Eugene Wigner Quotes
... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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Life is a thread that someone entangled.
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Kinchit nahin bhaybhit main, Kartavya path par jo bhi mile, Yeh bhi sahi woh bhi sahiEnglish translation:I am not afraid of defeat and victory, whatever comes my way of duty, I will accept it, because this is true and that is true.
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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one – particularly if he plays golf, which he usually does.
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For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. … I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people.
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I have carried the burden of being a role model for some time. And that's great. The body of work I've done has afforded me that opportunity.
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First-round matches are always tough.
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Who's to say we can't have many loves and many identities? we can hold more in our heads than we think.
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For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
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Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.
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At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose.
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... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.
