“ Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap. ”
- Ray Kroc- Copy
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“ I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed. ”
- George Allen- Copy
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“ At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. ”
- George Carlin- Copy
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“ The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. ”
- Maya Angelou- Copy
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“ Personally, I thought Curly was the greatest because he was a natural comedian who had no formal training. Whatever he did he made up on the spur of the moment. ”
- Larry Fine- Copy
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“ The oak has long been an enduring and mighty tree. It is truly a part of our national heritage and it merits the formal distinction of America's National Tree. ”
- Bob Goodlatte- Copy
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“ We cannot forget that our flag received its first foreign salute from a Dutch officer, nor that the Province of Friesland gave to our independence its first formal recognition. ”
- Seth Low- Copy
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“ Jazz attracted me because in it I found a formal perfection and instrumental precision that I admire in classical music, but which popular music doesn't have. ”
- Django Reinhardt- Copy
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“ Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. ”
- Jim Rohn- Copy
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“ The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. ”
- Thomas Paine- Copy
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“ Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it. ”
- Stephen Vizinczey- Copy
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“ After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
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“ Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal. ”
- Françoise Sagan- Copy
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“ Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it. ”
- Stephen Vizinczey- Copy
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“ The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
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“ The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education. ”
- Paul E. Gray- Copy
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“ Many friends are full and part-time faculty. I have a lot of respect for formal institutions of advanced learning and the many wonderful men and women who inhabit them. I also know blithering idiocy when I see it among the savants. ”
- Lester Dent- Copy
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“ There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit; we must sleep and therefore we must dream. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
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“ Those who marry God can become domesticated too — it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word "Love" means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and "Ave Maria " like "dearest" is a phrase to open a letter… ”
- Graham Greene- Copy
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“ While you don't need a formal written contract before you get married, I think it's important for both partners to spell out what they expect from each other… There are always plenty of surprises — and lots of give and take — once you're married. ”
- Muriel Fox- Copy
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“ Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local cafe to the speech at a formal dinner. ”
- Roland Barthes- Copy
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“ We had no churches, no religious organizations, so sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe would assemble and sing and pray; sometimes a smaller number, perhaps only two or three. The songs had a few words, but were not formal… ”
- Geronimo- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ In those days, everyone had a piano in their living room. I taught myself how to play by ear. No formal training of any kind. It was something I learned because I wanted to learn, not because I had my knuckles rapped. ”
- Anton LaVey- Copy
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