Formal Quotes
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Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on or motivated to do so. Our system is quite good at producing reliable theorems that can be solidly backed up. It's just that the reliability does not primarily come from mathematicians formally checking formal arguments; it comes from mathematicians thinking carefully and critically about mathematical ideas.
William Thurston
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Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.
Melissa Gilbert
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I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.
Stephanie Tubbs Jones
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I began to write what I called 'rhythms' ie unrhymed pieces with no formal metrical scheme where the rhythm was created by a kind if inner chant... Later I was told I was writing 'free verse' or Vers libre.
Richard Aldington
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I think always my interest in making movies is to have something really technical mixed with something that was not so formal...something free.
Michel Gondry
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Chinese are already more on board than we are. China is the only country that actually discussed in formal government documents how important it is to control the size of your populations if you’re going to limit emissions.
Paul R. Ehrlich
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[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare.
Wallace Stegner
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The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank.
Simon Sinek
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A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used.
David Gries
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I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community in a variety of ways.
Mike Rogers
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I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much taken away from us during slavery, so the 60s gave us a chance, because of the civil rights movement, to kind of re-examine and make some sort of formal connection to our African-ness.
Herbie Hancock
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Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.
David Biespiel
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Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.
Stephen Covey