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«My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.»
«Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship or statesmanship to a formula.»
«I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace.»
Author: James Conrad | About: Mankind, Peace | Keywords: formula
«The catch phrase positively rejoices in being a formula, an accepted gambit, a ready-made reaction.»
«Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.»
Author: Sam Ewing | About: Doing Your Best | Keywords: formula
«There is no easy formula for determining right and wrong livelihood, but it is essential to keep the question alive. To return the sense of dignity and honor to manhood, we have to stop pretending that we can make a living at something that is trivial or destructive and still have sense of legitimate self-worth. A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.»
«I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen.»
«SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent. (See LOGIC.)»
«There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving-by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.»
«Religion is nothing if it be not the vital act by which the entire mind seeks to save itself by clinging to the principle from which it draws its life. This act is prayer, by which term I understand no vain exercise of words, no mere repetition of certain sacred formula, but the very movement itself of the soul, putting itself in a personal relation of contact with the mysterious power of which it feels the presence -- it may be even before it has a name by which to call it.»

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