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• [A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right.

  H. L. Mencken

  Reading, Letters, May

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• Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means more dollars in his pocket, dollars that he can spend if inflation doesn't consume them first. But dollars in his pocket won't buy him clean streets or an adequate police force or good schools or clean air and water. Handing money back to the private sector in tax cuts and starving the public sector is a formula for producing richer and richer consumers in filthier and filthier communities. If we stick to that formula we shall end up in affluent misery.

  John W. Gardner

  Mean, School, Cutting

  John W. Gardner (1971). “The Recovery of Confidence”

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• The entire history of baby formula has been the history of one overlooked nutrient after another...and still to this day babies fed on the most "nutritionally complete" formula fail to do as
  well as babies fed human milk. Even more than margarine, formula stands as the ultimate test product of nutritionism and a fair index of its hubris.

  Michael Pollan

  Baby, Tests, Milk

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• President Bush had an opportunity tonight to say, 'Look ... things aren't going very well in Iraq and we did make some miscalculations and misjudgments there,' but he is so stubbornly arrogant - he just sticks with that same formula that he has in talking about the war on Iraq that just defies the reality that we all see on the ground.

  Mike McCurry

  War, Opportunity, Reality

  "Debating the first debate" by Dan Lothian, Dana Bash, John King, Candy Crowley Richard Shumate and Ed Payne, edition.cnn.com. October 3, 2004.

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• Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.

  Mario Andretti

  Morning, Watches, Nascar

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• There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts, and are the formulas which supersede all histories.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Intuition, Essentials

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2634, Delphi Classics

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• I use mainly products by Dermalogica. They have specialized formulas to target specific skin needs, which I like. It works well for my sensitive skin.

  Joanne Froggatt

  Skins, Needs, Target

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• In the music industry, it's pretty easy to make an album just because you want to keep going, like, 'This is the formula.' But the formula is your life. You have to live your life and you have to live it well - that's the formula.

  Angel Olsen

  Live Your Life, Albums, Want

  Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. January 24, 2014.

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• I don't like making didactic, pedagogical documentaries based on standard formulas of narration: I'm only interested in the ambitious French tradition of the documentaire de création where the film, if successful, is not about something but that something itself. The goal is to incorporate areas of risk and paradox that we associate with cinematic art.

  Damian Pettigrew

  Art, Successful, Goal

  Le Parisien, May, 2003.

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• For many years, my formula has been to love yourself, move your body and to watch portion size. But the No. 1 thing is to love and value yourself, no matter what you've been through.

  Richard Simmons

  Moving, Love You, Years

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• With subjectivity in philosophy, anarchism in politics goes hand in hand. Already during Luther's lifetime, unwelcome and unacknowledged disciples had developed the doctrine of Anabaptism, which for a time dominated the city of Munster. The Anabaptists repudiated all law since they held that good men will be guided at every moment by the Holy Spirit, who can not be bound by formulas. From this premise they arrive at communism and sexual promiscuity; they were therefore exterminated after a heroic resistance.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Men, Hands

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• Nothing can be more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance on mathematical symbols; for the student is only too apt to take the easier course, and consider the formula not the fact as the physical reality.

  Lord Kelvin

  Reality, Progress, Facts

  "Treatise on Natural Philosophy". Book by Lord Kelvin and Peter Guthrie Tait, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1867.

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• Crowds are influenced mainly by images produced by the judicious employment of words and formulas

  Gustave Le Bon

  Employment, Crowds

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• There is this tendency to think that if you could only find the magic way, then you could become a poet. "Tell me how to become a poet. Tell me what to do." . . . What makes you a poet is a gift for language, an ability to see into the heart of things, and an ability to deal with important unconscious material. When all these things come together, you're a poet. But there isn't one little gimmick that makes you a poet. There isn't any formula for it.

  Erica Jong

  Heart, Thinking, Magic

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• I look for stories that tell transformative, emotional journeys, have big emotional worlds, feel very relevant and true to the times we're living in - even though they might be of a different time - have a sense of real intimacy with larger forces at work, where there's some kind of social injustice and inequity happening that needs to be conquered or addressed. I find historically that's the formula for a lot of successful operas.

  Jake Heggie

  Real, Successful, Emotional

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• There can be no formula in arts. Formulas are for factory mass productions. There are no discoveries in already discovered formulas.

  Signe Baumane

  Art, Discovery, Factories

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• By using formula in filmmaking we are admitting that film is not art.

  Signe Baumane

  Art, Admitting, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I guess for major film industry players a film is a money making devise, so using formulas assures them that their investment will have returns. A lot of big studio films are created by formulas and committees, stripping away any individuality or personality from the work so that they could appeal to most everyone on there planet but to no one in particular.

  Signe Baumane

  Player, Personality, Individuality

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The greatest DJ is one who can live within the formula and make it sound .... as if he producing and pulling the music all by himself.

  Dick Biondi

  Sound, Pulling, Ifs

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• High-end boutiques aren't putting small staple stores out of business. What's putting small staple stores out of business is formula retail.

  Chicken John

  Retail, Ends, Stores

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We hope to explain the entire universe in a single, simple formula that you can wear on your T-shirt.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Simple, T Shirt, Shirts

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• Teach principles not formulas.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Principles, Teach

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• I enjoyed like nothing else working in pure math, discovering new formulas.

  Jerry McNerney

  Math, Discovering, Enjoyed

  "Rookie in Congress touts science / Bay Area lawmaker stakes out issues, watches his back" by Zachary Coile, www.sfgate.com. May 14, 2007.

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• When I started go-karting at the age of six, I always dreamt of becoming a Formula One driver.

  Heikki Kovalainen

  Age, Becoming, Six

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• Everybody who knows Formula 1 knows McLaren and knows that it is the greatest team in Formula 1.

  Sergio Perez

  Team, Formula 1, Knows

  Interview with James Galloway, www.skysports.com. October 1, 2013.

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