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«Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.»
«In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory»
«Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.»
«It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.»
«Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.»
«In this century, when evil men plot chemical, biological and nuclear terror, a policy of appeasement could bring destruction of a kind never before seen on this earth. Terrorists and terrorist states do not reveal these threats with fair notice in formal declarations. And responding to such enemies only after they have struck first is not self defense. It is suicide. The security of the world requires disarming Saddam Hussein now.»
«Mere formal worship or mechanical routine performance of rituals cannot induce God to recite in the heart.»
«I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.»
«Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.»
«God is better served in resisting a Temptation to Evil, than in many formal Prayers.»

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