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• Anarchism, in my view, is an expression of the idea that the burden of proof is always on those who argue that authority and domination are necessary. They have to demonstrate, with powerful argument, that that conclusion is correct. If they cannot, then the institutions they defend should be considered illegitimate. How one should react to illegitimate authority depends on circumstances and conditions: there are no formulas.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Views, Expression

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• The truly correct proof is one that strikes a harmonious balance between strength and flexibility. There are plenty of proofs that are technically correct but are messy and inelegant or counterintuitive. But it's not something you can put into words - explaining why a formula is beautiful is like trying to explain why the stars are beautiful.

  Yoko Ogawa

  Beautiful, Stars, Trying

  Yoko Ogawa (2009). “The Housekeeper and the Professor: A Novel”, p.16, Picador

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• The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as the fulfillment of a divine promise. Truth happens in history.

  Peter Kreeft

  Truth, Promise, Scripture

  Peter Kreeft (1992). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.75, Ignatius Press

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• If I ever have a son, and if he wants to follow in my footsteps in Formula 1, my main responsibility will be to point out some of the negatives.

  Jenson Button

  Responsibility, Son, Want

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• God isn't calling us to a lonely, joyless existence with the promise of a delayed reward. God is calling us to live, to love and enjoy the challenge. God's formulas are roadmaps to freedom and peace. God is saying to us: "The only way to live is to be free. So save your heart for love and save your love for persons. Don't ever let any 'thing' own you. Don't let money or fame or power or the pursuit of pleasure put a ring in your nose and lead you around. Love persons and use things." And of course, this is the only way to live, to be free.

  John Powell

  God, Lonely, Heart

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• If there was a simple formula for success and it was easy to follow, everyone would be doing it.

  Edward Johnson, III

  Success, Simple, Would Be

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• I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you can't recall it, forget it).

  Goodman Ace

  Secret, Age, Aging

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• It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum.

  Steve Backley

  Winning, Secret, Accepting

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• If there was one formula for our success,it was that we were constantly studying how to make things work,or how to make them work better.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Study, Ifs

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• People follow proven formulas in any business.

  Phoebe Cates

  People, Proven

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• The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go forth to study beautiful nature, let us try to free our mids from them, let us strive to express ourselves according to our personal temperaments. Time and reflection, moreover, little by little modify our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.

  Paul Cezanne

  Beautiful, Art, Book

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• The best sculptor is the one who can most accurately reproduce in marble the image that he sees before him. The good cook follows the recipe. The pharmacist can utilize the many years of training of the most famous doctors from the best medical schools, if he just knows how to follow a prescription. Someone has said that science is just a collection of successful formulas.

  Sterling W Sill

  School, Successful, Doctors

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• It is for these reasons that I believe we must expand day-care centers and provide other assistance which I have recommended to the Congress. At present, the total facilities of all the licensed day-care centers in the Nation can take care of only 185,000 children. Nearly 500,000 children under 12 must take care of themselves while their mothers work. This, it seems to me, is a formula for disaster.

  John F. Kennedy

  Mother, Children, Believe

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963".

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• And that's the secret. Timing, hard work and smart partners. Using that formula, I've either founded or funded over 80 companies, and none have gone bankrupt. Most have done very well.

  Terry Matthews

  Smart, Hard Work, Secret

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• In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Perception, Stories, World

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail”, p.141, Vintage

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• We are all made of flesh, of matter. And at the end, this matter is dissolved in light, and transformed into energy. It’s the Einstein formula. Energy is nothing but matter that is moving at the speed of light, squared

  Vittorio Storaro

  Moving, Light, Energy

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• The precision of hisskill places his work beyond the tentative and the experimental stage. He is continually searching and exploring both himself and his surroundings. and in this exploration of the realm of places, people and things, contrasts and relationships, Callahan is no respecter of conventional technical formula or code. His delicate sense of pattern is an integral part of his photography and not a thing by itself.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, People, Patterns

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• The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Life, Essence, Captured

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1973). “The First Circle”

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• When we place more value on what other people think of us than on what we think of ourselves, it’s a formula for misery.

  Suzanne Selfors

  Thinking, People, Misery

  Suzanne Selfors (2011). “Mad Love”, p.171, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Rhythm is a means of organizing sound into specific energy formulas to harmonize the mind and body. Chanting, rhythmic breathing and drumming form an ancient technology for directly synchronizing the mind/body complex, creating conditions for psychological and physical healing.

  Layne Redmond

  Healing, Mean, Technology

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• The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?

  Adam C. Engst

  Horse, War, Middle Management

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• The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.

  John Holmes

  Success, Nervous, Trouble

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• For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula he can exploit; for the serious good writer it releases his experiences or emotions from himself and incorporates them into literature, where they belong.

  Northrop Frye

  Writing, People, Giving

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.451, University of Toronto Press

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• Every child is created uniquely by God. God puts a certain formula in the heart of every child. And it is the parents' challenge to figure out the combination. We need to spend time studying, looking, listening, and observing.

  David Jeremiah

  Children, Heart, Parent

  Dr. David Jeremiah (2013). “The Joy of Encouragement: Unlock the Power of Building Others Up”, p.122, Multnomah

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• Joy is the wild card of life; it supersedes every other formula for success. If you can find a way to create joy, you can rise beyond all external factors. If you can play at whatever you are doing, you are the master of your life.

  Alan Cohen

  Play, Joy, Doing You

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