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Belonging to or constituting the form or essence of a thing




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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. - Walt Disney

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final. - Hypatia

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. - Jim Rohn

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. - George Washington

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Albert Einstein

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.' - Neil deGrasse Tyson

I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get together for a formal family photograph. - Elliott Erwitt

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession. - Alberto Giacometti

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