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• Biot, who assisted Laplace in revising it [The Mécanique Céleste] for the press, says that Laplace himself was frequently unable to recover the details in the chain of reasoning, and if satisfied that the conclusions were correct, he was content to insert the constantly recurring formula, 'Il est àisé a voir' [it is easy to see].

  W. W. Rouse Ball

  Science, Details, Easy

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• A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.

  Donald Knuth

  Science, Technology, Mathematics

  "Digital Typography". Book by Donald Knuth, 1999.

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• I was an impostor, the worthy associate of a brigand, &c., &c., and all this for an atom of chlorine put in the place of an atom of hydrogen, for the simple correction of a chemical formula!

  Auguste Laurent

  Science, Simple, Atoms

  David M. Knight, Auguste Laurent (1998). “The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Chemical method”, Routledge

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• The feeling of understanding is as private as the feeling of pain. The act of understanding is at the heart of all scientific activity; without it any ostensibly scientific activity is as sterile as that of a high school student substituting numbers into a formula. For this reason, science, when I push the analysis back as far as I can, must be private.

  Percy Williams Bridgman

  Pain, Heart, School

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• The American success formula is first to get a home of your own, then to get a car of your own so you don't have to stay in that home of your own.

  Sam Levenson

  Funny, Humorous, Home

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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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• Real faith means holding ourselves open to the unconditional mystery which we encounter in every sphere of our life and which cannot be comprised in any formula. Real faith means the ability to endure life in the face of this mystery.

  Martin Buber

  Real, Mean, Spheres

  Martin Buber (1997). “Israel and the World: Essays in a Time of Crisis”, p.49, Syracuse University Press

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• How do you spell peace? P-R-A-Y-E-R! Anything you believe you need is available to you through prayer. We are not talking here about a magic formula of proper and distinct words. Oh no! We are talking about opening your heart and your mouth, saying what's on your mind, knowing that once you do, the answer will be revealed.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Prayer, Believe, Heart

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Mar 31, 2013

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• But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than to a positive attribute conducive to joyful and creative living. This kind of health will not rule out and may even generate another form of ill, the boredom which is the penalty of a formula of life where nothing is left unforeseen.

  Rene Dubos

  Boredom, Goal, Creative

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• I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Inspiration, Years, People

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 July 2010

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• I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.

  Thelonious Monk

  Music, Pieces, Jazz

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• If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is a formula for dictatorship, not democracy... But the American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country.

  Michael Parenti

  Country, Fall, Government

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• The world is by no means averse to religion. In fact, it is devoted to it with a passion. It will buy any recipe for salvation as long as that formula leaves the responsibility for cooking up salvation firmly in human hands. The world is drowning in religion. But it is scared out of its wits by any mention of the grace that takes the world home gratis.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Mean, Responsibility, Passion

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• Both Faith and Terror are instruments for the elimination of individual self-respect. Terror crushes the autonomy of self-respect, where Faith obtains its more or less voluntary surrender. In both cases, the result of the elimination of individual autonomy is - automatism. Both Faith and Terror reduce the human entity to a formula that can be manipulated at will.

  Eric Hoffer

  Crush, Self, Religion

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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