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• It is simply that in all life on earth as in all good agriculture there are no short-cuts that by-pass Nature and the nature of man himself and animals, trees, rocks and streams. Every attempt at a formula, a short-cut, a panacea, always ends in negation and destruction.

  Louis Bromfield

  Cutting, Animal, Men

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• My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Thinking, Average, Tunes

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• Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant.

  A. Edward Newton

  Happiness, Discovery, White

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• Ancient wisdom offers . . . a simple yet profound formula to guide everyone who leads, anyone who aspires to leadership: 'Do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly.'

  Wayne D. Dosick

  Leadership, Simple, Profound

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• Become aware of God, in whose presence you are while you pray . . . Then take a formula of prayer and recite it with perfect attention both to the words you are saying and to the Person to whom you are saying them.

  John Climacus

  Spiritual, Prayer, Perfect

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• I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Ends, Chiefs

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• A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.

  H. L. Mencken

  Artist, Trying, Incompetence

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.564, Vintage

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• No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and clichés and verbal formulas supplied to them by the leaders.

  Edward Bernays

  Wise, Believe, Ideas

  "Propaganda". Book by Edward Bernays, 1928.

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• Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.

  Philip Yancey

  Matter, Individual

  Philip Yancey (2010). “The Bible Jesus Read: Why the Old Testament Matters”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet new people, have new experiences. When I see Hollywood formulas mindlessly repeated, a little something dies inside of me: I have lost two hours to boors who insist on telling me stories I have heard before.

  Roger Ebert

  New Experiences, Two, People

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• There are no perfect life plan formulas. It’s a roller coaster with various exit ramps.

  Jason Landry

  Perfect, Exit, Roller Coaster

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• Louis Kelso's formula sounds like Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The whole theory sounds crazy. But, then, one may recall, they said all that of Copernicus too.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Wisdom, Crazy, Vegetables

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• A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which has recognized its ethos, and come to terms with the past and the present, with religion and science. With modernism and mysticism, with materialism and spirituality; a society free of tension, a society rich in culture. Such a society cannot come with hocus-pocus formulas and with fraud. It has to flow from the depth of a divine search.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Powerful, Past, Ethos

  "My Dearest Daughter: A letter from the Death Cell". Book by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, p. 15, 2007.

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• My kids are fanatical about 'Scooby-Doo,' and I think that the creators of 'Scooby-Doo' somehow tripped across some kind of magical hypnotic formula that lures children. It's far more fascinating to them than anything else on the air.

  Dave Willis

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  "Dana Snyder and Dave Willis on Aqua Teen Hunger Force's limitless potential". Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. November 11, 2009.

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• Work/Loaf Ratio”...I have spent fourteen years perfecting... I won't bore you with a long-winded explanation of the “W/LR” save to say that it is an algebraic formula of such complex numeric subtlety that it can be understood only by mathematicians and hobos.

  Gary Reilly

  Years, Bores You, Long

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• The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it's purpose, which is quite enough.

  Theophile Gautier

  Art, Philosophical, Purpose

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• Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities of the Schools, all those dreary pictures concocted out of tobacco juice according to time-honored formulas?

  Paul Cezanne

  School, Juice, Tradition

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• TO be racing in Formula One with Mclaren has been the ultimate goal for me. It's a dream come true.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Dream, Goal, Racing

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• Formula One is definitely what I want to do. I would get back in the car today if I could.

  Scott Dixon

  Car, Want, Today

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• Faith is from within; it is the outbreaking of human spontaneity; it is force of soul, grandeur of sentiment, magnanimity, generosity, courage. Its formulas are naturally unintelligible in their literal tenor; for, otherwise, they would represent that which is scientifically known, and would not be the mere provisional clothing of that which is not objectively given, but subjectively projected from the inmost depth of the soul.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Generosity, Soul, Depth

  William Batchelder Greene (1871). “The Blazing Star”, p.6

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• Once one realizes that magick works, and that it works based on scientific factors, the next step is to hone one's skill to reach repetitive success. What makes magick so interesting is that because we are individuals, the combination that unlocks the door to success will vary from person to person, yet the main thrust of the work operates on a specific set of scientific formulas that our scientists are only now beginning to fathom. The mystery, then, lies within each of us.

  Silver RavenWolf

  Lying, Doors, Skills

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• There are many young talents in Brazil. There is a lot of hope in Felipe Massa. It is very difficult to judge him in his first year, but by the end of the end we are going to have a better position how he does in Formula One.

  Emerson Fittipaldi

  Sports, Years, Judging

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• In TV, kid roles are like this: You're either in a couple minutes of an episode playing somebody's kid, or you get in these procedurals where you're crying or you're playing a witness or you're playing a crazy person. Every once in a while you get a big guest star role, but there's a formula to those TV shows.

  Kyle Gallner

  Stars, Couple, Crazy

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

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• I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

  Maggie Nelson

  Art, Thinking, Great Art

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• Dare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.

  Edward Weston

  Courage, Fluid, Dare

  Edward Weston (1988). “Edward Weston”

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