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• I also have a brand-new prescription for gunfire jitters: When the shooting gets loud, proceed to the nearest wooden staircase. Run up and down a few times, making sure to stumble at least once. What with the scratches and the noise of running and falling, you won't even be able to hear the shooting, much less worry about it. Yours truly has put this magic formula to use, with great success!

  Anne Frank

  Running, Fall, Worry

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.180, Bantam

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• Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex.

  M. Scott Peck

  Life, Appreciation, Thinking

  M. Scott Peck (1998). “Further Along the Road Less Traveled: The Unending Journey Towards Spiritual Growth”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient.

  Robert Breault

  Winning, Making A Difference, Fundamentals

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• The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Religious, Wine, Religion

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• All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.

  David Guetta

  Artist, Tomorrow, Bigs

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

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• We must rely less on spreadsheets and funding formulas and more on common sense.

  Kenny Guinn

  Common Sense, Funding, Rely

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• It's not instant composing; it's not following any kind of a formula. All you do is hear music in your head and reproduce it.

  Lennie Tristano

  Kind, Composing, Instant

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• A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts - a "bundle of facts." Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the "law" because they act in that way.

  Joseph McCabe

  Law, Atheism, Way

  "The Existence of God". Book by Joseph McCabe, 1913.

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• The top golfers in the world are like Formula One cars when it comes to their swings.

  Stuart Appleby

  Swings, Car, World

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

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• From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken formula through which Homeland Security grant money currently is allocated to our first responders.

  Vito Fossella

  Broken, Needs, Firsts

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• . . . She knew only that if she did or said thus-and-so, men would unerringly respond with the complimentary thus-and-so. It was like a mathematical formula and no more difficult, for mathematics was the one subject that had come easy to Scarlett in her schooldays.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Math, Men, Easy

  Margaret Mitchell (1975). “Gone With the Wind”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Trust me, there is no formula for most things that are not math.

  Daniel Pinkwater

  Math, Trust Me

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• It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down.' Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory.

  David Stockman

  Way, Sides, Kind

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• You know that scenario where roses are red, leaves are green, I love arguing that. ‘Why should they be?’. I hate rules and formulas. That’s so boring. It’s the opposite of creativity. Rules are ridiculous things that are meant to be broken.

  Philip Treacy

  Hate, Creativity, Opposites

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• Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Backdrop, Has Beens, Formula One

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• There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.

  Akio Morita

  Secret, Ingredients, Responsible

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 130), 1986.

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• In Luke ... receiving the Holy Spirit is the way that those who already believe in Christ are empowered to serve Him. .... It's more important to focus on how one lives the Spirit-filled life than on a rigid formula for receiving it.... Receiving the Spirit in the Lucan sense is not a one-time event, but an ongoing way of life.

  Larry Christenson

  Believe, Spirit Filled Life, Focus

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• I think God’s hope and plan for us is pretty simple to figure out. For those who resonate with formulas, here it is: add your whole life, your loves, your passions, and your interests together with what God said He wants us to be about, and that’s your answer.

  Bob Goff

  Love You, Passion, Simple

  Bob Goff (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.143, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It will be seen that the formula - 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law' has nothing to do with 'Do as you please.' It is much more difficult to comply with the Law of Thelema than to follow out slavishly a set of dead regulations.

  Aleister Crowley

  Law, Regulation, Difficult

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Eight Lectures on Yoga”, p.18, Lulu Press, Inc

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• We've got some very strong and robust ladies, but, when your life is at risk, I think the strain of that in a competitive situation will tell when you're trying to win. The mental stress I think would be pretty difficult for a lady to deal with in a practical fashion. I just don't think they have aptitude to win a Formula 1 race.

  Stirling Moss

  Fashion, Strong, Stress

  "Sir Stirling Moss: women lack the mental aptitude to compete in F1". www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2013.

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• But suppose, asks the student of the professor, we follow all your structural rules for writing, what about that something else that brings the book alive? What is the formula for that? The formula for that is not included in the curriculum.

  Fannie Hurst

  Book, Writing, Alive

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• War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula

  George S. Patton

  Art, Military, War

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• Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in the hybrid-rather than be represented by plus or minus signs, and put several seasons into throwing doubt upon the concept of immutable hypothetical units of inheritance concocted to account for selected results.

  Charles Thom

  Life, Science, Ideas

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• Rewrite formula: 2nd Draft = 1st Draft - 10%.

  Stephen King

  Writing

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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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