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The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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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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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

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Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

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A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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During the 1970s and 1980s Gibson did use my likeness, but we never signed anything. This new Signature model is the first time we struck a formal written deal for a guitar with my name on it. ↗

— Neal Schon

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But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape. ↗

— Richard Serra

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I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision. ↗

— Eduard Shevardnadze

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Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

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