Donald Knuth Quotes
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Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.
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I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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For some reason, people with comedy, any time they can detect a pattern, it kind of freaks them out. 'Those guys are always together!' Yeah, they're a comedy team. Anything they can recognize as a pattern they think is a hole.
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I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe.
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I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.
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The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don't put off the enjoyment of the everyday for some future goal.
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I had a hit talk show. I just wasn't working for the right people.
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Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
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I attended Amherst College from 1951 to 1955. The first two years were a revelation. There were innumerable exchanges with brilliant classmates, among them the playwright Ralph Allen, the classics scholar Robert Fagles, and the composer Michael Sahl.
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The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight; she may pass through her fiery furnace, but Christ is in the midst of the flame with her.
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The Democrats complain about the Republican base being nuts … The nuts are their entire party … They're always accusing us of repressing their speech. I say let's do it. Let's repress them. … Frankly, I'm not a big fan of the First Amendment.
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The Internet has given us 10 or 15 new styles of communication: long messages like blogging, and then short messages like texting and tweeting. I see it all as part of an expanding array of linguistic possibilities.
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Electric cars are really very cool. Air-source heat pumps are great.
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You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.
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Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.
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Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.
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There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.
