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• Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I have become increasingly interested in the study of animals for what they might teach us about man, and the study of man as an animal. I have become increasingly disenchanted with what the thinkers of the so-called Age of Enlightenment tell us about the nature of man, and with what the formal religions and doctrinaire political theorists tell us about the same subject.

  Allan McLeod Cormack

  Kings, Reading, Science

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• For the other end of the spectrum, the 50 to 85 percent of the world's population who are not the recipients of privilege, the world they know is almost certainly worse than any their earlier counterparts knew. It is likely they are worse off materially, despite the technological changes. In substantive as opposed to formal terms, they are more, not less, subject to arbitrary constraints, since the central mechanisms are more pervasive and more efficient. And they bear the brunt of the various kinds of psychic malaise, as well as of the destructiveness of civil wars.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  War, Psychics, Technological Change

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• The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  World, Economy, Late

  Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.126, Verso

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• Baptism does not profit a man outside unity with the Church ... For many heretics also possess this Sacrament but not the fruits of salvation ... The benefits which flow from Baptism are necessarily fruits which belong to the true Church alone. Children Baptized in other communions cease to be members of the Church when, after reaching the age of reason, they make formal profession of heresy, as, for example, by receiving communion in a non-Catholic Church.

  Saint Augustine

  Children, Men, Baptized In

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• Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

  B. F. Skinner

  Teacher, Teaching, Tasks

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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 cafT to the speech at a formal dinner.

  Roland Barthes

  Wine, Snacks, Ornaments

  Roland Barthes (1973). “Mythologies”

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• The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their significance is vital, not formal; it is to be gathered not simply by taking the words and a dictionary, but by considering their origin and the line of their growth.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Government, Essence, Growth

  "Gompers v. United States, 233 U.S. 604, 610". Judicial opinion, 1914.

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• First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but rather that it is a novel formal medium for expressing ideas about methodology. Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

  Hal Abelson

  Ideas, People, Firsts

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• After years of denial and deception, the Philip Morris company has admitted that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases. This formal acknowledgment comes far too late but still we must all welcome it. It can be the beginning of clearing the air.

  William J. Clinton

  Cancer, Air, Years

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.1762, Best Books on

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• I can't imagine a mental life, a spiritual existence, not inextricably bound up with language of a formal, mediated nature. Telling stories, choosing an appropriate language with which to tell the story: This seems to me quintessentially human, one of the great adventures of our species.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Spiritual, Writing, Adventure

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• Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Inspirational, Humble, Ideas

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.194, David R. Godine Publisher

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• All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Character, Effort, Literature

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• It's critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn through play, master social skills and prepare for formal schooling.

  Michael Gove

  Children, School, Play

  "Why should any teacher ever vote Tory?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2010.

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• Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us-simpatico dudes that we are-while playing this complicated song together, might somehow be free and autonomous as well. Tragically, this never quite works out. At best, we can only be free one or two at a time-while the other dudes hold onto the wire. Which is not to say that no one has tried to dispense with wires. Many have, and sometimes it works-but it doesn't feel like jazz when it does. The music simply drifts away into the stratosphere of formal dialectic, beyond our social concerns.

  Dave Hickey

  Song, Nice, Two

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• I cannot feel my legs from the waist down any longer. But who cares? I look good and that's all that matters. And when I die of hypothermia for wearing formal shorts in winter, tell them to put that on my tombstone.

  Eliza Coupe

  Tombstone, Winter, Who Cares

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there's been such a growth in Pentecostalism. And it's a rejection of the much more dour and barren kind of Calvinist worship and also, the very formal Catholic forms of worship.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Thinking, Rejection, Catholic

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• Writing is like paying myself a formal visit.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Writing

  Fernando Pessoa (2017). “The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition”, p.298, Serpent's Tail

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• Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time. To the extent that music has a history that is more than a history of its formal evolution, our feelings must have a history too. Perhaps certain qualities of feeling that found expression in music can be recorded by being notated on paper, have become so remote that we can no longer inhabit them as feelings, can get a grasp of them only after long training in the history and philosophy of music, the philosophical history of music, the history of music as a history of the feeling soul.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Expression

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• ...and motioned me toward a spot next to a middle-aged Moroi in a very formal and very designer black suit. The suit screamed, I'm sorry the queen is dead, and I'm going to look fashionable while showing my grief

  Richelle Mead

  Queens, Sorry, Grief

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.247, Penguin

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• It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower -- and this is the burthen of the curse of Babel.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wise, Spring, Flower

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1852). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.10

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• In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record - it's easy to discover who's in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don't appear on any organization chart.

  Gary Hamel

  Organization, Leader, Hierarchy

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• I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.

  Werner Herzog

  Potato Chips, Potatoes, Restaurants

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• The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities.

  Karl Marx

  Life, Negative, Reason

  Karl Marx (1975). “Early writings”, Vintage

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• Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed upon the new generations out of the realization that the old formal culture-the "New England idea"-could no longer serve.

  Alfred Kazin

  Loss, Ideas, Generations

  Alfred Kazin (2013). “On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.

  Lee Iacocca

  Skills, Essentials, Teach

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.21, Bantam

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