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“As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege”

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I've never had anything as formal as vocal lessons.

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There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.

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“Mysteries are facts that haven't been formalized.”

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The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends.

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