#formula

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#capitol hill #company #contractors #everybody #formula

A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car. ↗

— Michael Schumacher

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This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#bad #bad idea #beginning #first #formulation

We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board. ↗

— Jada Pinkett Smith

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Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

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I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#certain #deviate #everyone #fail #formula

I truly don't have any formula for the choices I make. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#choices #formula #i #make #truly

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#application #austere #degenerate #doubt #formulas