If you look at countries like South Africa, where you had a black majority, there have been efforts to tax and help that black majority, but it hasn't come in the form of a formal reparations program.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Effort, Black

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion, and teach us to seek our well-being in the formation of the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Hero, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2907, Delphi Classics

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• The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Dog, Party, Names

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.128, Faber & Faber

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• I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  School, Ethics, Impressed

  "Double Star". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1956.

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• Who is telling us about the false self today? Who is even equipped tell us? Many clergy have not figured this out for themselves, since even ministry can be a career decision or an attraction to "religion" more than the result of an encounter with God or themselves. Formal religious status can maintain the false self rather effectively, especially if there are a lot of social payoffs like special respect, titles, salaries, a good self image, or nice costumes. It is no accident that the religious "Pharisees" became the symbolic bad guys in the Jesus story.

  Richard Rohr

  Religious, Jesus, Nice

  Richard Rohr (2013). “Immortal Diamond: The search for our true self”, p.35, SPCK

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• I remember that - you know, I didnt receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Art, Stories, Cafes

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• When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually any subject if I have a serious interest in it.

  Dean Koontz

  Class, Serious, Teach

  Dean Koontz: The Official Website, June 16, 2006.

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• The establishment of formal standards for proofs about programs... and the proposal that the semantics of a programming language may be defined independently of all processors for that language, by establishing standards of rigor for proofs about programs in the language, appears to be novel.

  Robert W. Floyd

  May, Language, Proposal

  "Assigning Meanings to Programs" by Robert W. Floyd, published in "Proceedings of Symposium on Applied Mathematics", Volume 19 (pp. 19-20), 1967.

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• A narrative thread gives people permission to think about other things whilst being carried by its flow. It does not mean that one has to compromise one's vision, or question formal concerns. It's just being more subtle and clever by having one accessible thread.

  Sally Potter

  Clever, Mean, Thinking

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