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.
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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.
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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.
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Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.
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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.
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I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.
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Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.
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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.
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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.
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A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used.
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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.
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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.
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Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.
